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Bill Watterson brought Calvin & Hobbes to an end, on New Year's Eve 1995. Awww… But there were rumours of a final unpublished strip Which appeared in a number of forms. And it's a version of that one that recently popped up on eBay.   Supposedly signed by Bill Watterson, though all eyes on the strip don't see[...]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. The comic strip format is something I never quiiiiite got the hang of; while it's frequently formulaic, and I respond well to[...]

These cartoon strips are created weeks, months in advance But it is a shame it had to run this week… These cartoon strips are created weeks, months in advance But it is a shame it had to run this week… These cartoon strips are created weeks, months in advance But it is a shame it[...]

Cartoon strip Thatababy by Paul Trap did seem to get rather hung up on movie continuity in the new Amazing Spider-Man movie this weekend… The reboot of the reboot? Count me in! Cartoon strip Thatababy by Paul Trap did seem to get rather hung up on movie continuity in the new Amazing Spider-Man movie this weekend… The[...]

Welcome to the seventh strip in our weekly strip Kicking With Cactus by Chad Hindahl. Welcome to the seventh strip in our weekly strip Kicking With Cactus by Chad Hindahl. Welcome to the seventh strip in our weekly strip Kicking With Cactus by Chad Hindahl. Welcome to the seventh strip in our weekly strip Kicking[...]

James Hudnall's latest comic book creation Aquila is to appear in the September relaunch of the Bosnian-based British comics anthology Strip Magazine It's about a Roman Scout in the year 0 AD who comes across all sorts of weirdness on the frontiers of the Roman Empire. Hudnall also has a series of podcasts on his blog,[...]

Greg Farrell is a cartoonist who works at the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan, the staff of whom are currently in conflict with management over a new

I like to think he resembles the fellow in the ad on the right. Here is that "detestable" strip by Greg Evans. I mean it's not particularly funny But detestable? Gunther isn't even gay… it seems just the mention has raised Allen's ire.   Here is a letter from one Allen Hatten from Georgetown to his local Louisiana[...]

As the week's controversial Doonesbury strips get leaked in full (find it in colour here), a number of newspapers have been reconsidering their reaction to drop the strip this week. The Des Moines Register reports; This week's series of Doonesbury comic strips — they deal with a woman's visit to a Texas abortion clinic — will appear[...]

The Elmira Star-Gazette and (Binghamton) Press and Sun-Bulletin are NOT running the regular strip, but the Ithaca Journal IS This isn't surprising as Ithaca is home to Cornell University and is generally a leftie area, so likely would face less complaints All 3 papers feature the strip on their opinion pages. The replacement in the 3[...]

The publication of the Bosnian-based comic publisher PrintMedia's preview of Strip Magazine has had its debut at the Bristol International Comic Expo happening today, delayed due to French strike action at the Charles de Gaulle airport. So instead the publishers have put the free preview online For free Look up, it's there. The STRIP Magazine panel[...]

Earlier this year L'il Orphan Annie went to meet her parents. Then Cathy gave a final "Ack!" And now the seventy-year long strip Brenda Starr, Reporter is to end. Admittedly, I've never actually read it. But it does seem to be an unfortunate trend. Created by Dale Messick, she wrote the strip until 1980 Only female writers have written the[...]

From Chuck (McBuck) Forsman...