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As you may not have noticed, the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks falls on a Sunday and so more than 90 Sunday strip cartoonists will be marking the occasion.
The comics, each produced independently by the artists, will be featured in a separate, full-color pullout section and online the same day at www.cartoonistsremember911.com. Afterward, exhibits on the strips are planned for the Newseum in Washington, San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, the Toonseum in Pittsburgh and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York.
The tone of the strips are varied, said Brendan Burford, comics editor at King Features Syndicate, with some taking a sentimental tack, while others may try to make a reader laugh.
”After 9/11, the cartoonists organized and did a series of message strips around Thanksgiving Weekend … but it was also reflective and sympathetic to everyone who suffered,“ he said.
For a look back at how cartoonists covered the event when it happened,
this Onion piece might be of interest.
Long, long delayed by difficulties finding the source materials, volume one of Fantagraphics long awaited reprinting of Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder 
by Walt Kelly is finally at the printers, Mark Evanier announces:
My friend, the lovely Carolyn Kelly, lovingly supervised the loving restoration of her lovely father’s lovely strip and she also did the lovely design of this lovely book and its lovely dust jacket and the lovely imprints under that lovely dust jacket. Sure sounds like a labor of love to me. Not that the contents need any help but the strips are supplemented by a foreword from writer (and friend o’ Walt’s) Jimmy Breslin and essays/annotations by Steve Thompson, R.C. Harvey and myself. If I were you, I’d read all that text stuff after I read the strips themselves about eleven times.
Each volume contains two years of Walt Kelly’s magnum opus. Since the first year started in mid-year, there’s room in the book to also include the pre-syndication Pogo strips he did for The New York Star, a short-lived newspaper for which he worked. This gives you the chance to observe from Day One and watch as it develops steadfastly from a darn good newspaper strip to something a lot better than just “darn good.” Working on this collection, that was my constant thought: “Gee, it just gets better and better, doesn’t it?”
Although it looked whimsical enough, Pogo wasn’t afraid to jab hard on the political foibles of the day, and created such memorable characters as Albert the Alligator, Churhcy La Femme and Mam’selle Hepsibah. If you notice more than a bit of Kelly’s drawing style in Jeff Smith, well it’s no accident. Pogo’s return in a new collection is happy news indeed.
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Tonight, at the Strand Bookstore located at the corner of Twelfth Street and Broadway, Craig Yoe and Patrick McDonnell will discuss the art of George Herriman, focusing on his masterpiece, Krazy Kat. The fun begins at 7 PM!
Craig Yoe, as many of you know, is a comics archeologist, discovering treasures long forgotten or only remembered as myth and legend. Last year, he collected the “Tiger Tea” storyline from Krazy Kat, which was infused with a strong narcotic subtext. Now, in partnership with Patrick McDonnell (with an assist by Bill Watterson), he celebrates the artistic mastery of George Herriman.
Patrick McDonnell is best known for his comic strip, Mutts. McDonnell also wrote one of the earliest “art books” of comics, Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman, way back in 1986 for Abrams. McDonnell’s strips are frequently inspired by comics art, and he was recently awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award at the 2011 Comic-Con International held in San Diego for his service with the Humane Society of the United States and his environmental activism.
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Ah… July….The Fourth, dog days, and… San Diego!
So much good stuff! Bestselling author Christopher Moore writes a graphic novel! Ray Bradbury, Grandmaster, has two classics adapted! Grant Morrison writes about superheroes and religion! Disney and Hitler, together again! Girlie comics from Marvel! “Good Girl” comics from Jim Silke, Doug Sneyd, and Dean Yeagle! Great Women comics from Gail Simone, Colleen Coover, Megan Kelso, Jill Thompson, and Corinne Mucha! (Can’t find female creators on the newsstands? Check the bookshelves!) And lots of masterful work from Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Jim Starlin, and Floyd Gottfredson!
