by tombatiuk | Jun 2, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
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...
by tombatiuk | May 26, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
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...
by tombatiuk | May 16, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
And so we come to the penultimate volume in the collection of the band strips from Funky Winkerbean. Colorist Lee Loughridge once again lends his coloring to the cover, and, once again I prove how coming up with snappy short titles is not my forte. It is a funny title...
by Tom Batiuk | May 3, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
Along with the Crankshaft collections that Andrews McMeel was bringing out, they also published the first collection of some of my mature, or maybe let’s call it, adult work. I had been writing a series about Crankshaft’s next door neighbor, Lillian...
by tombatiuk | Apr 21, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
When King Features was shopping Lisa’s Story to the New York book companies, two of the publishers they approached were Penguin Putnam and NBM. NBM was and is a publisher of graphic arts collections, and was a pretty small operation at the time. So when Penguin...
