Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County, Outland, and Opus is coming out with a new children’s book called Mars Needs Moms and will be promoting the book at various locations around the country. Here are the dates and times so far: Friday, May 4th, 7pm, Willow Book & Caf, 279 Great Road, Acton, MA 01720 […]
Bill Griffith uses his Zippy the Pinhead comic to pay tribute to Jay Kennedy who died last month while vacationing in Costa Rica. On a Zippy related note, Bill will be speaking at Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus according to E&P. His topic: “Up from the Underground with Zippy: 38 Years and Still Climbing.”
I enjoyed this article by Stew Rieckman, executive editor of The Northwestern (Oshkosh WI), who related his readership’s response after he gave a local cartoonist a 30 day trial run on the funny pages – more or less to be a nice guy. His readership became verbally abusive when the new strip took Crankshaft’s place. […]