The following is a selection of new comics titles due to be published in June 2011. This list is not comprehensive, just what I’ve discovered browsing the Internet.Below, you’ll find selected titles which caught my interest.If you would like to browse forthcoming graphic novels and related books at your leisure, click here. These are not necessarily titles I will purchase, but which I will definitely look at once they arrive at my local comics shop or bookstore. If you click that link above, you’ll see all the graphic novels at BN.com, sorted by date. Please be advised that publication dates are not set in stone, titles may change, and covers may be altered. Also, your local comics shop might receive copies before your local neighborhood website or library.I consider my tastes to be rather eclectic. If you feel I’ve neglected or slighted a title, publisher, or creator, please feel free to mention it in the comments below. Yes, you may promote your own work, but please include the ISBN for easy searching (and shopping!)
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King Aroo, Volume 2
by Jack Kent
- $ 39.99
- Pub. Date: July 2011
- Publisher: Idea & Design Works, LLC
- Format: Hardcover, 360pp
- ISBN-13: 9781600107825
- ISBN: 1600107826
Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories Archives, Volume 1
by Floyd Gottfredson, Al Taliaferro
- $ 14.99
- Pub. Date: July 2011
- Publisher: Boom! Studios
- Format: Paperback, 160pp
- ISBN-13: 9781608866571
- ISBN: 1608866572
In a change of policy, The New York Times’s venerable Week in Review section will go from running a round-up of editorial cartoons on the topics of the week to specially commissioned work. Among those tapped, Brian McFadden, creator of Big Fat Whale. McFadden is 27 and lives in Massachusetts, giving the section a younger perspective to say the least. McFadden will offer a weekly strip that “that hopefully makes a point or two while also being funny. The strip will cover something topical, but it can be anything from the week’s big story to something that slipped through the news cycle’s cracks. As long as I have something unique and funny to say about it, I can make a comic about it.”
In a statement to Editor & Publisher, Op-Ed page art director Aviva Michaelov said, “There are more terrific cartoonists out there now than ever before. I hope this feature can be a stage to exhibit their talents.”
In a blog post, Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams reveals himself as a male-basher who thinks all men need to be castrated to ensure a smoothly running society because all they want to do is rape and tweet pictures of their junk to co-eds:
The way society is organized at the moment, we have no choice but to blame men for bad behavior. If we allowed men to act like unrestrained horny animals, all hell would break loose. All I’m saying is that society has evolved to keep males in a state of continuous unfulfilled urges, more commonly known as unhappiness. No one planned it that way. Things just drifted in that direction.
…Long term, I think science will come up with a drug that keeps men chemically castrated for as long as they are on it. It sounds bad, but I suspect that if a man loses his urge for sex, he also doesn’t miss it. Men and women would also need a second drug that increases oxytocin levels in couples who want to bond. Copulation will become extinct. Men who want to reproduce will stop taking the castration drug for a week, fill a few jars with sperm for artificial insemination, and go back on the castration pill.
Let me just say that I disagree strongly with Adams. I feel that men have a valuable part to play in society, and I have met many men who act out of noble, brave and even loving impulses. I think their contributions can make for a better, stronger society, and I’m all for men having a say in running things despite their handicaps.
It’s a surprising turn for Adams, who has gotten a lot of much-craved attention for saying idiotic things on the internet and then supporting himself with sock puppets. The upside of Adams continuing attention-getting punditry for his legacy is that now no one talks about what a shit artist he is.
The 2011 Reuben Awards for the best in cartooning and related fields were presented at the annual National Cartoonists Society meeting on Saturday. Richard Thompson beat out Glen Keane and Stephan Pastis for THE Reuben as cartoonist of the year. Jill Thompson won the Comic Book category for BEASTS OF BURDEN, and Joyce Farmer won the graphic novel category for SPECIAL EXITS, while Jeff Parker and Steve Kelley’s DUSTIN won for best comic strip.
Thompson blogged his reaction:
The NCS handed me this last night for which I’m grateful in countless ways, not the least being that I didn’t fall over.
