Wrapping Up the Old with a Year-End Roundup
Some miscellaneous items from the recent past. On this day 25 years ago, Bill Watterson’s iconic comic strip Calvin and…
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Auld Lang Syne: Cartoonist Chronicles-201231
Some articles and essays dealing with comic history from this past week. A sad fact of life is that Rob…
Cartoonist Interviews: Billingsley, Donnelly, Scott
The newest Visual Arts Journal features Michael Tisserand interviewing Ray Billingsley. Read the entire interview here. Comics DC interviews…
CSotD: Happy New Year, if you can find one
Can’t accuse Tim Campbell (WPWG) of sugar-coating things. Granted, we’ve got vaccines now, but even if everyone got them, it…
The Comics Research Bibliography 2020 Edition, Your Resource Source, Now Available
Over 1200 pages long with more than 1200 new entries, this is a bibliography of articles and books on all…
CSotD: It’s Mitchcraft!
There isn’t much to say about Mitch McConnell, and Ann Telnaes (WashPost) appears to have said it all right here….
Inquiring About Signe Wilkinson News
Billy Penn informs Philadelphians about area news, and the big news in Philadelphia these days is Signe Wilkinson‘s retirement. Pulitzer…
Yesterday’s Toons Today – More of 2020 in Review
Part Two of The Best Editorial Cartoons of 2020. Possibly the most famous cartoon of 2020 is by Mike Luckovich,…
CSotD: Tomorrow’s News Today
(Pia Guerra – The Nib) (Benjamin Slyngstad) I’m starting with a Juxtaposition because I don’t want to single out a…
David Mruz – RIP
Comics and animation historian David Mruz has passed away. David Richard Mruz February 11, 1951 – December 20. 2020…
CSotD: Friday Funnies come on a Monday this week
What makes Agnes (Creators) work so well is that Agnes and Trout really are like Lucy and Ethel: They come…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
photos via Steve Milloy and Matt Wuerker For the second time in ten days The Washington Post gave Ann…
A Cartoon Review of 2020
Thought there would be a lot more “Our Cartoonist Looks Back on 2020” articles on this last Sunday of the…
Andy Capp Revisited
Six weeks ago I mentioned the absence of Roger Mahoney‘s name in the in-strip credits line for the Andy Capp…
CSotD: Last Sunday of the Year
Speed Bump (Creators) speaks for me. A year can’t be evil, and I refuse to sit around feeling sorry for…