The Economist has just published its 2010 wall calendar packed with original cartoon art by Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher. "It took me all summer to complete so I am both delighted and exhausted," said KAL. You can see samples of the elaborate pages and order your own copy by going to:

https://www.kaltoons.com/wordpress/2009/11/kal-2010-wall-calendar/

Jeff Koterba, cartoonist for the Omaha World-Herald, has written "Inklings, a memoir." The 272-page harcover is being published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and chronicles "his chaotic boyhood … and his complicated father who, like Koterba, suffers from Tourette's syndrome." "Inklings" is now available in bookstores everywhere and online:

https://www.hmhbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=1101287