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The Big Nate Replacement Thread – An Early Survey

There is not a whole lot more to report from our first post about the Big Nate newspaper replacements. Adding to that list in the link above is Wallace the Brave – Minnesota Star-Tribune, The Boston Globe The Grizzwells – Dallas Morning News Rosebuds – The Kokomo Tribune, Logansport Pharos-Tribune**** Brevity – Mon Valley Independent […]

CSotD: Swamping the Drains

The jokes write themselves, and the cartoons likewise. I’ve lost track of how many candidates have promised to drain the swamp only to find, once in office, that they kinda like it, but this is the first time I remember one of them building an actual swamp.This is a bookends juxtaposition: Venables posted his piece […]

Wallace the Brave Goes Up the Coast to Boston

The Boston Globe had a space open up on their comics page and chose to fill it with the pre-adolescent children of nearby Snug Harbor. Carlos R. Muñoz at The Boston Globe introduces Bostonians to Wallace the Brave (or here): When cartoonist Will Henry was a teenager pitching comic strips to local newspapers, an editor […]

CNHI Papers Drop Comics Page

It is becoming increasingly likely that the 70-80 newspapers that make up the CNHI (formerly the Community Newspaper Holding Inc.) are all dropping the comics page from their newspapers. Earlier this month we reported on the North of Boston Media Group, a subdivision of CNHI, dropping the comics (second item). 1800 miles southwest of Boston […]

CSotD: Living in the Ambient Noise

There’s so much Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose going around that there’s a danger of things not being seen as news anymore. This is not to be confused with Steve Bannon’s “flood of sh*t” policy, in which each new outrage drives the previous outrages from sight, though that is a related factor.We’re […]

Bill Watterson Took The Road Less Traveled

It is two and a half months before the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip will come to an end. It’s 1995 and Watterson is thirty-seven. He’s sitting at the desk where he’s worked for the last ten years, drawing the adventures of Calvin and his maybe-real or maybe-stuffed-toy tiger, Hobbes. Calvin and Hobbes runs in […]

CSotD: Father’s Day Funnies

Well, obviously. Father’s Day is kind of weird, because while men want acknowledgement I don’t think they’re as much into presentation as women, so that flowers or breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day is a good thing, but ties and coffee cups on Father’s Day don’t make much of an impression.The best Father’s Day I […]

Miss Cellany’s Miscellanea; or, Clearing the Queues

American-born comic writer now a Member of the British Empire, Mutt and Jeff the animated classics restored, Lynd Ward award winner talks cartooning, and a first and last look at a put-upon English pop. American-Born Comic Strip Writer Appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Judge Dredd co-creator and comic […]

Empire of Ink and other weekend whatnots

The history of newspapers! A Dick Tracy villain to fix the Reflecting Pool? The History of American Newspapers Here’s a book I’m looking forward to as much as a new history of comics. My interest in the history of newspapers grew out of my comic strip obsession. When I was a wee tyke newspaper editor […]

CSotD: Electric Dreamers

The UK is joining Australia and several other nations in restricting Internet use by kids under16. The most common restrictions are on user-to-user platforms like Facebook, Snapchat and others, though this site provides more specific information on how various countries have set up their bans.Clearly, Blower sees it as a performative act by PM Keir […]

Funnies Fun for Friday

With Fritzi Ritz and Phyl Fumble, Walt and Skeezix Wallet and Snuffy Smith, Slylock Fox and Olive and Popey and Maricela and The Pig Family, Arlo and Janis and Alfred, Ripley and not DeJoy, Percy Shelley and John Deering and Roy Thomas, Patrick McDonnell and Jane Goodall, Carmen and Winslow and Marshall, Garfield and Daddy, […]

CSotD: Friday Roundup

Jennings provides an overview of Trump’s adventure in Iran that emphasizes all the ways it was mishandled and winds up where most observers feel it did: With Iran at least “emboldened” if not actually stronger than before, though emboldened includes knowing they can turn the world’s economies on their heads by shutting down Hormuz.Though it […]

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