Alan Gardner the whole list of winners:
TELEVISION ANIMATION
Dave Filoni – Supervising Director / Production Designer, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”
FEATURE ANIMATION
Nicolas Marlet, Character Designer, “How to Train Your Dragon”
NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION
Michael McParlane
GAG CARTOONS
Gary McCoy
GREETING CARDS
Jim Benton
NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS
Jeff Parker and Steve Kelley “Dustin”
NEWSPAPER PANEL CARTOONS
Glenn McCoy “Flying McCoys”
MAGAZINE FEATURE/MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION
Anton Emdin
BOOK ILLUSTRATION
Mike Lester “The Butt Book”
EDITORIAL CARTOONS
Gary Varvel
ADVERTISING ILLUSTRATION
Dave Whamond
COMIC BOOKS
Jill Thompson “Beasts of Burden”
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Joyce Farmer “Special Exits”
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Ah… Memorial Day approaches, and with it, summer vacation. Day after day of nothing which must be done, but full of possibilities! Maybe an escape to the air-conditioned refuge of your local library. Perhaps a day spent on the porch, sipping something cold and sinful (I prefer Brown Cows, served in a large ice tea glass). Or maybe hiding away up in a hayloft, or deep in a cool root cellar, where no one can find you. Whatever your preference, there’s nothing like a good book to make you forget the world around you. Below are some suggestions for your summer reading pleasures. (And if you need a nap to avoid the afternoon heat, give your kids something to read. It’ll keep them quiet long enough for you to recharge your batteries.)
The following is a selection of new comics titles due to be published in June 2011. This list is not comprehensive, just what I’ve discovered browsing the Internet. Below, you’ll find selected titles which caught my interest. If you would like to browse forthcoming graphic novels and related books at your leisure, click here. These are not necessarily titles I will purchase, but which I will definitely look at once they arrive at my local comics shop or bookstore.
If you click that link above, you’ll see all the graphic novels at BN.com, sorted by date.
Please be advised that publication dates are not set in stone, titles may change, and covers may be altered. Also, your local comics shop might receive copies before your local neighborhood website or library. I consider my tastes to be rather eclectic. If you feel I’ve neglected or slighted a title, publisher, or creator, please feel free to mention it in the comments below. Yes, you may promote your own work, but please include the ISBN for easy searching (and shopping!)
Disclaimer: I am employed by Barnes & Noble. This and any other posts by me at this site have no official connection to B&N. As always, feel free to send us your PR. Even better, send us some free books!
Deadpool Team-Up
by Cullen Bunn, Tom Fowler (Illustrator), Matteo Scalera (Illustrator), Rob Williams
- $ 19.99
- Pub. Date: June 2011
- Publisher: Marvel Enterprises, Inc.
- Format: Hardcover, 168pp
- ISBN-13: 9780785151395
- ISBN: 0785151397
Captain America: To Serve and Protect
by Mark Waid, Ron Garney (Illustrator), Dale Eaglesham (Illustrator)
- $ 24.99
- Pub. Date: June 2011
- Publisher: Marvel Enterprises, Inc.
- Format: Hardcover, 192pp
- ISBN-13: 9780785150824
- ISBN: 078515082X
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Via Robot 6, word that Heritage is auctioning off an early strip by Charles Schulz that would appear to be part of a developmental period between Lil’ Folks and Peanuts, which launched in 1950.
The previously unknown strip is being offered for sale by a Schulz family friend who was the inspiration for Frieda in the strip.
While its historical interest is high, this strip does show that Schulz had not yet mastered the art of really snappy punchline, at least for this strip. “Laissez faire” refers to a state of action untouched by government regulation or oversight, while the literal French translation is “leave it alone.” Thus it’s a bit hard to parse exactly what this strip means, but someone from the Tea Party should definitely buy it.
Unless…it’s one of those 3eanuts strips that the last panel has been removed from.
Editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe of the Denver Post has won this year’s Pulizter Prize for cartooning. He won the 2011 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition earlier this year so he is on a roll. His home paper reacts here.
A complete list of winners can be found here.
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The following is a selection of new comics titles due to be published in April 2011. This list is not comprehensive, just what I’ve discovered browsing the Internet. Below, you’ll find selected titles which caught my interest. If you would like to browse forthcoming graphic novels and related books at your leisure, click here. These are not necessarily titles I will purchase, but which I will definitely look at once they arrive at my local comics shop or bookstore.
If you click that link above, you’ll see all the graphic novels at BN.com, sorted by date. Lots of graphic novels (and related books) scheduled from May to December. Of course, there will be even more titles added and announced in time for the Holidays! (You might want to use your tax return to buy some bookshelves.)
