Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2024 release.Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Nancy & Sluggo’s Guide to Life by Ernie Bushmiller This collection of Bushmiller’s Nancy brings together a selection from the beloved […]
Man Martin, author and cartoonist, has made a name for himself as one of the great illustrators of the human condition as it concerns how we treat one another – with a specialty in Biblical foibles – now has a new project. Unfortunately that means a brief suspension of his Man Overboard comic strip. Today […]
Rick Stromoski, Lynn Johnston, Raina Telgemeier, and Bob Fingerman. Rick Stromoski, the cartoonist of Soup to Nuts and Andrew’s Journal fame, returns with a second book, in what can only be called a series now, about the adventures of Schnozzer & Tatertoes, a pair of anthropomorphic dogs. Schnozzer is a level-headed, intelligent schnauzer who keeps […]
Occasionally The Daily Cartoonist goes off-trail with some tenuous links to newspaper comics and cartoons… Shaenon K. Garrity at Publishers Weekly checks into WebToons and webcomics getting hard copy editions. Forget swiping right. Online comics are racking up readers, and the test of success is how far readers will scroll on down. As demand for […]
Since it’s release in the Summer of 2023 The Talk by Darrin Bell has garnered nothing but praise. Lately it has been making the end of the year lists. Named one of Publishers Weekly‘s Top Ten Best Books of 2023. …a powerful and moving portrait of the experiences of racism across generations One of TIME […]
David Harper from 2019: I’ve discovered many comics I love through the Anchorage Public Library’s incredible comic collection, as they have an immense assortment of manga, hugely popular titles like Saga and The Walking Dead, comics from the wider European continent like Blacksad and The Incal, indie fare like Duncan the Wonder Dog and Giant Days, […]
Where I’m Coming From, The Buildings are Barking, Funny Things, Poor Helpless Comics!, The Talk, The He-Man Effect, You’re Not A Real Parent Until…, Thorn, and Gladys Parker are reviewed by various sites. Following are some book reviews of recently released or forthcoming books of interest. [F]or many decades, the comics section was a little […]
A personal chuckle from The Other Coast (Creators), because he’s right that dog owners are more observant of the scoop laws than other users seem to be of the littering laws. There are, of course, times when a dog poops while the owner is engaged in conversation and doesn’t notice, though when there’s a group, […]
Darrin Bell plays with three of his young children as the family heads to the dinner table. As they sit to eat, though, Bell’s 6-year-old son looks up and asks out of curiosity: “Who’s George Floyd?” It is 2020, and Bell and his wife, Makeda, have wondered for several years when to have “the talk” […]
Brian Hibbs at Comics Beat does a deep dive into the 2022 NPD Book Scan Report. Ludicrously, this is the twentieth annual report of something that is hard to exactly perceive and understand: the size and shape of the sales of graphic novels and trade paperbacks through the book store market, as seen through the […]
A few years back The Daily Cartoonist reported Darrin Bell had signed a two book deal with Henry Holt & Company. Now three years later the first book is being released. From the Publishers Weekly review: … Later, after Bell’s white mother prohibited him from playing outside with a water gun, she attempted “the talk,” […]
Washington, D.C. – A Search for the Source The Library of Congress found the cartoonist who created it (Paul Gregg) and found the newspaper it probably appeared in (The Denver Post) but it still looking for confirmation of the date (ca. early 1933). This mystery centered on an image of a political cartoon found online. […]
Once again a local Republican website has posted Woody Harrington‘s image equating The Grand Old Party with the Ku Klux Klan. It is unknown how long the image remained on the opening page. The Roanoke Times reports: A familiar Republican Party mascot pictured on the Patrick County GOP website hid Ku Klux Klan imagery […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. We start with a set missed this past Summer. Rocky and Bullwinkle: The Complete Newspaper Comic Strip Collection – Volume 1 […]
According to Larson, “I’ve always thought the word cow was funny, and cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.” © Gary Larson Screen Rant delves into Gary Larson‘s background to try find Why The Far Side Comics Are So Obsessed With Cows. It was a back injury […]