E&P has a little blurp about Jef Mallett’s “Frazz” book collection that will be out this August.  The book is titled “99% Perspiration.”

Universal Press has announced that “Pooch Café” will be featured on a series of post cards sent out to pet owners by local groomers and veterinarians prompting owners to regularly take their beloved pets to professional pet care service providers.Pooch Café, created by Paul Gilligan, is one of the latest Universal Press features to join in on the reminder card services.  Already “Adam@Home” and “Heart of the City” promote regular dentist visits while “For Better or For Worse” and “Garfield” cards promote pet care and appointments, according to the Universal press release.

According to the “For Better or For Worse” web site, Lynn Johnston will be attending the Book Expo Canada in Toronto this Sunday (June 11) at 1pm and again on Monday the 12th at noon.  See the Book Expo Canada web site for more information.

In the Category of Best Artist Frank Cho has been nominated (for his work on the Shanna, “The She-Devil” comic book – not “Liberty Meadows”).  In the Best cartoonist category we have John Kovalic with “Dork Tower”; in best Syndicated Strip of Panel we have Aaron McGruder for “The Boondocks” Keith Knight for “The K Chronicles,” Patrick McDonnell for “Mutts,” and lastly Stan Lee and Larry Leiber for “The Amazing Spider-Man.”The awards will be given out on September 9 during the Baltimore Comic-Con.

“Girls and Sports,” created by Andrew Feinstein and Justin Borus, are now available as greeting cards.  The cards are printed though Card Cafe and G&S fans can pick from birthday cards, holiday cards, special occasion cards and sports condolence cards.

Steve was in San Diego when Katrina hit and continue to lives there sending in his cartoons via Kinkos.The video segment of the interview is now available on Google Video.  The whole segment is 25 minutes long – Steve gets the last 10 minutes (skip ahead to 16:50 to avoid the discussion of the problems of urbanites moving to the rural areas and then complaining about the odor of the farms and ranches).

If you were to judge Ed Hall solely by the cartoons in his latest book “Diversions,” you’d quickly group him into the hate-mongering-anti-Bush crowd. What perhaps does not come through in the book is that Ed is a registered Republican and was a “W” voting resident of Florida – the state that put President George […]

For those who subscribe to the Daily Cartoonist’s RSS feeds and perhaps don’t visit the actual site, I’d like to direct your attention to the latest In Focus article….� This latest installment features editorial cartoonist Ed Hall, who I had the privilege of getting to know recently.His book is called “Diversions” and was self published back in March, and I hope you’ll take the time to read about it here on the Daily Cartoonist.

The NCS Southeast Chapter has posted photos of the Reuben Awards weekend.See photos here, here, and here.Thanks, Bruce, for the heads up.

His professionalism and love of the art form will add a new chapter to one of America’s classic continuity strips. I know that the strip’s loyal readers will appreciate Eduardo’s work as much as I do,” says Judge Parker writer Woody Wilson.

Last week I posted that the Great Lakes Chapter of NCS has posted photos of their excursion to Chicago.  Craig Boldman, the current chairperson for the chapter writes into remind me (thus you) that the photos are being updated every day and that they have enough for several weeks.

Mike Jantze who now maintains his comic strip “The Norm” online has posted a notice to subscribers that he’s running repeats for the next couple of weeks while he recoups from a back injury.  The Norm resumes on June 19.

Ohio State fans have also been speeding it along — much to the surprise of the creative team that’s been milking the same three jokes for 28 years.”The use of ‘wolverine’ in the Garfield comic strip was not in reference to the Michigan fans or the mascot,” says a comically sincere response to MSU zealot Bob Nelson of Lansing.Nelson already figured that out, “but it will be a long time,” he promises, “before the U-M Wolverines see the last of this particular cartoon.””Garfield” debuted in 1978 and appears in 2,600 newspapers worldwide, making it one of the most successful comic strips on Earth….  At which point Garfield thinks, “Loser.”Nelson, 55, oversees a club called SPAR10 PL8S and a Web site, www.CQQL.net/msu.htm, devoted to vanity license plates that praise the Green and White or pillory the Maize and Blue.He liked the juxtaposition of “wolverine” and “loser” so much that he dropped a thank-you note to Davis — who, for the record, went to Ball State.

The Cincinnati Enquirer is celebrating 30 with Jim Borgman as their editorial cartoonist.  To commemorate, they’ve posted a Q&A with Jim, several congratulatory cartoons from fellow cartoonists (includng Dave Coverly, Jim Davis, Mike Luckovich, Marshall Ramsey, Jerry Scott, Jeff Stahler, Lynn & Rod Johnston), a video of Jim at work re-drawing the winning cartoon from the contest, a slideshow of 9 of his most favorite cartoons, caricatures of the local politicians he’s skewered over the years, and finally some of the cartoon contest runner ups.

On Brian Anderson’s web site, he alerting his fans that the Times-Union is voting whether to keep the “Dog Eat Doug” comic a part of their line up….  Fans can go to the link above and scroll down a bit and cast their vote.