Jerry Beck crowns Worst comic strip ever made
Jerry Beck of Cartoon Brew has crowned Uncle Funny Bunny and Chumpy by Jack Pierce the worst comic strip ever….
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DC Comics creates The Spirit collection
DC Comics will publish a reprinting of the 12-year run of The Spirit that ran as an newspaper supplement between…
Library receives grant for original cartoon art
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), Syracuse University Library has been awarded a grant of $79,440 by the National Historical…
Harvey Comics exhibit to open in San Francisco
The San Francisco based Cartoon Art Museum will open an exhibit starting June 28 featuring “a visual history of one…
Little Orphan Annie collection due out this month
IDW will be releasing “The Complete Little Orphan Annie, Vol. 1″ this month (June 11). This first volume is a…
News Briefs for June 2, 2008
» E&P reports that another couple of Charles Schulz original Peanut strips have sold at auction for a combined $115,269….
Dick Tracy Museum is now closed
Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock, IL officially closed yesterday with a closing ceremony. The museum announced earlier this…
Mel Casson passes away at age 87
Mel Casson, writer and illustrator for the Redeye comic strip passed away last week at the age of 87 of…
ToonSeum presents Children in Cartoons and Comics
The Pittsburg based ToonSeum will open a new exhibit entitled “Just Kidding Around: Children in Cartoons and Comics” on June…
Mort Gerberg: A career of diversification
Notes taken live during Mort Gerberg’s presentation: When Mort began his career, he was told cartooning was a dying art,…
Mort Walker talks about IMCA, OSU CRL merger
` Dave Astor has interviewed Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker about the announcement yesterday that his International Museum of Cartoon…
NPR talks about Charlie Brown character
NPR ran an interesting piece on the resilience and lovability of Charles Schulz’ character Charlie Brown yesterday They explain how…
News Briefs for May 12, 2008
» Jack Bender, current cartoonist on Alley Oop will be attending this year’s national Tarzan convention in Waterloo, IA this…
Get a first year Garfield original for $5k
Ted Dawson over at “Three Men in a Tub” blog reports that an original Garfield comic strip is for sale…
Two Peanuts cartoons auctioned for $106,270
Two original Peanuts comics strips were auctioned off at Philip Weiss Auctions, according to E&P, for a combined total of…