Dennis the Menace Gets Royal Stamp Treatment The Beano comic is celebrating its 70th anniversary and to mark the milestone Royal Mail has released 10 special stamps using pictures from the comic strip. Dennis was first brought to life in a pencil sketch in January 1951 by Scottish illustrator and cartoonist David Law along with […]
All three 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalists in the Editorial Cartooning category were in the news recently which means the Pulitzer No-Prize was a topic. Boing Boing takes the Pulitzer Board to task in a short item castigating them for not picking a winner, especially Ruben Bolling whose Tom the Dancing Bug they publish weekly. © […]
The San Diego Comic-Con has announced the comics writers who will be awarded The Bill Finger Award this year. Comic-Con is proud to announce six writers who contributed greatly to the history of comics have been selected to receive the 2021 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. The selection, made by […]
As you’re reading the blog this morning, I’m somewhere in the Western Adirondacks, so, when I was deciding on a vacation post, I looked at this day in history and found that this was the date in 1958 that they began letting the water into the St. Lawrence Seaway, which was a big deal then […]