Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. The Great Pencil Quest Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 6: 1940 – The Time of Cholera Poor Helpless Comics!: The…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Unsupervised: A Crabgrass Comics Adventure Out of Line: The Graphic Humor of D. Watson How to Make Money Writing for Comics Magazines (new…
Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell has written and illustrated a love letter to the comic books of his youth. “The Super Hero’s Journey is a fantastical dream-memory of my childhood infatuation with comic books, and a tale of the spiritual inner journey of reconnecting to the “super being” in us all. The book is a love…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Got a few books released in August missed on the mid-August listing. So… Arnold: The Complete Collection Volume 1 The Cambridge Companion to…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Jack Kent: The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of a Comic Storyteller Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe Three Rocks:…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator! Big Nate: No Worries!: Two Books in One THIS IS IT,…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Had this in the June basket, apparently came out a couple months ago: History of Press Graphics, 1819-1921 (preview) Pearls Seeks Enlightenment You’re…
Too many May releases are surfacing since the May Hey Kids! Comics! post earlier this month to wedge into the June entry next month, so an addendum. Below are some (more) comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Absent from the April accounting: Now to the May releases… Another absentee from the April annals: A highlight of the May releases:
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Missed in March – – Additional April arrivals – –
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. We begin our March list of books with one we missed in February. UVA Press is happy to announce the publication of a…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Backlist: Missed in January opening image: Shrimp & Grits by Andy Marlette; © Creators Syndicate
Heart to Heart A Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet By the Dalai Lama, illustrated by Patrick McDonnell A year and a half ago Patrick McDonnell took an extended vacation from his Mutts comic strip to collaborate with the Dali Lama; that project reaches bookstores on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 (available for…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2023 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. A couple late listings from last month: Back to New Year new books. top image Peanuts by Charles Schulz © Peanuts…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. It appears a few books were missed last month so we’ll start with November releases. The Art of C.C. Beck:…