Cartoonist Jim Sizemore has passed away. JAMES EDWARD (JIM) SIZEMORE OCTOBER 3, 1937 – SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 From the obituary: Jim had been a Visual Information Specialist in the Social Security Administration’s Art Department in Woodlawn for 23 years until he retired early, in 1988, to become a free-lance cartoonist. above: Jim’s […]
The Modern Comics Page – 1964 From Keith Handley: Hello. I just got the August-September 1964 issue of the Gannetter (a magazine for staff members of Gannett newspapers, radio stations and television stations). In it were a series of articles by newspaper editors describing some of the experiences and decision-making methods in editing a comics […]
The Smithsonian.com is reporting on a group archeologists’ discovery of ancient “comics” featuring characters drawn on cave walls and speaking with “speech bubbles.” From the piece: Perhaps the most striking feature for modern viewers are the little captions that appear next to some of the figures. “These 60 or so texts painted in black, some […]
If you came here for refuge from the storm, apologies, but, since I’m locked into CXC coverage starting tomorrow, we need to look at yesterday’s weirdness a little today or it’ll be totally outdated. We’ll get to to the funnies in a minute. Adam Zyglis takes the prize for this cartoon that wraps up a […]