Tag: Comics

Amazon.com: Books: Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace 1951-1952

Amazon.com: Books: Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace 1951-1952 I’m really excited to see that Fantagraphics is starting a complete run of Hank Ketcham’s “Dennis the Menace.” The punchlines (such as they are) in this strip are always kinda dumb, but Ketcham has perhaps the greatest visual design sense of anyone who’s ever worked in …

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The Nameless Dread

The Nameless Dread “The Family Circus” as written by H.P. Lovecraft. (Click for larger image)

Toon Town: Center for Cartoon Studies to open in White River Junction

Toon Town: Center for Cartoon Studies to open in White River Junction Here’s a nice summary article about The Center for Cartoon Studies, a new cartooning school being started by my friend and cohort James Sturm in Vermont. I’d consider going myself, except (a) I already have one useless degree in cartooning, and (b) it’s …

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Egg Story

Completely unrelated to the book Strange Eggs that I’ve been working on with Chris Reilly, is Egg Story by J. Marc Schmidt. I’m embarrassed to say, I just got around to reading this recently—embarrassed because we’re both published by the same publisher…and because of the egg connection. At any rate, I really enjoyed the book. …

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Roger Langrige nominated for NCS award

NCS News Congrats to Roger Langridge, who’s been nominated for a Reuben (the award given out by the National Cartoonists’ Society). Roger is one of the best, and most underappreciated, cartoonists working today. He’s been nominated for his brilliant new book, Fred the Clown.