Please be advised that publication dates are not set in stone, titles may change, and covers may be altered. Also, your local comics shop might receive copies before your local neighborhood website or library. I consider my tastes to be rather eclectic. If you feel I’ve neglected or slighted a title, publisher, or creator, please feel free to mention it in the comments below. Yes, you may promote your own work, but please include the ISBN for easy searching (and shopping!)
Disclaimer: I am employed by Barnes & Noble. This and any other posts by me at this site have no official connection to B&N. As always, feel free to send us your PR. Even better, send us some free books!
Salt Water Taffy: Caldera’s Revenge! Part 1
by Matthew Loux
- $ 5.99
- Pub. Date: April 2011
- Publisher: Oni Press
- Format: Paperback, 72pp
- ISBN-13: 9781934964620
- ISBN: 193496462X
Patrick in A Teddy Bear’s Picnic and Other Stories
by Geoffrey Hayes
- $ 12.95
- Pub. Date: April 2011
- Publisher: Candlewick Press
- Format: Hardcover, 32pp
- Lexile: 0050L
- ISBN-13: 9781935179092
- ISBN: 1935179098
Pepper Penwell and the Land Creature of Monster Lake
by Steph Cherrywell
- $ 14.95
- Pub. Date: April 2011
- Publisher: SLG Publishing
- Format: Paperback, 200pp
- ISBN-13: 9781593622053
- ISBN: 1593622058
Scratch 9, Volume1: Pet Project
by Rob M Worley,Jason T Kruse
Before she was a much admired editor at DC and Vertigo, Joan Hilty was a talented cartoonist, and somehow she managed to keep both running for nearly a decade. She’s just launched JoanHilty.net to showcase all her skills. The site includes new episodes of her strip Bitter Girl, excerpt above.
Archives of Bitter Girl, which Hilty has been drawing since 1998, are on the site. And just as a reminder that there are still printed alternative comic strips (although not many since the lines between traditional and alternative have blurred so much), the strip is running in six LGBT papers.
In the spirit of Cthulhu Family Circus and other great remixes, Jon L. and Chris D. present
Sheen Family Circus.
In case you have been in Shaolin seclusion this week, actor
Charlie Sheen has been on a manic-phase media run with a series of hyperventilated interviews highlighting our new found media ability to watch famous people pathetically and tragically act out right in front of us. As distasteful as it all is…these quotes are comedy gold.
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It’s the first ever Peanuts graphic novel, Charlie Brown!
Last week people were speculating over the announcement that Kaboom! — Boom! Studios new all-ages comics imprint — would be publishing something Peanuts-related. Was it strips reprints? Comic book reprints? What?
The reality is that it’s an ALL NEW adaptation of a new Peanuts animated movie, Happiness Is a Warm Blanket Charlie Brown
, which Warners Home video is releasing in March.
The tie-in graphic novel adaptation is by original creator Charles M. Schulz and adapted by Craig Schulz and Stephan Pastis, with art by Bob Scott, Vicki Scott and Ron Zorman. As you can see from the attached preview, it’s drawn in the official Peanuts style.
Although the idea of anyone doing Peanuts but Sparky himself is strictly forbidden in the comics religion, if you’re going to do something new, an adaptation of a movie based on the comic strip is not completely blasphemous.
This March, join Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy and all your favorite PEANUTS characters as Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, the very first PEANUTS graphic novel ever published, is released by newly-launched all-ages imprint kaboom! Based on the work by PEANUTS creator Charles M. Schulz himself, this graphic novel is sure to delight a whole new generation of PEANUTS fans!
“We’re honored to publish such a beloved property,” BOOM! Studios Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Ross Richie said. “I can think of no better way to kick-off our new all-ages imprint kaboom! than with the first PEANUTS graphic novel ever published!”
Adapted from the brand new animated special from Warner Home Video, Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown features Charlie Brown’s kite-flying woes, Linus’ insecurities, Lucy’s unrequited love for Schroeder and everyone’s favorite beagle, Snoopy, in a lively and colorful spin through Charles Schulz’s imagination. This 80 page, 7×10, hardcover graphic novel ships this March at the suggested retail price of $19.99 in conjunction with the all-new PEANUTS animated feature of the same name available on DVD from Warner Home Video March 29, 2011.
Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown is written by original creator Charles M. Schulz and adapted by Craig Schulz and Stephan Pastis, with art by Bob Scott, Vicki Scott and Ron Zorman.
“New original PEANUTS comic book content is a tradition that goes pretty far back in comic book publishing,” said BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief, Matt Gagnon. “Dell Comics published ‘Tip Top Comics’ which featured new PEANUTS comic book content created under the guidance of Charles Schulz. ‘Tip Top’ ran from 1936 until 1961, creating well over 40 original PEANUTS stories and countless covers. It’s exciting to be a part of the return of PEANUTS to the comic book format.”
The Happiness is a Warm Blanket graphic novel and DVD dovetails into a larger campaign launched in January when PEANUTS proclaimed 2011 as “The Year of ‘Happiness Is…�
Fantagraphics’ Floyd Gottfredson reprint project was a big news item at last year’s San Diego, and you can bet that the book (due on April 15th) will get people talking some more. FBI released a pdf of the promo materials and here’s a sneak peek.
United Media, the syndicate behind such beloved comic strips as Pearls Before Swine and Get Fuzzy (above) and scores of other great strips of the past, is outsourcing its comics syndication business to Universal Uclick, according to a press release.
In syndication terms, this is as if DC suddenly outsourced its publishing to Marvel. New York-based United and the similarly named but Kansas City-based Universal uClick, which is owned by publisher Andrews McMeel, were long two of the three biggest comics syndicates — King Features is the third — and oversaw the immensely lucrative and popular icons of the comics pages for decades.
However, a greater reality is that newspaper syndication is a dying business.
United Media was long the biggest syndicate on the block; however, with the decline of the newspaper business – UFS is owned by the Scripps newspaper group — they had begun to spin off some of their assets, selling off their licensing business to Iconix in 2010.
“After we sold United Media’s licensing operations in 2010 to focus on our core news and journalism enterprises, we set out to construct the best operating model for the remaining syndicate, whose primary customers are newspapers across America,” said Rich Boehne, Scripps president and CEO. “A review of our operations – and the marketplace we serve – made it clear that we should seek greater efficiency by teaming up with one of the other remaining players. In Andrews McMeel we found the scale and skills to carry forward the comic properties we have nurtured for many years.”
As of June, there will no longer be a Universal comics syndicate. United Editor
Lisa Wilson told
Michael Cavna more about the dismantling:
“There can only be two ‘top’ players” in newspaper syndication, Wilson tells Comic Riffs. “The market is shrinking — the number of newspapers, the size, everything.”
Anticipating that the industry will no longer be able to support three top syndicates, Wilson said, “Scripps did the best thing they can do for the talent and to make sure there’s a successful transition to a leading entity that can be profitable and viable going forward.”
The deal came as news to numerous United creators.
“I’m a little stunned, but in the wake of the ‘Peanuts’ and ‘Dilbert’ deals, not really surprised,” “Big Nate” creator Lincoln Peirce tells Comic Riffs. “There seems to have been a certain inevitability to it.
Much more background in that link.
Peanuts and Dilbert moved to Universal last year. United’s licensing business has also had a bit of a rocky road at Iconix, which is known more for apparel licensing — they laid off about 40 percent of their staff late last year.
Ted Rall, who served as Editor of Acquisitions at United for three years, sent out a scathing statement:
Nearly two years ago United Feature Syndicate fired me as Editor of Acquisitions and Deve
Tarpé Mills is a name well known to comics historians, not only as one of the best of the female cartoonists of the war years, but as the creator and artist of Miss Fury, one of the first successful superheroine characters, which ran for nearly a decade as a strip in a Sunday newspaper supplemet. It was a lively blend of outré characters, adventure and naughtiness. This April Dean Mullaney’s Library of American Comics imprint at IDW is reprinting the best of the strips in a deluxe volume complete with an introduction by comics historian Trina Robbins. Mullaney provided a description of the volume and this preview for our Anniversary week:
Catfights and crossdressers, mad scientists and Gestapo agents with swastika-branding irons—it’s one lurid and exciting adventure after another in this lavish, full-color collection of the first female superhero created and drawn by a woman. Miss Fury was a sexy adventurer clad in a skin-tight panther costume—complete with sharp claws on her hands and her feet!
