The public birth of King Kong, the movie monster, was 90 years ago. The movie debuted in New York City on March 2, 1933. The movie went national on April 7, 1933. Here we celebrate the first comic strip appearance. On March 27, 1933 some newspapers started running the RKO Radio Pictures supplied promotional King […]
Take It From the Tinkersons by Bill Bettwy is nearing its tenth anniversary. The comic strip began April 1, 2013 when King Features began distributing it. But from submission to syndication wasn’t instant: It took about 10 years of persistent submissions for a company to finally bite, Bettwy said. “I don’t even know how many […]
I worked at a paper where this Pardon My Planet (KFS) pretty much described the company health plan. There were fewer than a dozen of us and so the cost of insurance was not only massive to begin with but vulnerable to individual claims: If one person had gotten seriously ill, the entire system would […]