News Briefs for April 16, 2008
» Stacy Curtis has two new books from the Meghan Rose series that he illustrated. » The “Inside Peanuts: The…
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News Briefs for April 11, 2008
» The Yale Daily News has a history of how Garry Trudeau started in the comics. Interesting, the path started…
Review: Willie & Joe The World War II Years
Tom Spurgeon has posted a favorable review of Bill Mauldin’s Willie & Joe collection created by Fantagraphics. Reading these comics…
Mutt & Jeff celebrates 100 years
Mutt & Jeff have just crossed over the centurion mark for a comic strip. The original feature by Bud Fisher…
Archived photos of legendary cartoonists
A Swedish cartoonist/blogger who has posted photos of some of the cartooning industry’s legendary cartoonists. Names like: Al Capp, Otto…
Second volume of Terry and the Pirates released
E&P reports that the second volume of the Milton Caniff’s classic Terry and the Pirates collection has been released. This…
Beetle Bailey Collection to be released
Checker Book Publishing has teamed up with King Features to publish an early Beetle Bailey collection. The first book is…
Early gag panels by legendary comic strip creators posted
Mike Lynch has dug up and posted a few early magazine gag panels that were published by B.C. creator Johnny…
Fourth Watterson archived editorial cartoon posted
With the demise of the Cincinnati Post, Matt Tauber has gone through the microfilm archives and pulled out some of…
US News & World Report examines editorial cartoonists’ influence
US News & World Report has an interesting report on the history of the impact of editorial cartoonists on presidential…
Rick O’Shay cartoonists gets exhibit
Stan Lynde’s Rick O’Shay ran in a hundred papers from 1958 to 1977. The Montana native’s artwork is now on…
News Briefs for February 27, 2008
» Ziggy cartoonist Tom Wilson was interviewed by The Naperville Sun about making a career as an artist. » The…
Jackie Ormes biographer interviewed by Ann Arbor News
A while back I told you about a new book about Jackie Ormes, one of the first African-American female editorial…
New Herblock exhibit opens in D.C.
A new exhibit featuring the work of Herblock will open up this spring at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for…
Bill Mauldin Biography excerpt posted
Todd A. DePastino has written a biography of famed WWII cartoonist Bill Mauldin. The book is called “Bill Mauldin: A…