Behind the Books – Book 23

Behind the Books – Book 23

This is the final book in the series from Barnhouse Publishing collecting the strips dealing with Harry L. Dinkle the World’s Greatest Band Director. It was always with fingers crossed that I would present a new one of these band collections to my publisher, but...
Behind the Books – Book 22

Behind the Books – Book 22

Behind another terrific cover by Chuck Ayers, Andrews McMeel continued their collection of the Crankshaft  strips in order. For completists, the first four books with Andrews McMeel provide a nice snapshot of the early work on the strip. Most of the early tropes have...
Cover Me 224

Cover Me 224

For a book written by Kurt Busiek, it doesn’t matter what the cover looks like… I’m buying it. But this cover was pretty good.
Behind the books – Book 21

Behind the books – Book 21

With the success of the first part of the story about Lisa Moore’s battle with breast cancer as it ran in the newspapers, my syndicate, King Features, began to seek a publisher for the work. They found one at Penguin Putnam under their Perigee imprint. At the...