This popped up on my Bone alert last month. It was a piece over at Blake Bell’s website that marked the passing of Josie DeCarlo, the inspiration for Dan DeCarlo’s Josie & The Pussycats character for Archie comics. Blake posts an interview he did with Josie from 2002, and it’s worth a look.

As I recall, this picture is from the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award dinner, and we were the comic book table. Around 2001 or so?  Left to right: Dan DeCarlo, me, someone I recognize, but can’t remember his name, Josie, Sergio Aragones, and Will Eisner. Dan and I were both up for best comic book that year- – Dan won and we all went wild!

Thanks to Blake!

On Wednesday, Jeff was in New York City to take part in a global webcast for Scholastic. Joining him were Raina Telgemeier (SMILE) and Kazu Kibuishi (AMULET).

You can see the entire interview here, and see what was on thousands of classroom computer’s across the country.

Please help me, and the rest of the gang from Cartoon Books in celebrating our fearless leader’s day!!! Happy Birthday Jeff!!!

Ultimate Comics is auctioning off several Muppet Show variant covers sketched by industry professionals.  Jeff’s cover is shown above with 100% of the money going to the CBLDF. The Auction of his piece will run until this Friday, 2/24/12, and the overall event will run until Friday March 9.

You can bid on Jeff’s cover by going here. You can see ALL of the auctions on eBay from the Ultimate Comics store by clicking here!