With content by cream-of-the-crop illustrators like Hal Foster, Frank Godwin, James Montgomery Flagg, F. R. Gruger, William Meade Prince, and Creig Flessel and such best-selling authors as William Saroyan, Daphne de Maurier, Sinclair Lewis, Franz Werfel, Ayn Rand, and Erle Stanley Gardner, it’s a wonder King Features Syndicate’s Book-of-the-Month comic strip isn’t better known today. […]
Cartoonist and advertising artist Kirk Luehrs has passed away. Kirk Allan (Bro Kirk) Luehrs March 23, 1941 – August 1, 2022 From the obituary: He was a talented artist & writer who worked in advertising and had a successful comic strip the Oregonian of newspapers. He attended the University of Washington and Mount Angel […]
Premiering at Comics Kingdom, in the middle of the night with no advance notice, isBob Mankoff Presents: Show Me The Funny (Animal Edition). >edited to add< and Bob Mankoff Presents: Show Me The Funny. © Matthew Diffee From the ‘About’ page: This anthology series presented by Bob Mankoff and the cartoonists of CartoonStock promises […]
Tom Tomorrow demonstrates a pair of things Constant Readers have read here more than once. One of the most devastating tools in the journalist’s box is to simply quote a source accurately. It’s not that “you can’t make this stuff up.” It’s that you don’t have to. It adds up, in this case, to a […]