CSotD: No boxes, no returns
Lola (AMS) starts off a post-Christmas posting with a decidedly non-Christmas gag, since Frosty the Snowman is no more a…
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Making a List
Celebrating Christmas Comic Strip Style Brian Cronin at CBR has quite a list on his Comic Strip Advent Calendar showing…
CSotD: Have Yourself A Myrrhy Little Christmas
(Bizarro — KFS) (Loose Parts — AMS) (Rubes — Creators) I’m not sure how all three of these cartoonists…
The Adorable Snowman (A Slobbovian Tale)
In December of 1959 Li’l Abner gathered his family to read a Christmas tale. Cartoonist Al Capp used his Li’l…
CSotD: Peace On Earth to Someone or Other
Martyn Turner protests the lack of peace at this Yuletide, and he’s right that universal peace has not descended upon…
Christmas Week Funnies Without Christmas
Not every comic is about Christmas this week, though Macanudo gifted us with an earworm. © Liniers And that’s all…
Refreshing the Reports (Updates)
Bessie Mae Kelley, Kieran Castaño, Robert Ripley, Harry Bliss, Hergé Alex Jay took note of the Bessie Mae Kelley stories…
Syracuse JumpStarted Robb Armstrong’s Career
Philadelphia native and cartoonist Robb Armstrong has been making waves and history his entire career. He created his comic strip…
CSotD: Cold comfort
The Barn (Creators) gets today’s Excellent Timing Award for a piece done, no doubt, weeks in advance but that happened…
Richard Kemplin – RIP
Editorial cartoonist Richard Kemplin has passed away. Richard Manley (Dick) Kemplin December 11, 1930 – November 25, 2022 From…
A Winter Wander Land – Miscellaneous Items
Washington, D.C. – A Search for the Source The Library of Congress found the cartoonist who created it (Paul Gregg)…
CSotD: This is no time for facts
David Rowe once more takes advantage of the 16-hour time difference between Washington and Sydney to comment on Vlodimir Zelenskyy’s…
Ach, 125 Years of Those Katzenjammer Kids – Updated, Now a First and Last(?) Entry
The original December 12, 2022 item: The Katzenjammer Kids first appeared December 12, 1897. Above: the first issue of The…
The Very Model of a Modern American Santa
Since the name of Thomas Nast came up the other day, let’s make note that it was 160 Christmases ago…
Mike Peters’ Strip & Editoons Go Andrews McMeel
Cartoonist Mike Peters is taking his Mother Goose & Grimm comic strip and his editorial cartoons from King Features Syndicate…