Incitement to Riot 1898 – Cartoonist Chronicles
Racist Cartoons Help Incite an 1898 North Carolina Massacre>> Warning: historically racist caricature and content << When a mob bent…
February 2021
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Kilroy Was Here, Ziggy Is Here
Later this year Ziggy will celebrate 50 years as a syndicated comic panel/strip. On 27 June 1971, a new comic…
CSotD: I read the news today, oh boy
Francis (AMS) leads today because, for all the bonding in a hyperconnected world, we Americans are still awfully fixated on…
Alumnus At Large: Ray Billingsley
The School of Visual Arts highlights cartoonist Ray Billingsley with an interview. Raised in Harlem, Ray Billingsley was still a…
Gary Brookins’ Brand New Shoe?
February 15, ’21 saw the first signed daily Shoe comic strip by Gary Brookins in five months. There is no…
CSotD: The future of political cartoons (if any)
This isn’t actually an editorial cartoon, except that it is. It’s one of HJ Ford‘s illustrations for Andrew Lang’s 1894…
Comic Strips and Cartoons and This and That
Smidge and Friends by Ayla Kreelak The weekly Nunatsiaq News has introduced a new comic strip by a young local…
CSotD: 40 days more honored in the breech
(Grand Avenue – AMS) (Joe Heller) Start the day with a Juxtaposition, because tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which starts the…
CARTOONIST PROfiles Archives
A treasure trove for cartooning fans is now available! The Internet Archive has made available the run of Jud Hurd’s…
Jimmy Margulies, Tom Batiuk – Zoom Zoom
Short notice for a couple of Tuesday, February 16 events. Join cartoonist Jimmy Margulies live online tomorrow night as he…
What?! Gays on the Comics Page??!!
Leading into Valentine’s Day the Judge Parker comic strip had two people profess love for each other: That was a…
Hey Kids! Comics! Presidential Library
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2021 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
CSotD: Monday Merriment
Real Life Adventures (AMS) asks the question on all our minds: “What’s the deal with mattresses?” Well, there’s also the…
Dear Heart – Romance Comic Strips
By the time the comic strips showcased below came around there had been romance in comic strips. Eventually love became,…
CSotD: Happiness and other fairy tales
Today’s Pardon My Planet (KFS) provides a coincidental coda to the impeachment, because, come on now, what did you expect?…