Fox Trot going Sundays-only

[E&P] "FoxTrot" cartoonist Bill Amend has been thinking of turning his 1988-launched comic into a Sunday-only strip since ... about 1990.

"The sense that this full-time pace wasn't working well for me probably started about two years into the strip," Amend said with a laugh during an E&P phone interview this afternoon. "I love newspapers and I love cartooning, but it takes me forever to do these things."

Those "things" -- seven "FoxTrot" comics a week -- keep Amend at the drawing board for about 60 hours.

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Eisner Awards Call for Entries

From Comic Book Resources...

Entries are now being accepted for the 19th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, to be given to the finest publications and creators of 2006.

Publishers can submit any comic, graphic novel, or comics-related periodical or book that was shipped to retailers between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006. The submitted items will be considered by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, who will select the final items to appear on the Eisner Awards ballot.

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Comic Book Urban Legends

Also from Comic Book Resources: One of these urban legends is false. Do you know which one?

DC got the idea behind Brainiac from a “make your own computer� kit.

Lex Luthor went bald due to an artist’s mistake.

Joe Kelly did not originally intend for his Zod to be Russian.

Head to the weekly Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed, posted by Brian Cronin at Comic Book Resources, to find out.