From a King Features Syndicate press release: King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst and home to some of the world’s most popular entertainment characters, is growing its global publishing program under the direction of publishing director Christina Nix Lynch to develop new partnerships for original content. The expansion includes new territories, titles, formats and […]
[I]f you were looking for a name for a cartoonist, you couldn’t do much better than Scrawls. And that’s exactly how Sam C. Rawls signed his editorial cartoons and his comic strip—he was one of those rara avis who does both— and every syllable is exactly the truth, no fictional make-believe in sight. But […]
A number of people have recently treated us to a number of old public domain comics. From the National Institutes of Health and their National Library of Medicine comes The Tooth-Ache by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank ca. 1850, a comic book consisting of forty-four sequential panels. Still in the 19th […]
Jen Sorensen leads off today’s continuing coverage of the end of the war in Afghanistan, a war which, as we all know from current commentary, was entirely planned and carried out by Joe Biden. Or something. The Economist even solicited analysis from Henry Kissinger, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for having brought […]