NOT Supporting Your Local Cartoonist
The news of The (Racine) Journal Times and the Kenosha News realigning their funny pages to present the same…
May 2019
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CSotD – Monday Mix
Mr. Fitz has been dealing a lot of insider-baseball humor lately, which only his fellow-teachers would really get. That’s his…
Editorial Cartoonist Chan Lowe Retires
After more than forty years editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe has decided to retire. Chan has spent most of that…
Happy National Cartoonists Day!
above: the famous B. Kliban cartoon, below: W. C. Morris from circa 1908 Both the above and many more…
New Comics Line-up is The Best of The Best
In Wisconsin two neighboring newspapers, The (Racine) Journal Times and the Kenosha News (both Lee Enterprises publications), have finished…
CSotD – Yahbut
My father used to get angry with my teenage self over “Yahbut,” which was how I too often responded to…
100 Years Ago Today – Harold Teen
above: The Love Life of Harold Teen debuts in the Chicago Tribune May 4, 1919 As Michael Vassallo…
May 11 – Help Family Circus Stamp Out Hunger
Every year the second Saturday of May brings the Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. To donate, just place…
CSotD: Mister, we could use some men like Herblock again
Matt Davies was, for a second time, awarded the Herblock Prize, and much as I dislike awards in general, I…
May 4 is Free Comic Book Day 2019
Today, May 4, 2019, is Free Comic Book Day! Along with the ones shown here there are plenty of superhero…
The New Dick Tracy Goes Retro
The current Dick Tracy Minit Mystery by Jim Doherty has Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz simulacra interviewing…
The Chicago Reader Quits Comics
Earlier this year the Chicago Reader began publishing a trio of comic strips. That now comes to an end…
World Press Freedom Day 2019
The 26th celebration of World Press Freedom Day Molina for Cartooning for Peace Foundation in Geneva …
CSotD: Friday Funnies – The way we heard it should be
Timing is everything in humor and I often find myself laughing at a panel because it happens to hit at…
Never Was Comic Strips – Jean Shepard
Jean Shepherd was a writer, humorist, satirist, actor, radio raconteur, TV & film personality and an American original. He…