In the Land of the Gannetts
Last Summer the good news was that Gannett/Gatehouse was unloading the local weeklies they had accumulated back into the hands…
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CSotD: Laugh Break
Note the interplay in this Wallace the Brave (AMS): First, Rose is the right character to have a turquoise necklace,…
Sketching the Disneyverse
Disney Sketchbook Disney+’s new six-part original Series Sketchbook will give “an insider’s look into the animation process” as studio artists…
CSotD: Celebrating Olga on Patrick’s Feast Day
St. Olga’s feast day is July 11, but given who she was and what she did, St. Patrick should yield…
Hal Foster Layouts for J.C. Murphy Prince Valiant
In 1970 Prince Valiant creator Hal Foster was nearing 80 years and decided to slow down. After interviewing a few…
Wednesday Roundup Countdown
Taking a cue from those Countdown to Christmas newspaper front page comic panels Brett Koth has adapted the idea to…
CSotD: Ephemera Should Leave You
Greg Kearney explains the US Senate’s move to put the United States out of sync with most of the rest…
The New New Adventures of Queen Victoria
Early last year Pab Sungenis ended his The New Adventures of Queen Victoria. Then very early this year Pab and…
Hey Kids! Comics! – A New Season of Books
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
CSotD: Reply Hazy – Try Again
We’ll start the day with a quick, unexpected history lesson, courtesy of Jeff Danziger (WPWG). I went to look up…
The Art of Living with Grant Snider
Mike Rhode writes: Since I first saw his cartoons about books and reading on the next-to-last page of the New…
Xenozoic Valiant – Mark Schultz Interviewed
Since its debut in Death Rattle #8 in 1986, Mark Schultz’s post-apocalyptic adventure series has had an irregular release schedule,…
CSotD: Confronting, or possibly avoiding, reality
Constant Readers will not be surprised that this Bizarro (KFS) made me laugh. The pun itself is good: The way…
Ukranian Postage Stamp : “Russian Warship Go … “
“Russian warship, go f*ck yourself!” That was the epic response from a small group of Ukrainian soldiers defending Snake Island…
Cartoon Uncle Sam Debuts March 13, 1852
It has come down through the history books that Uncle Sam, a term applied to the U.S.A. since The War…