The National Cartoonists Society has discovered that two awards were given out erroneously last Saturday at the Reubens banquet in Philadelphia. From NCS President Bill Morrison’s note to the membership: When compiling the names of the winners to send to our award manufacturer, I accidentally took the names for the four online voting categories (Newspaper […]
Mental Floss has a story on an upcoming auction at Swann Auction Galleries of Charles Schulz’s original “Peanuts” art. One Sunday from 1970 is estimated expected to reach $30,000. http://mentalfloss.com/article/545662/original-peanuts-comic-strip-auction-block-estimated-sell-30000 (photo Swannn Auction Galleries)
Lee Holley 1932 – 2018 Lee Holley died earlier this year. Comics historian R. C. Harvey has done a career-spanning obituary for The Comics Journal.
It’s an article from last year, but as his new album releases today, a reminder that Calvin & Hobbes had an important influence on Josh Tillman. From the Exclaim.ca article: “I was so much like Calvin when I was a kid. Down to, like, really intense anthropomorphizing toys and stuff. I was sort of depressed […]