Little Orphan Annie finds home at IDW
ICv2 breaks the news that IDW will be following up TERRY AND THE PIRATES with a collection of Little Orphan Annie:
Dean Mullaney, who is editing the new reprint edition of Milton Caniff's classic...
COMPLETE TERRY AND THE PIRATES from IDW
Oh yeah! Hip hip hooray! This is it! The comic that set the standard for exotic danger, adventure, romance and femme fatales. Oh yes. Six volumes from IDW starting in July, with the Sundays...
Jay Kennedy RIP
Very sad news going around this morning that Jay Kennedy, the highly respected editor in chief at King Features syndicate has died in a drowning accident while on vacation in Costa Rica. No further...
And now…Mary Worth!
Barry Alfonso at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes an insightful look at eternal busybody Mary Worth which continues even though it came in dead last in the paper's popularity poll. According to Alfonso it's because...
NBM collects MUTT AND JEFF
Continuing the run of publishers announcing more deluxe classic comic strip reprints, NBM has announced a reprint series called FOREVER NUTS, spotlighting the oddball early years of the American comic strip. Up first, just...
Pogo from FBI, designed by Smith
HOORAH!
Fantagraphics Books is pleased to announce that it has acquired the rights to publish a comprehensive series comprising Walt Kelly's classic POGO comic strip. The first volume of Fantagraphics' POGO will appear in October,...
Ramdom news and notes
§ Are fansubs destroying the American anime industry? This article at ComiPress says yes.
In 2006, rumors spread about anime distributor Central Park Media's bankruptcy (which did not happen). Also, a friend of mine was...
Happy 60th Birthday, Steve Canyon
Sixty years ago this weekend, "Steve Canyon" flew onto the pages of the Sun and 168 other daily newspapers, beginning a run that lasted until Caniff's death in 1988.The Sun previewed the arrival with...
NYT watch: Comic Strips Reprints
Joe Matt and strip reprints sales in the comics loving New York Times:
A NIGHTMARE,” Joe Matt sighs. “All those years, all that money, all that work. None of which I’ll ever get back.” Mr....
GET YOUR WAR ON Off-Broadway
David Rees alerts the TCJ message board to an off-Broadway version of his strip GET YOUR WAR ON:
Remember five years ago, when somebody sent you this link:
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html
...and you read a few comics and then,...
Wheeler in the Onion
As recounted in his blog, we ran into Too Much Opera Man Shannon Wheeler on the subway the other night, and he told us about his strip currently running in THE ONION, Postage Stamp...
New Archie reax
Another kerfluffle we haven't really had a chance to investigate is the Archie redesign. Basically the other day Archie announced they would be trying a LIMITED experiment with an updated look for the Riverdale...
