» E&P reports that another couple of Charles Schulz original Peanut strips have sold at auction for a combined $115,269. The first strip dated June 3, 1962 is a Sunday featuring a kite-flying scene and it sold for $79,100 and the second is a daily featuring Snoopy dated January 11, 1964 which sold for $36,160. […]
Akron Beacon Journal editorial cartoonist Chip Bok will be the featured speaker at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center this Thursday night in conjunction with their The Golden Age of American Political Cartoons exhibit that ends on Sunday. Chip’s speech is entitled, “A Cartoonist’s Life or ‘Is that ALL you do?’.” The exhibit is described […]
These news items have been stacking up. Here are the posted/known comic page changes for the last two weeks. The Yankton Press & Dakotan went looking to replace two strips and decided to pick up four instead. New strips include Baby Blues, Mother Goose and Grimm, Dick Tracy, and Bizarro. Leaving the paper due to […]
Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock, IL officially closed yesterday with a closing ceremony. The museum announced earlier this year that it would be closing its doors due to financial reasons. Gould, who lived in Woodstock for much of his life, started drawing the Dick Tracy comic in 1931 and continued to do it […]