Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the critic and historian Jeet Heer takes a look at the recent controversy surrounding the portrayal of Charles Schulz in David Michaelis' book Schulz and Peanuts.

* at first I thought this biographer was searching for a 350-page manuscript by Charles Dickens about his close friend and Pickwick Papers illustrator the cartoonist Robert Seymour, but once the EMTs revived me and I got back to the computer screen I see that he never quite says this. Still, I'd like for that manuscript to be recovered, too.

* this is how you do a book launch: at the market, after the band stops playing, with former government officials testifying to your essential awesomeness. Anyway, if you have a few minutes, it's a chance to see one of the world's most influential, award-winning cartoonists speak in public.

* ballots for the 2008 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award are now up at the Comic-Con site.

* this is the first longish review I've seen for Posy Simmonds' as-yet-to-be-out-everywhere Tamara Drewe, one of the reasons this site waits until Valentine's Day to release its previous year's best list.

* most exhibitions featuring the work of a renowned World War II cartoonists get a mention as miscellaneous news items or not at all. This one has the decided advantage of having the 107-year-old cartoonist show up to open the exhibit himself.
 
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