CSotD: Friday Funnies, post-holiday edition
That last panel of today’s Sherman’s Lagoon could be a poster. However, I appreciate the lead up, in which it…
December 2019
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Kin Hubbard Park Gets Abe Martin Stat…uh, Cutout
Popeye, Superman, Steve Canyon, Andy Capp, the Peanuts characters, Dick Tracy, Joe Palooka, and many more comic characters have statues…
Best Selling Comic Books – 2010s vs. 1960s
John Jackson Miller is THE statistics man as far as circulation numbers for comic books go. Here’s a look at…
Celebrate Kwanzaa With a Ray Billingsley Parable
Happy Kwanzaa! And to make this year more special Ray Billingsley has returned with a new Kwanzaa Tale. A decade…
CSotD: There’s Got To Be A Morning After
One of the facts of life for reporters is that the news is a 24/7 thing and someone is going…
CSotD: The 1944th Noel
Looking back 75 years, we find ourselves on the edge of victory but with plenty yet to go. There was…
Replacing The Pajama Diaries
Newspapers are starting to tell readers what will replace The Pajama Diaries when Terri Libenson retires the comic strip on…
David Horsey Gets Full-Page Seattle Times Cartoon
The Seattle Times, taking a page from their past… A few years ago, when The Seattle Times was relocating from…
“I sent him a few sketches and he liked them”
above: Specialty drawing by Ron Ferdinand NMCV:How did you get the job working on Dennis the Menace? Ron: I subscribed…
CSotD: Don’t they know it’s Christmas Eve?
Today’s The Other Coast pings a particularly sweet spot for me, because I remember asking my mother about the same…
Garfield Gets Hammered (Auctioned)
The Associated Press has picked up the story of Jim Davis and Heritage Auctions offering The Jim Davis Collection of…
Roundup of Best Cartoons of 2019 Roundups
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – when political cartoonists pick their favorite cartoons from the past year….
The New Yorker ‘Cartoon Takeover’ Issue
The Clowns are running The Circus. New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen explains how it came about: Every last one…
CSotD: Live Free or Die
A leftover from yesterday, this Pajama Diaries has been rattling around in my consciousness for a couple of reasons. One…
Sunday Funnies On Such a Winter’s Day
Its already a disappointing Yuletide season for me thanks to King Features. Neither Popeye or Popeye’s Cartoon Club celebrated the…