Walt Carr Cartoons for “Just Us”
“Just Us!” counts as one African American’s perspective on the condition of Blacks in America and the 193-page book spotlights…
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Graphic Books Return to NY Times Best Seller List
The New York Times sent out a notice today that the graphic books best seller list will be returning to…
Updates…Updates…Updates
Updating some recent posts. The Knight Life Ends. Keith Knight uses The K Chronicles to confirm the ending of…
Reincarnation Stories by Kim Deitch is (P)reviewed
The fun begins innocently enough: after eye surgery, Deitch had to keep his eyes closed and his head turned down…
CSotD: Book Nook
A small nook — only three books — but you wouldn’t like a large nook and I’m not sure there’s…
Hey Kids! Comics! A Good Harvest Moon Crop
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
It’s a Cartoonist’s Life for Lincoln Peirce
Lincoln Peirce, the creator of the “Big Nate” comic strip, spoke in front of a sold-out crowd at One Longfellow…
Dave Astor’s E&P Syndicate News Archives
For 25 years, from 1983 to 2008, David Astor reported on the newspaper syndicates for Editor & Publisher. Alan…
Charles Santore – RIP
Famed Illustrator Charles Santore has passed away. Charles Santore March 16, 1935 – August 11, 2019 From the Philadelphia…
The Nexus of Comic Books and Comic Strips
By the 1980s I had pretty much given up on superhero comic books, preferring non-spandex adventure, western, detective, and…
Art Spiegelman Refers to Trump as “Orange Skull” – Marvel Comics Not Happy
For some reason, maybe the heavy Jewish influence on early comic books, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman was contracted to…
Three Rocks, The Ernie Bushmiller Story – A Sneak Peek at Bill Griffith’s Graphic Biography
Bill Giffith has a few obsessions in his life. There is his lifelong preoccupation with observing human beings and commenting…
Hey Kids! Comics! Back to School Books
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon (though…
Tariff-ic Books and Magazines
With one exception, to please his evangelical base (“America’s Christian publishers no longer have to render to Caesar an…
Randall Munroe Gives Us “How To” Advice
Take this quandary from Munroe’s latest book, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (Riverhead, Sept.): “How to…