Happy Birthday Jim Davis
Jim Davis was born July 28, 1945. Creator of the most widely syndicated comic strip, the extremely popular Garfield. To…
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Don’t Know Much About History
I have a fascination with comics history, and a deep a appreciation of comics historians. My meager knowledge is buttressed…
CSotD: Midweek Funnies
Based on Sunday’s Wallace the Brave, Will Henry is apparently the only cartoonist who knows that tin-can telephones require a…
JumpStart’s Robb Armstrong Interviewed
In Minneapolis JumpStart by Robb Armstrong replaces Stone Soup in the Sunday Star Tribune. “Jump Start” has run in the…
CSotD: Credibility Checks
I’m not going to single out any particular cartoonist on this first element, because it’s a large enough accusation and…
Mark Trail Practices Conservation With Reruns
James Allen‘s last Mark Trail daily comic strip was Saturday, July 25, 2020: Monday, July 27, 2020 began a different…
Stone Soup 1995 – 2020 (Details)
After Mike’s remarkable appreciation of Stone Soup there’s not much left to say but the basics. Jan Eliot is not…
CSotD: One Last Serving of Stone Soup
A quiet end to a great comic strip, and if the last episode of Stone Soup reminds you of Calvin…
2020 Eisner Award Winners
The San Diego Comic-Con (Comic-Con International) announced this years winners of the Eisner Awards in a virtual ceremony. There were…
CSotD: Weekend roundup
If we’re going to have a round-up, we might as well start with a round-up, and, besides, any excuse to…
British Cartoonist Brian Walker – RIP
British cartoonist Brian Walker has passed away. Brian H. N. Walker March 22, 1926 – May(?) 2020 cartoonist, author,…
Magazine Cartoonists Going the Way of The Dodo? – update
July 23: The dearth of magazines buying gag cartoons does not bode well. ‘Nightmare!’ is how The Spectator’s cartoon editor…
Comic Strip Shenanigans
Let’s begin with the imminent end of the Stone Soup comic strip. The Columbus Dispatch has picked Frazz to replace…
CSotD: Friday Funnies … Recalculating …
I will confess to feeling much like the fellow in Brewster Rockit, and I say “confess” because I feel kind…
Seven Days Explains It All
Seven Days, Vermont’s weekly alternative paper, is getting some negative feedback for its choices in rearranging their comics pages. As…