A Cartooning Menagerie
Small Newspapers and Freelance Cartoonists Small Market Sports © Bill Charbonneau Darren Johnson on getting cartoons for small newspapers: Still,…
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Hey Kids! Comics! Horn Of Plenty
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
Cartoonist Chronicles
Recent (and not-so-recent) articles on comic and cartoon history. God’s Man, A Novel in Woodcuts by Lynn Ward This is…
Comic and Cartooning News Items
© King Features Syndicate Hägar the Horrible is slated for prime time animation. From Deadline: Hägar the Horrible is set…
The Conciseness of the One Panel Cartoon
“A Wealth of Pigeons” by Harry Bliss and Steve Martin will soon be released. [Steve] Martin, who collaborate[s] with New…
Comic Strips: Recent News and Revues
November 7 Cartooning Workshop for Beginners with Rick Stromoski art © Rick Stromoski Learn how to draw cartoon characters and…
Doonesbury at 50
It was October 1970 and a few newspapers were willing to take a chance on a new comic strip about…
Cartoonists on Parade
Hitpig © Aniventure Hitpig Limited Berkeley Breathed‘s newest project moves closer to production. Animation Magazine: Aniventure has revealed the voice…
Books 2020
The book business is seeing a better year, as Publishers Weekly reports. A number of big summer bestsellers, a surge…
CSotD: Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
Steve Brodner (Ind) starts us off with the State of the Disunion. It’s a touchy situation, because, on the one…
Rare Schulz Peanuts Drawing Rediscovered?
Publisher Nat Gertler is a go-to guy for Peanuts trivia. He recently published a new edition of Miss Caroline, and…
Hey Kids! Comics! Autumn Almanac
Macanudo © Liniers, distributed by King Features Syndicate Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October…
Robb Armstrong Goes Home Again
October 2, 1989. What better way to celebrate 31 years of JumpStart than to issue a 30th Anniversary book. The…
Jerry Craft – Class Act
Jerry Craft’s middle-grade graphic novel New Kid broke new ground in more ways than one: it was the first graphic…
Dog Man: Grime and Punishment debuts at #1
With a five million copy print run, the newest Dav Pilkey book Dog Man: Grime and Punishment debuted as the…