PROMISE KEEPERS
Jackie Estrada announces via press release the nominees for this year’s Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award:

Farel Dalrymple, Pop Gun War (Absence of Ink)
Tan Eng Huat, Doom Patrol (DC)
Les McClaine, Highway 13 (Slave Labor)
Christine Norrie, Hopeless Savages (Oni)
Steve Rolston, Queen & Country (Oni)

Estrada: "The award will be presented on the evening of Friday, August 2, at the San Diego Convention Center as part of Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards ceremony."
Link: Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
posted by Egon on Friday, June 21, 2002

KRAFT IS THE ENEMY
The Kraft Foods corporation has gained a court injunction blocking Stuart "King VelVeeda" Helm from using the "King VelVeeda" nom de plume on his website, Bloomberg.com reports. The Bloomberg article identifies VelVeeda primarily as "a man who sells adult photographs and drawings over the Internet." Equally shocking: Kraft Foods has "sold more than $3 billion worth of the cheese product since the early 1990s, and one in four U.S. homes have Velveeta products in their home at any time." The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is defending VelVeeda in this matter.
Info: Bloomberg.com
Link: Cheesy Graphics
Link: CBLDF
posted by Egon on Thursday, June 20, 2002

GROTH MASTERS FLYNTLOCK
Fantagraphics has posted their latest news update, chock full of infobytes and duckspeak. Ware at Wizard World! Sacco goes Dutch! And: get the skinny on the up-cumming coupling of Eros Comix and Hustler Magazine!
Info: TCJ.com
posted by Egon on Thursday, June 20, 2002

FBI SUMMER STOCK
Kim Thompson announced on the Comics Journal's message board that the following Fantagraphics publications should be available at roughly the same time as the San Diego Comic-Con:

Comics Journal Summer Special 2002
Comics Journal #245 (cover featuring Dave Cooper)
20th Century Eightball
Complete Crumb Comics Volume 16
Death and Candy #3
Love and Rockets Vol. II #5
House at Maakies Corner
Meatcake #12
Mystic Funnies #3
Naughty Bits #36
Peculia
Weasel #5
INFO: TCJ.com
posted by Egon on Wednesday, June 19, 2002

TIME REGAINED
The new English-language edition of David B's "Epileptic" gets the Time.comix treatment in a strong review by Andrew Arnold.
Review: Time.com
posted by Egon on Wednesday, June 19, 2002

DREAM LOGIC?
Newsarama is pleased as punch to report that Roarin' Rick Veitch will soon be writing "Aquaman" comics.
Info: Comicon Newsarama
Link: Aquaman
posted by Egon on Wednesday, June 19, 2002

QUEEN KEEN, POSY ROSY
The Guardian reports that cartoonist Posy Simmonds is among those chosen to receive the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire), for "serving the Newspaper industry."
Info: Guardian Unlimited
posted by Egon on Tuesday, June 18, 2002