Posted on: June 12, 2022

History of the Comic Strip (in a nutshell) Through 1960  Rudolphe Töpffer – Primitive comic book creator. His books were known as “Graphic Literature”. He developed the concept of the cartoon face more than anyone previous. With a jump from Töpffer to Hearst/Pulitzer/Outcault and with short blurbs listing some of the more important comics up […]

Today’s F-Minus (AMS) touched off an odd bit of nostalgia, because when I was a small lad, we had a mother-and-daughter teacher team — Mom was music, daughter was art — who were reportedly convinced that the poles were about to swap any minute, at which point the land would be flooded, and so kept […]