Tuesday’s Hi and Lois put me in mind of Sugar and Spike. © King Features Syndicate; DC Comics © Harry Bliss; Marvel Entertainment I don’t understand why Harry Bliss doesn’t give a nod to Jack Kirby for his occasional contributions. Ink Stained Synchronicity © Bill Griffith above; Tom Richmond below […]
Ray Billingsley didn’t much like his second-floor Harlem home on Bradhurst Avenue back then. It was affordable — this being the mid-’80s — but he felt isolated, and he knew crime was a threat: “One evening while in bed with the window open, I actually heard three guys planning on burglarizing my apartment.” Yet this […]
Guest Jumbler week ends today. Above are the illustrations that went with the puzzles. The puzzles in their entirety can be found supersizeable and in color at The Chicago Tribune. They can also be found, with nice Jeff Knurek(?) intros, at the Jumble Facebook page, where they also have worked up some really great billboards […]
The year 1959 marked a new wave for Peanuts. Charlie Brown’s sister, Sally, made her debut on May 26, 1959. Linus also first spoke about the Great Pumpkin in October of 1959. Not only was Schulz inventing new topics for his already popular characters, but his emotional side began to engulf the strip as well. On […]
Ann Telnaes offers a good reflection on what we may have just seen happen. I hadn’t expected either a full conviction on all charges or a full exoneration, so I’m a little gobsmacked at the moment, but I think the Rittenhouse verdict falls in somewhere among the acquittals of OJ Simpson on charges of murdering […]