CSotD: Snippets
We’ll lead off today with snippets of things you should go check out, starting with Ann Telnaes’s longer piece on…
February 2019
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Going, Going, Gone! …Sold for $12,000
The early Little Orphan Annie original art up for auction I had mentioned elsewhere has sold. August 26, 1924…
Comics Notes and News
Comics Related Oscars The Oscars are tomorrow night. So Torsten Adair, at The Beat, has assembled past Oscars that…
CSotD: Things We Should Already Know
Kal Kallaugher describes a central issue in the campaign to “Make America Great Again” that goes beyond border walls and…
CSotD: Friday Funnies – Feb 22
How better to kick off a Friday Funnies than with a Juxtaposition screen shot to show exactly how it fell…
“Sailor Bob” Griggs – RIP
Cartooning children’s show host ‘Sailor Bob’ Griggs has passed away. Robert Thomas (Bob) Griggs (aka Sailor Bob) November 21,…
FYI: ‘How To Cat’ Not For Print Syndication
I’m sure most of you, like me, regularly check the various print syndication homepages to see what, if anything,…
CSotD: ‘Dare to be stupid’ was a joke, folks
When I gave the advice “Dare to be stupid!” what I meant was that silly jokes are fun. I wasn’t…
France Awash in Garfield
A stretch of coastline in France has reported an unusual item repeatedly washing up on its shores over the…
First and Last – Brenda Starr
In June 1940, the same month Will Eisner’s The Spirit debuted his Comic Book Section, Dale Messick‘s Brenda Starr first…
CSotD: New Beginnings and the S.O.S.
(Rip Kirby) (Big Ben Bolt) Call this the “Juxtaposition of Nagging.” Over in the Vintage section at Comics Kingdom, Rip…
A Campaign to Restore Non Sequitur – update
While newspapers continue to drop Non Sequitur (though at a far slower rate), those who have dropped it continue to…
More Miscellaneous Comics Copy
The Return of Maakies??!! Tony Millionaire‘s alternative comic strip Maakies ran from 1994 to 2016. It kinda returned in…
CSotD: On the Nature of Reality
We start with a mere fragment of an Existential Comics episode, the rest of which is hilarious, in which a…
Some Recent Comics Shtuff
It’s Gahan Wilson’s Birthday! Happy Birthday to Gahan Wilson. To celebrate here’s a recent audio interview with the master…