Sixty years ago, on June 5, 1962, Marvel Comics introduced the4th, 5th, and 6th super heroes of The Marvel Age of Comics. Of all the creators associated with those three comic books only Larry Lieber, the writer of the first Ant Man and Thor stories, remains. Marvel is celebrating the 60th anniversary of all […]
We’ll Start with the BIG news of the day – Popeye. I’ll note that Randy Miilholland has returned “Thimble Theatre” to the title panel. © King Features Syndicate While Popeye fanatic Joseph Nebus notes, among other comments, another landmark: Also, unless I’ve missed someone, Milholland will be only the second credited creator of […]
Publishers Weekly reports the death of Blanche Cirker. Blanche Cirker, co-founder of Dover Publications, died last week at the age of 104. Cirker and her husband, Hayward, who died in March 2000, founded Dover in 1941. Dover Publications was famous to comic strip fans as the publisher of “treasury-size” editions of Little Nemo […]
Doing comic strips about the end of the school year — or the beginning, for that matter — is tricky because of how widely school calendars vary, state to state. But, this being the week after Memorial Day, there are a flood of summer vacation strips and this Non Sequitur (AMS) — a rerun, but […]