There is a growing and welcome sub-genre of comics history that deals with African American cartoonists and the work they have produced. Below, some books off the shelf dealing with the subject. Invisible Men by Ken Quattro is the most recent of the books about Black cartoonists. This deals with the Golden Age of comic […]
Famed radio and tv announcer Bill Owens was born February 1, 1931. Wikipedia profiles Bill and his career with two sentences devoted to our area of trivia: Bill also wrote the popular syndicated panel “Return With Us To…” with drawing by comic strip artist Don Sherwood. This nostalgic remembrance of the past enjoyed […]
I always enjoy Agnes (Creators), but never more than today, when she is slogging through the snow and kvetching over a month that even Gilbert & Sullivan dismissed as “beastly.” Which is a good time to point out that Groundhog Day is ridiculous because it’s far too dependent on location, and was originally a badger […]