Nobody seems to know how it started, when it started, why it started, who started it, or what the reason for the September 25 date is – but today is National Comic Book Day. Prickly City informs us of the holiday. © Scott Stantis; DC Comics Sally Forth also has a superhero theme. […]
A First and Last Entry Tad Burness was 30 and an aspiring cartoonist. According to Tad via Jalopnik: “In 1962, I was trying to sell a variety of comic features to newspaper syndicates, and as a bonus item I developed a once-a-week panel about old cars which I called Auto Album. Most editors weren’t interested […]
There’s such as thing as being “too smart for the room,” which generally signals a failure because the audience couldn’t keep up. And then there’s Macanudo (KFS), which is frequently, joyously too smart for the room. It probably limits his reach, but he probably doesn’t care. I didn’t recognize the name, but I got […]