Comic Strip Easter Eggs and other stuff
“An Easter Egg is a term used to describe a hidden detail …” Today’s Sally Forth has an obvious homage…
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The Easter Bird by Walt Scott
Those Disney and Newspaper Enterprise Association Christmas strips get all the fame and glory, while the Easter strips get forgotten….
CSotD: Repeat as needed
Morten Morland offers an Easter-themed bit of Moskva Mockery. Most of today’s Easter cartoons, as with most mandatory holiday cartoons,…
Ayla Kreelak’s Smidge and Friends Returns
We have previously mentioned Nunavut’s young cartoonist Ayla Kreelak and her comic strip Smidge and Friends who got a short…
CSotD: War Within You and Without You
Punchbooks has posted this cartoon from April 16, 1919, in which British Prime Minister David Lloyd George cheerfully presents the…
Banned in the U.S. Schools; Banned on Webtoon
PEN America has published a report on the rise of books being banned in public schools. Book bans in public…
Alison Bechdel Wins International Humanities Prize
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, known for her groundbreaking, richly layered depictions of queer life and family relationships, will receive the 2022…
Hey Kids! Comics! – Tax Your Bookselves
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through…
CSotD: Dampening Dubiosity
Glen LeLievre leads off today’s roundup of dubious pieces and dubious claims, with a cartoon that has been getting a…
Cartoon and Comic Strip News Briefs
Sorry about the tight deadline (April 20, 2022) but here’s a fun project for the cartoonist in your family. RubeGoldberg.com…
Happy 90th Angelo Torres
Comic book and comic strip artist Angelo Torres joins our Senior Strippers as he turn 90 years old, having a…
CSotD: Bans, Banns and other taxing despair
I really wanted to decompress from political stress with some funny stuff today, but just when I thought I was…
Pickles and Loose Parts Move to Andrews McMeel – updated
A couple months ago we noted that the Washington Post Writers Group was “winding down” its syndicated editorial cartoon service….
CSotD: Clowns with Flamethrowers
Jen Sorensen describes the lack of actual, principled ideas in our current world, an example of sarcasm in defense of…
Jeannie Schulz to be Awarded NCS Silver T-Square, plus a 2022 Reubens Timeline
The National Cartoonist Society has announced that Jeannie Schulz will receive the Silver T-Square at this year’s Reuben Awards ceremony….