By day, she was socialite Marla Drake. By night…Miss Fury.
The strip was populated by a cast of memorable characters who were connected to each other by far less than six degrees of separation and whose paths interwove like a complicated tapestry. They include:
The one-armed general Bruno, a Rommel-esque figure who is a German patriot, but plots to overthrow the Nazi party.
Marla’s recurring nemesis, the Baroness Erica Von Kampf, her platinum blonde bangs cut into a V-shape to cover the swastika that was branded on her forehead.
Gary Hale, the all-American man who doesn’t necessary marry the right woman.
Albino Jo, a Harvard-educated, loincloth-wearing albino Indian in the Brazilian jungle who resurfaces a year later as a pipe-smoking criminologist
dressed in a well-tailored suit.
Whiffy, a French transvestite smuggler of stolen European art!
Miss Fury’s friend Era, who falls for one of two seemingly young and handsome men who actually are 200 years old, and have been drinking an elixir to stay young!
Eisner- and Harvey-nominated writer and historian Trina Robbins has chosen the best Miss Fury stories for this oversized collection, which also features a biographical essay about Tarpé Mills that places her within the history of women cartoonists, and includes pages from an unpublished and unfinished Miss Fury graphic novel by Mills from 1979.
Variety confirms that everyone’s favorite orphan is getting a reboot
, courtesy if Will Smith’s production company, with daughter
Willow Smith set to star. Smith’s production company is teaming with Jay-Z to form a new movie-making joint venture and ANNIE is on the list.
The remake will be a musical, which is great because all little girls like to sing songs from ANNIE. Jay-Z also likes to sing songs from ANNIE, so the new version will sound something like this:
And yes, she is usually known as a redhead and everyone is going to go bonkers over this but, guess what, we live in a multicultural society now and WIllow Smith is an adorable kid who already has an album in the works.
ANNIE is based on Harold Gray’s classic comic strip, which provided an adventurous mirror of Depression-era America, as the plucky orphan was continually separated from her guardian, the ultra-rich Daddy Warbucks. A previous version of the ANNIE musical was filmed in 1982 by John Huston, with Albert Finnney as Daddy Warbucks and Aileen Quinn as Annie. Quinn acts occasionally, but mostly works as a drama teacher in New Jersey these days.
By Jen Vaughn
What do you do with a man with a wild mind of his own and a pair of drawing hands that just won’t quit?
You make him KING.
James Kochalka is the one of forerunners of autobiographical diary comics with his syndicated comic, American Elf
, which is also available online and began way back in October, 1998. He is also the creator of other excellent comics like irreverent SuperF*ckers and children’s books like the Johnny Boo series and most recently, Dragon Puncher. His comics are published by Portland-based comics publisher,
Top Shelf. Brett Warnock of Top Shelf had this to say about his new Laureate: “James Kochalka mines the depths of the comics medium in ways that most aspiring cartoonists can only hope to achieve. Simply put, he “gets” comics… the narrative flow, panel and page compositions, line quality and color palette. Of course, all would be for naught without his charming, funny, and engaging content. And he makes it all seem so damn effortless. The world is a much better place for Kochalka’s impressive body of work.”
All over the state of Vermont, Kochalka has spread his love of comics and drawing. He is a regular visiting artist/faculty member at
the Center for Cartoon Studies
Kochalka is also known for giving back to his own Vermont town, Burlington. Once a year, Kochalka and a rag-tag group of fledgling cartoonists (usually from CCS) take over the 4th and 5th grade classes to teach youngsters the joy of comics, sequential art and panel play.
When not inspiring the minds of children and cartoonists world-wide, Kochalka occasionally sings in his band, James Kochalka Superstar or creates 8-bit digi-tunes (my favorite track from Digital Elf was The Golden Eagle). The coronation of James Kochalka , the first EVER Cartoonist Laureate, will take place all over Vermont in a day long-celebratio
We continue our series on cheap, obsolete media formats by showcasing a technology little improved in two thousand years. In an age when technology gets tossed aside in favor of the Latest Thing Next Year, is it any wonder that books are finally becoming quaint antiques, reminiscent of an earlier, less complicated ageBut don’t worry, bibliophiles! Just as there are still markets for mangles and typewriters, so too will a market for books exist in less developed cultures! As the book market in the U. S. slowly shrinks and shrivels, numerous bargains will appear, like the ones below!Click on the titles for Barnes & Noble links.
