KUSA-TV in Denver has an extended (20 minutes) segment featuring Reuben Award-winning cartoonist Ray Billingsley of Curtis fame and Where I’m Coming From cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft, the first Black woman cartoonist to be syndicated in mainstream (white) newspapers. Also included is Richard Prince who writes about diversity in the news media. The trio discuss the […]
Looper lists the Most Popular Peanuts Characters from worst to best. The only problem with the “Peanuts” gang is that some members are more lovable than others. Some of the Shulz [sic] toons are charming and imaginative enough to carry their own feature films, but some don’t have the charisma to carry a single comic […]
Cornered (AMS) opens today’s discussion, and the arms crossed posture is perfect. I’ll begin the topic by confessing that Constant Reader Bob Crittenden dropped me an email to very politely point out that, if I began the blog in 2010, yesterday was its 12th, not 11th Anniversary. The problem, I shamefacedly confessed, is that I […]
Just how old is Walt Wallet of Gasoline Alley?I have, with nothing to back it up, long ago decided Walt was born in the year 1900.With a Walt biography the subject of the current comic strip we may finally find out. 1900 still works with Walt in the Navy during World War I. But then […]