CSotD: Escalating Events
It was seven years ago today that presidential candidate Donald Trump rode down an escalator to the cheers of a…
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Wednesday (We’re All Over the Place) Roundup
© RL Crabb Let’s start with a cartoonist’s cartoon about cartooning. © EC Publications I grew up…
Webtoon NYC Advertising Blitz Riles Comic Creator
Heidi MacDonald reports on the WEBTOON advertising blitz: I don’t take the subway very often here in NYC, but other…
Robb Armstrong’s JumpStart Goes Hollywood
Deadline breaks the news: CBS has put in development JumpStart, a multi-camera comedy based on Robb Armstrong’s long-running comic strip….
CSotD: Laughter, sometimes uncomfortable
I think we could use a few laughs at the moment, though they needn’t be completely frivolous. Man Overboard, as…
Hey Kids! Comics! Not just for Grads and Dads
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
CSotD: The $250 Million Elephant Drop
It was all a con. Matt Wuerker (Politico) extracts the most damning revelation from yesterday’s Jan 6 Committee Hearing: Trump…
Bret Blevins Identified as Phantom Ghost Artist
The Phantom cover art by Bret Blevins and Terry Austin The Chronicle Chamber has revealed that Bret Blevins is the…
Ghost Artists on Judge Parker and The Phantom
Beginning today Mike Manley has handed over his comic strips to other artists. Hopefully this is a temporary issue until…
Stuart Carlson – RIP
Editorial Cartoonist Stuart Carlson has passed away. Stuart Scott Carlson September 1955 – June 10, 2022 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel…
The Bog Beast of the Bayou
The modern day swamp creature began with Theodore Sturgeon’s 1940 short story “It.” It would be adapted as a…
CSotD: Living in an Exceptional Nation
I’m writing this a few hours before the second of the Jan 6 Committee public hearings goes on the air,…
Comic History – A Comic Chronicles Installment
History of the Comic Strip (in a nutshell) Through 1960 Rudolphe Töpffer – Primitive comic book creator. His books were…
CSotD: Looking backwards
Today’s F-Minus (AMS) touched off an odd bit of nostalgia, because when I was a small lad, we had a…
The Past Week’s Comic Strips
The past week starts with today’s future Zippy where Griffy refuses to modernize. © Bill Griffith Check earlier in…