Posted on: August 16, 2021

When the Freckles and His Friends daily strip ended in 1971 Newspaper Enterprise Association supplied the first strip from September 20, 1915 for newspapers breaking the news to their readers. Which I guess is technically true, that was the first strip titled “Freckles and His Friends.” Merrill Blosser had only a few years of cartooning […]

Ed Hall drew this one a few days ago, as the Taliban resurgence was just beginning, and it all fell down about as fast as that. As appropriate a metaphor it is, it’s an ironic one in light of the continuing flood of “evacuating Saigon” cartoons, because, as noted the other day, Afghanistan is not […]