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Lucas Turnbloom, creator of Imagine This, is this week's guest cartoonist on Haiku Ewe while creator Allison Garwood recovers from a wrist injury. Go check it out! Lucas is hitting this guest stint out of the park!
Lucas has also announced that the first Imagine This collection, entitled "The Clovax," is now available in a special artist's edition on his site and in a regular edition on Lulu.com! And as if page after hilarious page of Imagine This strips weren't enough, "The Clovax" even features a forward by Scott Hilburn, creator of the GoComics smash hit, The Argyle Sweater!
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is available today at a staggering 47% off on Amazon.com from 10am-2pm PST! This 4-hour sale is your best chance to get every strip from Bill Watterson's masterpiece, preserved in a beautiful 3-volume hardback set. If there are any comic fans on your holiday shopping list (including you!), this is an offer too good to pass up!
Update: The sale is over, but you can still get The Complete Calvin and Hobbes for 37% off through the GoComics Amazon store. Just click on the ad below!
A new book by a literature and humanities professor at Brigham Young University takes an unprecedented look at Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury and the role satire plays in the health of American society. Garry Trudeau: Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire, by Kerry D. Soper, examines the history and aesthetics of the strip, Trudeau's satiric methods, character construction, narrative practices and the immense popularity the strip has enjoyed over nearly four decades of existence. The book is the latest addition to the Great Comic Artists series.
Click here to read a short article about the book by Dennis Lythgoe of the Deseret News.
Dan Walsh's webcomic, Garfield Minus Garfield, is about to be collected in print. And Garfield creator Jim Davis has not only given his blessing - he's allowing the book to contain the original Garfield strips side-by-side with the G-G strips they inspired.
The webcomic, which has only been around since February 2008, quickly developed a large Internet following and made a fan out of Davis himself:
Walsh, of Dublin, Ireland, creates G-G by taking the original Garfield strips and removing all of the characters except Jon. What's left are the daily exploits of a lonely, isolated bachelor whose absurd behavior hilariously reveals a desperate longing for human interaction.
The book will be published by Ballantine Books and will be released simultaneously with a Garfield 30th Anniversary book arriving in stores this fall.
To read the official press release, click here.
Garfield Minus Garfield - July 23rd, 2008:
The original Garfield strip - March 6th, 1989:
Comics guru R.C. Harvey offers his thoughts on The Complete Peanuts on his Rants & Raves blog, revisiting a 2004 interview with the book's designer, Seth:
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"In taking the book design assignment, Seth (aka Gregory Gallant), a cartoonist himself (graphic novels like Clyde Fans: Book One and Wimbledon Green and It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken), wanted “a chance to do something beautiful for Sparky [as Schulz preferred to be called]. It is a daunting task in that sense,” he continued: “The only thing that makes it easier is that there have been many many horrible editions of Peanuts, and his work still goes on unharmed. At the very least, I can’t hurt Peanuts.” Click here to read more. |
Legendary Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, known for decades as one of the most private figures in comics, stepped out into the spotlight ever so briefly in 2007 to offer his praises for Richard Thompson's brilliant Cul de Sac.
Scarcely a year later, Watterson has once again emerged from his post-Calvin retirement, and once again, it's Cul de Sac that has him talking. The first Cul de Sac collection, Cul de Sac: This Exit, is set for September release and features a foreward by the enigmatic cartoonist.
"I thought the best newspaper comic strips were long gone, and I've never been happier to be wrong. Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac has it all--intelligence, gentle humor, a delightful way with words, and, most surprising of all, wonderful, wonderful drawings."
That's the Watterson equivalent of the State of the Union address right there, and that's just the first paragraph! You can read the entire forward (and pre-order the book) here.
Kerry Callen, creator of the fun metaphysical comic series Halo and Sprocket, was interviewed by Newsarama about the upcoming release of Halo and Sprocket: Natural Creatures, a graphic novel-length collection of short stories to be released in July.
You can enjoy the first Halo and Sprocket mini-series everywhere you go by downloading the GoComics mobile comic book reader application for your phone. Visit m.gocomics.com on your mobile phone browser. Visit the GoComics Comic Book section for more info.
Screamland, written by GoComics' own Harold Sipe with art by Hector Casanova, is on sale now! Look for it at your local comic book shop!
