Haya kef Pajama Diaries
Newspaper comics readers might notice something different in their papers when browsing the funnies. The space where Jill Kaplan, a…
January 2020
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MAD Magazine Lives (in MADison Magazine)
THE spoof magazine, MAD itself, got spoofed by Madison Magazine. From Madison Magazine: We’ve gone MAD! Don’t think we haven’t…
Snopes Verifies Viral Calvin and Hobbes Strip
On occasion an old comic strip, which can be linked to current world events, will go viral. Also on occasion…
CSotD: Foiled again!
I remember reading some swashbuckler in which, at the very start, the roughnecks who wielded broadswords were complaining about Frenchmen…
Ed-Op Cartoonist Jerry Holbert Battling Dementia
Former editorial cartoonist Jerry Holbert and his wife Cheryl are struggling with a rare and incurable form of dementia. After…
Real World Events Interrupt ‘Mutts’ Schedule
A disaster half a world away has lead Patrick McDonnell to replace a week of Mutts. above: from The Art…
CSotD: Waiting for Nuremberg
(Mo) (Non Sequitur) (Arlo and Janis) “Where’s your social consciousness?” Abbie Hoffman screamed, and then broke into giggles…
Little Oop, and other Sunday Funnies
Commenters on the Little Oop site seem upset about the school being buildings rather than caves, though the school has…
John Branch on Creating Local Editorial Cartoons
With no salaried editorial cartoonists in the state of Texas, the larger newspapers rely on freelancers for cartoons about local…
Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker Talk Dustin
The Lawton (Oklahoma) Constitution adds Dustin to its lineup today. (I’m guessing to fill the space made by the retiring…
All You Need Is … Love Is…
Love Is… sticking around for 50 years. It was fifty years ago today that the Love Is… comic panel by…
CSotD: In lieu of a leader
I like Bob Moran’s presidential portrait, since so many people have been drawing parallels between the 1920s and the current…
Origins: The Hilary Price-Rina Piccolo Partnership
At The Richmond (KY) Register: Beginning in the Tuesday, Jan. 7, edition of The Register, a new daily comic debuts….
‘Ask Shagg’ ends, ‘Caption It!’ begins
After 42 years Peter Guren has decided to end his Ask Shagg weekly comic. The final Ask Shagg comic will…
CSotD: The Eve of Destruction
It’s hard to pick a starting point today, but Pat Bagley offers a good reflection on things, because we’ve sure…