Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker remembers Doug Marlette five years after his untimely death in an auto accident in Mississippi in 2007. I know I speak for dozens of close friends and family members ? and even a good number of enemies ? when I say that Marlette was that rare creature who could size […]
From Tom Richmond’s blog comes news that MAD Magazine is releasing a 60th anniversary collection due out in October. The book will be 256 pages that includes 12 classic front covers, Spy vs. Spy, Al Jaffee’s MAD Fold-in, Sergio Aragones’ A MAD Look At…, David Berg’s The Lighter Side of…, Outrageous artwork of Don Martin […]
Robot6 reports that Neil Gaiman has signed a 5 book deal with HarperCollins Children’s Books. One of the five, Fortunately, the Milk, will be illustrated by Eisner winning illustrator Skottie Young. Dave McKean was at one point set to illustrate Fortunately, the Milk, which Gaiman referred to last fall as “a very silly children’s book” […]
Best known for his children’s books, Theodor Seuss Geisel or Dr. Seuss, was an editorial cartoonist for two years (1941-1943) for the short-lived “PM” newspaper in New York City. The Jewish Journal has a write-up about the round-up of Jews in France 70 years ago this month and Seuss’ editorial cartooning reaction. In one important […]