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A roundup of cartoon and comic items finally being posted featuring Harry Bliss and You Can Never Die, Paul Kirchner and the bus, Jeff Kinney and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the disassembly of Garry B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury, the editorial cartoons of The Simi Valley Acorn that are not editorial cartoons, and Heritage Auction is looking for comic art specialists.
Harry Bliss interviewed
We’re getting an intimate look at the thoughts of a famous cartoonist.
You’ve likely seen Harry Bliss’ work, like his cartoons on the cover of the New Yorker Magazine or in your local newspaper. He’s drawn a lot– an estimated 6,000 cartoons.
But Bliss is also a best-selling author. Now, he’s out with a new graphic memoir called “You Can Never Die.” He calls it sad and funny. It focuses on the death of his beloved dog.
Darren Perron interviews cartoonist Harry Bliss about his new book You Can Never Die.
Bliss also has an interesting connection to Vermont and New Hampshire. You can learn about that and more Sunday morning at 11:30 a.m. on “You Can Quote Me” on WCAX.
>The half hour program for April 27 has not yet at this writing been uploaded to the WCAX website<
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, and First Book
A lot has happened in the 18 years since the first “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” There has been a pandemic, huge jumps in advanced technology and new even popes. Through it all, “Wimpy Kid” main character Greg Heffley has remained perpetually sardonic, perpetually a middle schooler.
Readers have had a new “Wimpy Kid” book (sometimes two) to look forward to every year since the original published in 2007. Now, in the months leading up to “Partypooper,” the series’ 20th installment, author Jeff Kinney has something up his sleeve.
Kinney shared exclusively with USA TODAY that he’s gifting 20,000 books a month until he hits 160,000 total to kids across the country in partnership with the nonprofit First Book.
Cartoonist Jeff Kinney, publisher Abrams Books, and nonprofit First Book are joining forces to distribute thousands of book to underserved communities. Clare Mulroy at USA Today has the story.
The Bus by Paul Kirchner
Before we leave books let’s note that volume three of Paul Kirchner’s The Bus will be released next month and to promote that edition Tanibis Editions has made volume one available for free on the world wide web.
And on the subject of comic strip strangeness…
Today’s Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau rejected the regular nine panel grid for a large middle panel. In the past GoComics and the Doonesbury homepage would post the comic strip in half page fashion, but today they both cut and pasted the strip so as to post it in the tabloid format.
So here is the half page Doonesbury without the large center panel chopped up:
Oddities Department
The Simi Valley Acorn publishes King Features Weekly Service comic strips and panels as “Editorial Cartoon” even though KFWS offers editorial cartoons as part of their catalog.
Help Wanted – Cataloguer – Comics & Comic Art
Dallas-based Heritage Auction has a number of employment opportunities available. Among those listed is one as a Cataloguer in their Comics & Comic Art division. Here is the summary of the job:
Responsible for cataloging consignments of comic books, original comic book art, and comic book-related memorabilia and providing an expert opinion of these items to consignors, bidders, the public in general, and associates in other auction venues.
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