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MAD’s Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin9781615573332 $150, now $24.98 (cheap!)(No link. After three years, the stock has sold out at the website.)Call your local Barnes & Noble storeHave them click “nearby stores” if they do not have a copy.If none of those nearby stores have copies, then have them click “search more stores” from that list.Have that store give you phone numbers of at least five other stores which may have copies. Call each until you find a store with a copy in decent condition.Tell the bookseller that you wish to have the book shipped. They will take your shipping and payment information, and process the order later that day. Shipping will cost $3.99.
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
If you are grieving for the loss of Brenda Starr with the previous story, fear not. Hermes Press is launching a reprint series of the strip from the beginning with the first two storylines in full color. The first book comes out in June 2011. We’ll be making some room on the shelf.
Hermes Press adds yet another important title to its line-up of classic comic book and comic strip reprints with Brenda Starr, Reporter by Dale Messick: The Collected Daily and Sunday Strips.
Brenda Starr, the world’s most famous fictional reporter, role model to scores of aspiring female journalists, will now have her own series of reprint volumes starting with the strip’s debut on June 30, 1940. Created by Dale Messick, the first woman to create, draw, and write a syndicated newspaper strip, Brenda Starr successfully mixed romance, fashion, and adventure into one of the longest running features in newspaper history. Even though the strip will officially end its syndicated run on January 2, 2011, the feature will continue through Hermes Press’ reprints of strip’s early years.
The first volume of this series will reprint, for the first time, the first two Sunday storylines in full color. Hermes Press is digitally restoring these Sundays so that they look better than when they were first released. Also featured in this volume will be the first “Man of Mystery” story featuring Brenda’s love interest, Basil St. John.
Brenda Starr, Reporter started as a Sunday only strip but by October 22, 1945 a daily version of the feature also appeared. The first daily sequence will also be featured in the first volume of Hermes Press’ reprint.
Fans of classic comic strips and Brenda Starr will have a chance, thanks to this new reprint, to see one of the great newspaper features all over again, from the beginning.
Brenda Starr, Reporter® by Dale Messick: The Collected Daily and Sunday Newspaper Strips; color Sundays and black-and-white daily strips; ISBN 1-932563-80-6; landscape hardcover with printed laminated cover and dustjacket; 9 by 12 inches; 288 pages; reprints the first two color continuities of the Sunday strips, starting with the premiere on June 30, 1940; features the first “Man of Mystery” storyline featuring Basil St. John and five complete daily storylines; $60; available June/2011.
Another classic comic strip just ran out of panels: Brenda Starr is ending its run on January 2.
Writer
Mary Schmich and artist
June Brigman have decided to end their run on the strip, and the syndicate decided to end the strip with them. The death of Schmich’s mother is said to have been the turning point in deciding to move on.
“There’s sadness about stopping, but no regret and no ambivalence,” Schmich said. “It came to me really clearly that I was done. … I don’t think the character is dead. But the comic strip in this form is.”
Chronicling the globe-trotting deeds of a snoopy reporter, Brenda Starr began its run on June 30, 1940, mixing Winnie Winkle-type fashion with Terry and the Pirates exotic jeopardy. Perhaps most famously, its creator was a woman — Dale Messick, whose struggle to get work was so discouraging that — as many pioneers did before her — she adapted a gender-ambiguous name to get her work taken more seriously. Although the Chicago Tribune syndicate picked up the strip, it did not run in the Tribune — allegedly because syndicate head Captain Joseph Patterson didn’t like the idea of a dame doing a comic strip. Fortunately he was proven wrong and glamorous reporter Brenda and her sexy man of mystery Basil St. John — who she pursued for some 30 years before they married — joined the ranks of comics beloved characters for a run of just over 70 years.
Messick drew the strip until 1980, when it passed to a succession of women creators — Ramona Fradon, Linda Sutter and eventually Schmich and Brigman. Through it all
, Brenda remained plucky and fashionable, a female adventurer who never shied away from danger or a handsome stranger. Adaptations over the years included a
serial, a failed pilot starring Jill St. John, and a rather lame movie starring Brooke Shields. She also got her own postage stamp in 1995.
