Hey Kids! Comics! Read Comics, Get Smarter
Language experts have been studying the act of reading comics and its effect on the brain, and they have arrived…
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Book Stuff … And So It Goes
“All this happened, more or less.” Publishers Weekly is reporting: Indie graphic novel house Boom! Studios announced plans to…
Mistakes Were Made (but not by Stephan Pastis)
Mistakes Were Made, the first Timmy Failure book by Stephan Pastis, has been adapted to the moving picture medium and…
Webster’s Bridge (1924) – New Paperback Edition
Nat Gertler and About Comics have reissued the 1924 Webster’s Bridge book, originally published by Frederick A. Stokes. Bleeding Cool…
The Fall of British Publishing
It is the end of an era for one of the most famous names in book publishing. Penguin is being…
NCS Divisional Reuben Awards 2019 Call for Entries
December 20, 2019 Letter from the National Cartoonists Society calling for submissions. Note that membership is not a requirement to…
Clay Jones – A Trumpster Fire
A 45 minute podcast interview with political cartoonist Clay Jones while on his book tout. Clay talks of his shift…
Mo Willems Interview – It’s A Biggie
Mo Willems is the winner of multiple Caldecott Awards. His kids books are very popular. The other week I took…
Hey Kids! Comics! For Under the Tree
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
$1 Million for Berni Wrightson’s Frankenstein
Berni Wrightson‘s original art for the wraparound cover to his illustrated edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for Marvel in 1983…
Mark Evanier on Tariffs and Pogo Volume Six
We reported on the tariffs a few months ago. Now the effects are hitting home as the most important American…
Rugrats: The (Complete) Newspaper Strips
Rugrats: The Newspaper Strips Volume One is coming next week. Though what it will look like I couldn’t tell you….
Thurber and Company
The 125th anniversary of James Thurber’s birth arrives on Sunday, December 8, and this year fans of the legendary humorist…
Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library – Tarzan
As long as I’m going off-topic of my self-imposed rules… The Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library For the first time,…
A Cornucopia of Comic News Items
The Improbable Remains On his How To book tour Randall Munroe goes north to Alaska. The Juneau Empire reports on…