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Alternative Comics » Dan Perkins (aka Tom Tomorrow) has published a children’s book entitled “The Very Silly Mayor” which he describes as a updated American The Emperor’s New Clothes story. Comic strips » As noted before, John McPherson will be the guest artist at the M&T Bank Harvest of the Arts Festival in Carlisle (PA) […]
Nevin Martell’s book “Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip” is now out. You can watch an interview he did for “Let’s talk Live,” read a less than impressed review from the AV Club, or a more favorable review that I did back in August. I […]
This year’s Cartoons & Cocktails 2009 will be held on October 22 in Washington D.C. with this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Breen as the honored guest. The annual fundraiser supports Young D.C., a independant metro monthly paper that teams professional journalists with local aspiring teens, and the Cartoonists Rights Network International which helps cartoonists […]
Wicomico County schools have removed Akira Toriyama’s “Dragon Ball” series of graphic novels from their elementary schools after a city councilman received a complaint from a mother of a nine-year-old. Upon review of the book, they discovered the book contained several depictions of nudity and sexual innuendo. Mark Thompson, president of the county school board, […]
A big thanks to the 27 individuals (24 of whom are listed below) who contributed to The Daily Cartoonist yesterday. Based on last years first attempt at an NPR style fund-drive, I expected the number of donations to drop off substantially, but I’m once again humbled by those that are making a strong statement of […]
Alternative cartoonist Peter Bagge will teach a course on writing graphic novels next quarter at Seattle University. Peter, who’s perhaps best known for his comic series “Hate,” will center the course on the history of comics and the nuts and bolts of writing a graphic novel.