Since we are celebrating 40 year anniversaries today let’s go to Scotland where… “Births, Deaths, Marriages and Smirk, but not necessarily in that order”, is how someone once told me they read The Shetland Times – probably apocryphal – then of course there are the back pages. A cartoon is a form of expression that […]
On this very date in 1982, Sally Forth entered our lives. Okay, it didn’t technically enter my life until 1997 when I was hired to write the strip, simply because it did not run in my hometown paper. Of course, a lot has changed with the strip since it premiered four decades ago, including the […]
With the Sally Forth comic strip celebrating its 40th anniversary today (and all week), cartoonist Jim Keefe is taking the opportunity to recall the time he met Sally Forth creator Greg Howard, accompanied by Jim’s Sally Forth mentor Craig MacIntosh. I got to meet Greg Howard just once in 2012 before I took over the […]
The first For Better or For Worse Sunday issue of 2022 was not only well received at GoComics, but in newspapers. A letter to The Baltimore Sun: I had to comment on the wonderful message in the comic strip, “For Better or For Worse” (Jan. 2) by Lynn Johnston. … I read it several times […]
Might as well start the day in puzzled mode, since I don’t have a particular hobby horse to ride. Specifically, I’m puzzled by “The trouble with instant coffee,” in today’s Pardon My Planet (KFS) because it suggests that there’s something that isn’t troubling about instant coffee. Which is to say that, while I agree the […]
The Public Domain post got me to thinking there was one 1925 continuity that ran into 1926 and we might as well show the complete run here. J. R. Williams’ Out Our Way began in 1922 and in a few years it had become a very popular comic panel, appearing in many newspapers across […]