Posted on: May 17, 2021

Pop Culture scholar and historian M. Thomas Inge has passed away. Milton Thomas (Tom) Inge March 18, 1936 – May 15, 2021 As CBR noted in their subhed: “M. Thomas Inge [was] one of the very first academics to cover comics as a college course and one of the earliest scholarly comics writer[s].” Tom Inge […]

This is hardly new: It’s an illustration from a 1903 book of nursery rhymes by Charles Robinson, who did much more elaborate work elsewhere and go have a look, because it will be worth your while though you can also read that nursery rhyme book here. As with most nursery rhymes, there are a kabillion interpretations […]