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Calvin, FoxTrot, Garfield on ballot for Nick Mag Comics Awards

Several of your favorite GoComics strips have been nominated in the Nickelodeon Magazine Comics Awards!

• Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson: Favorite Comic Strip
• Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes): Best Hair in Comics
• FoxTrot by Bill Amend: Favorite Comic Strip
• Garfield by Jim Davis: Favorite Comic Strip

The newly created Nickelodeon Magazine Comics Awards honor the best comic books, strips, and graphic novels for kids published across the U.S. Readers vote for their favorite comics and characters either by mailing the ballot printed the December/January 2008 issue (on sale now) or by voting online at http://www.nickmag.com/comicsawards. Ballots must be received no later than December 31, 2008. The winners will be announced in the April 2009 issue of Nickelodeon Magazine and online at nickmag.com.

Time Capsule: Cartoonists in 1982!

Check out this "Weekend Magazine" news segment featuring Garfield creator Jim Davis and the late, great Doug Marlette, among others. It originally aired on WAGA in Atlanta in 1982:

(Thanks to Tom Spurgeon)

Watch for Lynn Johnston on PBS's Schulz Special tonight!

Lynn Johnson, creator of For Better or For Worse, will be one of the interviewees on tonight's episode of American Masters on PBS, which spotlights legendary Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. Amid the pseudo-controversy stemming from the release of the new Schulz biography Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis, Johnston and others will offer their own unique perspectives on the beloved cartoonist, whose friends knew him as "Sparky." To check air dates/times by your zip code, click here.