COMICS JOURNAL INDEXED
Peter Coogan's in-progress Comics Journal index is available online via the University of Florida's comics scholarship website. The index currently "covers issues 2-142 and several more issues that have been indexed since 142. Coogan plans to bring the index up to date and maintain it in an ongoing fashion."
INFO: TCJ Index
posted by Egon on Friday, April 25, 2003

BY GEORGE: THE KOMPLETE HERRIMAN
Bill Blackbeard announces a series of books collecting George Herriman's non-Krazy Kat comic strips in a message posted to the Platinum Age Comics mailing list. Says Blackbeard: "Upcoming from Spec [Productions] is the first volume of a collected complete run of all of George Herriman's non-Krazy Kat daily strips, from Baron Mooch and Gooseberry Sprigg thru Stumble Inn, including all of The Dingbat Family and The Family Upstairs, reprinted in full original size in several oversized volumes, to appear over the next few years... The title of the series is -- of course -- By George: The Complete Daily Comic Strips of George Herriman Before & After Krazy Kat." Blackbeard is also at work collecting Harry J. Tuthill's "The Bungle Family," due in 2004, and has written an introduction to "'The Huckleberry Kids at War,' a stiff-covered pamphlet which reprints complete in full original size R F Outcault's daily panel strip from the N Y Evening Journal of 1898." Both projects are also published by Spec Productions.
INFO: Platinum Age Comics
posted by Egon on Friday, April 25, 2003

COMIC ART INFILTRATES PRESS
A confluence of cartoonists contribute strips and artwork to May-dated periodicals. Art Spiegelman provides cover art for the May 5 issue of The Nation. Peter Bagge's latest strip for Reason is a one-pager on "The Nerdification of America." Finally, Jaime Hernandez draws the Donnas in Spin Magazine's latest "Real Life Rock Tales," as reported to the Comics Journal message board by Tim Hensley.
INFO: The Nation
INFO: Reason
INFO: The Comics Journal
posted by Egon on Friday, April 25, 2003

WARE, GLASS GET LOST
Chris Ware joins Ira Glass and a group of correspondents for This American Life's live roadshow, "Lost in America." Ware and Glass will "co-report a story in cartoons and audio" in five cities through the month of May.
INFO: This American Life
posted by Egon on Tuesday, April 22, 2003

RADIO FREE COMICS
Jeffrey Brown talks about and reads from "Clumsy" in this week's edition of "This American Life." Brown addresses the episode's theme of "regime change" as it applies to the personal relationship depicted in his book. Meanwhile, James Kochalka speaks with WAMC radio about his work and his participation in this year's "Free Comic Book Day" promotion.
INFO: This American Life
INFO: WAMC
posted by Egon on Tuesday, April 22, 2003

TOEPFFER'S OLDEST OLDBUCK ONLINE
Leonardo De Sá has completed a new online edition of the "Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois," Rodolphe Töpffer's first picture story. The site features "the original manuscript version" of the work, dated 1827, with transcribed French- and translated English-language captions. De Sá also provides a detailed synopsis explicating the publishing history behind the various editions of Töpffer's picto-narrative books.
INFO: Vieux Bois
posted by Egon on Monday, April 21, 2003

HARVEY NOMINEES NAMED
The Harvey Awards Committee has announced nominees for the 2003 Harvey Awards, selected via ballot by "comics' creative community." Winners will be voted upon by the same body and will be named later this year.
INFO: Harvey Awards
posted by Egon on Monday, April 21, 2003