Industry news for the professional cartoonist
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%…
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Prince Valiant Vol. 19 1973-1974 by Hal Foster Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County Artist’s Edition The Blue Day Book Illustrated Edition:…
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972 (Vol. 11) Paperback Prince Valiant Vol. 19 1973-1974 30 Years Of Matt Superman:…
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) The Star of the Telegram: The Cartoons of Harold Maples Johnny Hazard The Newspaper Dailies Volume Seven: 1954-1956 Thelwell’s Pony…
above: Macanudo by Liniers Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Laptops Are So Warm: An Ask a Cat Collection Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of…
above: Liò by Mark Tatulli Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Just Fore Laughs Lucy The Comics Journal #303 (“bookazine”) The Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 8,…
Here are some books scheduled for January 2019 release. Images and links to Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Peanuts Every Sunday Box Set Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union Complete Chester Gould Dick Tracy Volume 25 The Best of Alex 2018…
Books due to be released December 2018. Library of American Comcs Volume 12: Baron Bean, 1918 My First 100 Peanuts Words boardbook Superman: The Silver Age Sundays, Vol. 1: 1959 – 1963 Garfield Nutty as a Fruitcake: His 66th Book …
The following are some comic strip related books released or scheduled to be released in November (though a few were released earlier in October to comic book stores before book stores got them). Links lead (mostly) to the books’ Amazon pages. King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features…
The following are some comic strip related books released or scheduled to be released in October. Links lead to the books’ Amazon page. Pearls Takes a Wrong Turn: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury Mother Is Coming: A FoxTrot Collection Adult Time: A Baby Blues Collection Dance Like Everybody’s Watching!: A Zits…
I borrowed today’s headline from an old website run by the late Bill Bickel in which he used to mock comic strips for not coming up to his standards. It was one of a couple of similar sites that motivated me to launch Comic Strip of the Day in 2010, because I thought it better…
Bizarro (KFS) strikes a nostalgic note, intentionally or not. I don’t think of Easter eggs as empty shells, but then I don’t think of them as this elaborately decorated, except in Eastern Europe where I doubt pysanky are mixed in with the candy. But it did remind me of being a tiny tot some 70…
So earlier today Mike Peterson brought up trivia contests. Mike said: I gave up on trivia contests after losing a squeaker because I said Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake within a single nation’s boundaries. They wanted Lake Superior, which has a greater surface area but contains less water and is sure not within…
A door panel blew out on a Boeing jet the other day. Perhaps you heard. Matt Pritchett came up with a funny cartoon about it. Many other people also drew cartoons about it. The most interesting part of the whole thing, as far as I was concerned, was how much of a non-event it turned…
In what is turning into an annual event The Anchorage Daily News (ADN) has changed the make up of the comics it carries. This time its only their Sunday comics and this time it only involves cuts, not replacements. The paper is reducing the the number of Sunday sections from four to two and moving…