The commemorative Bill
Mauldin postage stamp, depicting Mauldin as a callow young WWII soldier
next to his iconic Willie and Joe, was supposed to go on sale March 10, they
say, at your local Postal Service Station; but it won’t show up until March 31,
according to a late report. ... 
The New Yorker
for March 15 carries a two-page excerpt from Daniel Clowes’ forthcoming graphic novel, Wilson,
due out in May, that introduces the title character, a thoroughly peevish
a-social but satirical humanoid — clever enough but you wouldn’t want to invite
him over for dinner. ... At DailyCartoonist, Alan Gardner cites a report from Mad ’tooner Tom Richmond that the magazine, which went quarterly last year,
will vault into bi-monthly publication starting June 15. The change will permit
the Mad men to resort, once again, to
more topical material. “Mad has been
hampered by being completely unable to riff on timely subjects due to its long
time between issues. Bimonthly isn’t the same as monthly, but it beats
quarterly by exactly 50%!” ... Speaking of venerable magazine venues for
cartoons, the March issue of Playboy prints
two pages of Eldon Dedini, eight
cartoons with his panting satyrs and breathless wood nymphs whose nakedness
made Hugh Hefner famous. ... Heartthrob Leonardo
DiCaprio is the son of an underground comics distributor and grew up
reading the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Zap
and Weirdo comics. “At a very
young age,” he told Craigh Barboza at USA
Weekend, “I was exposed to the most hardcore hippie subculture any young
man would be subject to.”
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