Happy 100th Birthday Skeezix!
100 years ago today in Gasoline Alley (from the New York Daily News): Over the years Jim Scancarelli has used…
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Allan Burns and the Complete(?) Younger Set
Cartoonist and television writer Allan Burns has passed away. Allan Pennington BurnsMay 18, 1935 – January 30, 2021 From the…
CSotD: Back to School (maybe)
We’re starting to move kids back into the schoolrooms, and Signe Wilkinson (AMS) questions the wisdom of the move. There…
S. Clay Wilson Death Reported Worldwide
The death of S. Clay Wilson is being widely reported. Violent, obscene and scatological, Mr. Wilson’s hyperbolic stories — full…
Gerald Lip – RIP
British artist Gerald Lip has passed away. Gerald LipMay 12, 1929 – January 28, 2021 newspaper cartoon editor, comic letterer,…
CSotD: Villains and heroes
I noted the other day that the opening of the impeachment trial, and particularly the lackluster nature of Trump’s defense,…
“Learn to Draw Cartoons” with Rick Stromoski
From the Berkshire Eagle: The Bushnell-Sage Library’s February program, “Learn to Draw Cartoons,” will be presented from 3 to 4…
SVA Is Proud of Alumus Jerry Craft
The School of Visual Arts hails one of its own: Author and cartoonist Jerry Craft (BFA 1984 Media Arts) made…
Longest Running Comic Character at 120 Years
The St. Louis Post Dispatch has regularly featured the Weatherbird on its front page since 1901. Since February 11, 1901…
Profiling – Cartoonist Chronicles210211
Antonio vs. Fidel and Spy vs. Spy But he was always careful that neither spy ever defeated the other because…
CSotD: A Break in the Non-Action
Joel Pett (Trib) has it pegged: Conviction is not the only goal in this impeachment, and that’s a good thing…
Cheap Thrills Cuisine: Chef Peppi’s First and Last
It’s Wednesday, the day set aside for Chef Peppi’s Cheap Thrills Cuisine – but no more. The last recipe on…
Alan King – RIP
Canadian artist and cartoonist Alan King has passed away. Alan Howard King1947 – February 8, 2021 Guy Badeaux is…
“It’s All Relative” by John Potter, New Eco-cartoon
The Mountain Journal, a journalistic watchdog of The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, has recently engaged artist John Potter as an editorial…
A Handful of Updates
Henry Martin A little drawing appeared around Reunions in 1983. It showed a smiling tiger strolling into Murray-Dodge Hall to…