I want to welcome cartoonist Peter Sandmark to Sandbox World. In my twenties, I fell in love with a weekly strip called Slum Dog by Peter Sandmark from the Montreal Mirror a weekly tabloid. The innocence of a local raggy old street dog captured my imagination. Recently, I wondered what happened to Slum Dog. I could not find much on the internet. I got to discover that Peter Sandmark is a multi-talented individual and is still cartooning. He now lives in British Columbia with his wife. He teaches on and off at the University of Victoria about his favorite passions comics and cinema.

The Iron Giant LP package is a marvel, with a pull tab opening the Giant’s die-cut eyes on the front jacket. Depending on which inner sleeve has been slotted in the first position directly behind the cover, the reveal is different. Open the eyes in normal or defense mode!

With Father’s Day just around the corner, why not spoil him with both Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite and Charles Bronson’s The Mechanic. This double barrel of Blu-ray movies includes extended features and goodies.

All you need are basic drawing tools and shapes to cartoon! The book features dozens of drawing projects and step-by-step instructions perfect for beginning and aspiring artists, cartoonists, illustrators, pen and graphite artists, and many others. Learn to draw cartoon characters and more using geometric shapes with Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square by Margherita Cole.

Comic book adaptations of television shows have been around since the beginning of the medium. Before that, there were a few comic books based on movies. Today comic book publishers gravitate to well-known brand names. Some of them at one time were television shows. American TV Comic Books 1940s-1980s by Peter Bosch celebrates the halcyon days of adaptions of television shows to comic book form.

FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK is the untold story of the Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny. Fighting barriers of race, gender and sexuality in the music industry, Fanny’s groundbreaking impact on music was written out of history.

Timex, the #1 selling watch brand in the United States, is excited to announce the release of its newest special edition collection in collaboration with Netflix’s Stranger Things. The Timex x Stranger Things collection brings together two cultural phenomena that will turn the watch world Upside Down, launched just in time for Season 4 of the sci-fi-horror drama to debut. Volume 1 of Stranger Things Season 4 premiered on May 27 and is currently streaming globally on Netflix, with Volume 2 launching on July 1, 2022. 

Quentin Tarantino’s next book is a nonfiction dispatch from a lifelong movie fanatic. “Cinema Speculation,” to be published Oct. 25, will center on “The Getaway” and other films from the 1970s that influenced him during childhood. The book, announced Friday by Harper, comes a year after the best-selling novelization of his movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

Late Fragments Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed by Charles Baudelaire as translated by Richard Sieburth brings together Baudelaire’s late fragmentary writings, aphoristic in form and radical in thought, into one edited collection for the first time.

As every comic fan knows, characters never die in comics. Now that has extended into reality. Marvel Studios has purchased the Stan Lee name and likeness to their brand for 20 years. Does this mean we will be getting more Stan Lee cameos in future movies? He was always a larger-than-life character.

Eureka Entertainment to release Carl Th. Dreyer’s VAMPYR, one of the finest and most enduringly mysterious of all horror films, is on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK from a brand-new 2K restoration, unveiled for the film’s 90th anniversary. Available from 30 May 2022 as a part of The Masters of Cinema Series in a Limited Edition set of 3000 copies featuring a Hardbound Slipcase & 100-page Collector’s Booklet.

The title ‘SURRENDER: 40 Songs, One Story’ refers to the book’s 40 chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created 40 original drawings for ‘SURRENDER’ which will appear throughout the book. Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has Bon’s written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.