Funny Books and Funny Pages Synchronicity
Comic strips yesterday and today seems to have jumped the gun on National Cartoonists Day. Superheroes were the theme for…
April 2022
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Comics Kingdom Bogarts Legalization Nation
Comics Kingdom picked April 20th to add Legalization Nation to its lineup. (Unknown if they added it at 4:20 a.m….
CSotD: Laff Break
Jason Chatfield takes a shot at audience members who seem to wish they’d been the ones invited to speak on…
Triumph and Tragedy and Things
2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize Winners The Beat and The Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to reveal the winners…
CSotD: Intruder in the Days of Dust
Derf Backderf’s short comment, as he wrapped up this year’s MOCCA Festival, was enough to send me scrambling to…
Ernie Anderson – New Editorial Cartoonist
According to Lewiston (Maine) Sun Journal columnist Mark LaFlamme: So, I was just hanging around, minding my own business, when…
Stripper’s Guide Moves to Comic Strip History
Comic strip historian Allan Holtz is moving his Stripper’s Guide blog to Comic Strip History website. Hello, fellow strippers. After…
CSotD: The Dogs Don’t Bark, The Caravan Moves On
A different sort of Juxtaposition to start the day: The famous lines from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Silver Blaze,” combined…
Comic Strip Easter Eggs and other stuff
“An Easter Egg is a term used to describe a hidden detail …” Today’s Sally Forth has an obvious homage…
The Easter Bird by Walt Scott
Those Disney and Newspaper Enterprise Association Christmas strips get all the fame and glory, while the Easter strips get forgotten….
CSotD: Repeat as needed
Morten Morland offers an Easter-themed bit of Moskva Mockery. Most of today’s Easter cartoons, as with most mandatory holiday cartoons,…
Ayla Kreelak’s Smidge and Friends Returns
We have previously mentioned Nunavut’s young cartoonist Ayla Kreelak and her comic strip Smidge and Friends who got a short…
CSotD: War Within You and Without You
Punchbooks has posted this cartoon from April 16, 1919, in which British Prime Minister David Lloyd George cheerfully presents the…
Banned in the U.S. Schools; Banned on Webtoon
PEN America has published a report on the rise of books being banned in public schools. Book bans in public…
Alison Bechdel Wins International Humanities Prize
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, known for her groundbreaking, richly layered depictions of queer life and family relationships, will receive the 2022…