The strip was something of a lightning rod for all the “Can women do comics?” arguments over the years. Messick’s well documented fight against sexism made her a real pioneer, and one of the few truly successful female cartoonists in Ameri
While the news that Fantagraphics is to publish Barnaby
might have seemingly exhausted the archives of cult favorite comic strips that need to be reprinted, it is definitely not so.
Percy Crosby’s SKIPPY is another much-admired comic strip getting a reprint…but this one has a hell of a back story.
Running from 1923 to 1945, Skippy was immensely popular in its day, even being adapted into a movie which won its director the Academy Award and launched child actor Jackie Cooper’s career. At the height of its popularity, Crosby
was making a fortune and dating starlets. His art was lauded and familiar. But his life ended sadly, after spending 16 years in a mental institution, broken marriages and alcoholism along the way.
Rosebud Archives, a one-year-old publisher of fine comic strip reprints and prints, is bringing back on of the most dramatic storylines in SKIPPY’s run, involving the Mob, Al Capone and more — a storyline that might have been the beginning of Crosby’s troubles.
Rosebud Archives, whose stated goal is to breathe new life into the rich history of comics and graphic arts, is proud to announce a major new book to be published in January 2011: Skippy vs. The Mob: The Fight for Vesey Street and the American Soul.
This eyebrow-raising book, authorized by the Percy Crosby Estate and Skippy, Inc., will uncover a decades-long sore in the American Dream: Percy Crosby, at the height of his fame and creative abilities, and emboldened to take up the lance against injustice with the idealistic vision of America that his childhood never let him forget, took on an enemy all too real: Al Capone. Yet, where he saw his crusade in the Land of the Free – where justice triumphed – his attack on gangsterism and organized crime proved to be the beginning of the end for a talented artist and outspoken critic of the societal ills he witnessed.
Unknown to him at the time was how deep the rot went; Corporate ties to organized crime, political protection and corruption… Percy Crosby was soon to learn that those who sought to gain from a rigged system could easily have him silenced… or put away. Confined in an asylum against his will, and the protestations of the few who ever visited him, Percy Crosby remained there for the rest of his life, continuing to draw and write despite his diminishing hope for freedom.
Skippy vs. The Mob will reprint for the first time the entire sequence of comics, both as they appeared in the newspapers of the day as well as the original art. Preceding the sequence will be a comprehensive essay by Joan Crosby Tibbetts, daughter of Percy Crosby and appointed administrat
The much-beloved cult strip BARNABY by Crockett Johnson is getting a quality reprint, courtesy of Fantagraphics, The Comics Reporter reports. Eric Reynolds will edit while Dan Clowes supplies the art direction. First volume is due in April 2012. Spurge has all the history and details:
CR has learned that that Fantagraphics wishes to make public that it’s reached an agreement to publish a major, all-but-complete collection of Crockett Johnson’s Barnaby. One of the best comic strips of the 20th Century and one of the most beloved older strips for a generation of devoted adult comics fans, Barnaby had become in the last decade and a half the great unsigned strip collection.
Johnson is also known as the creator of Harold and the Purple Crayon, and many other favorite children’s books. The return of Barnaby is welcome news and means that minute by minute, the list of essential comics in print and available grows larger and larger.
One of my favourite Peanuts strips. Here, without even knowing it, Schulz explains his own strip’s popularity.
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The display at MoCCA is open from September 6-12.
I’m sorry, but does everything have to be a tribute to Sept 11? “If Marmaduke doesn’t get off the couch, the terrorists won.”
I’m hopping on this bandwagon, but not with the remember-the-deaths fixation that dominates this topic. While that’s a totally appropriate response for those who lost someone that day, it’s unhealthy for the rest of us, as a society.
Those who survived 9/11 are more important.
I’m publishing a two-page excerpt of my in-progress graphic novel “JAQrabbit Tales”, a short episode set on 9/11-12. The GN is an adults-only biography, but these pages contain only partial nudity. I’m pretty sure it’ll be the only 9/11 “tribute” that opens with two naked men in bed together. :)
You’ll be able to find it at http://tales.jaqrabbit.com later this week.