Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2020 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. DC Goes to War Big Nate Stays Classy Scary Godmother Omnibus Speed Bump: A 25th Anniversary Collection The Tea Dragon Society (paperback) Jake…
If Queen Victoria could write 2,500 words a day, the least you can do is read that much. above Tom Gauld cartoon from The Guardian Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2020 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Addams’ Apple: The New York Cartoons of Charles Addams Ed Leffingwell’s Little Joe by Harold Gray Nat Enough …
In 2019, more Americans went to the library than to the movies. A Coronavirus Library Update from Publishers Marketplace: Overdrive tells libraries it is “assembling a series of digital content options to respond to the challenges your communities are facing.” For academic libraries and customers, Proquest issued a list of over 50 publishers that have…
Seems Dennis is right: I love books. The problem is that my book-buying habit outpaces my ability to read them. This leads to FOMO and occasional pangs of guilt over the unread volumes spilling across my shelves. Sound familiar? But it’s possible this guilt is entirely misplaced. According to statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb, these unread…
Language experts have been studying the act of reading comics and its effect on the brain, and they have arrived to the conclusion that reading comic books makes you smarter. Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic…
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. LOAC Essentials Volume 14: Barney Google, 1928 Anatomy of Authors Rugrats: The Newspaper Strips Choke Gasp! The Best…
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Mac Raboy: Master of the Comics The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1916-1918 Tales From the Trumpster Fire:…
So many releases we had to make two posts. Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea. The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and…
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea. SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made The Funnies Funny If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em The World is Askew…
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea. Snug Harbor Stories: A Wallace the Brave Collection! Silly Symphonies Volume 4: The Complete Disney Classics 1942-1945 (the last volume) …
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Big Orange Football Coloring Book Charles M. Schulz’s Linus A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of…
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library, Vol. 3 Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Volume 26 American Comic…
Matt Wuerker and Ann Telnaes, in association with Jenny Robb and Lucy Caswell, are going to try put together a small book/bookazine/catalogue based on the current Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and The First Amendment exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. Matt is asking for some help in gathering material for the…
Essentials is a series from IDW Publishing through their Library of American Comics imprint. These books are 4.4 inches high and 11.5 inches long and ?1.2 inches thick, printing one daily strip per page. The books more or less cover an entire year. And for this Independence Week IDW is offering them at a 25%…