Cartooning and Comic Strips
How he does a Sally Forth pseudo-wallpaper strip. From cartoonist Jim Keefe: Artist Fun Fact: When working on a Sunday…
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Rarity: Great Disasters in American History
October and November of 1936 saw dozens of newspapers print six daily format comic strips relating some catastrophes of the…
CSotD: Revisiting Iraq
Let me lead off today’s retrospective by admitting I don’t have dates on all of these cartoons and they may…
2022 National Newspaper Awards Nominees
The National Newspaper Awards announced the nominees for the 23 categories. The National Newspaper Awards were established in 1949 by…
Of Cartooning and Cartoonists
Willie Ito, Michael Maslin, Vonn Sumner, Charlie Daniel, Ed Steckley, Trina Robbins, Lee Mars, Jules Rivera, more Long time animator…
CSotD: Monday Round-up
Flo’s Diner in Non Sequitur (AMS) had a new customer this past week, one who could rival Captain Eddie in…
Newspaper Well Check/Death Watch
Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab: Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, should wake up each morning thankful for the existence of…
Robert Moncrieff – RIP
M.D. and cartoonist Robert Moncrieff has passed away. From the obituary: Robert (Bob) Moncrieff of Monte Sereno, California, passed away…
CSotD: Of Banks and Busts and Sealing Whacks
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that Kal Kallaugher, who cartoons for the Economist among other clients, should demonstrate some…
Gaming The Funny Pages
When Joe Wos heard that his MazeToon runs side-by-side with Jeff Keane’s The Family Circus in Victoria he devised a…
CSotD: Random bets; Random payoffs
Let’s start at the mellow end of the scale for a change. Joe Heller makes a March Madness joke, and,…
Back in My Day (Some Comics History)
A Look at the Future from the 200 Years Ago What did the future look like in 1820s Britain? Poking…
CSotD: The Wars Within
Ann Telnaes lays out the real situation for anyone who thought Dobbs was a single movement. People who predicted that…
Updating King Features Weekly Service – Updated
King Features regularly issues a directory for its syndicated offerings, but this week they surprised us by putting up a…
CSotD: Heaven, Hell, Beer and so forth
Well, Arlo (AMS), the problem is that you’re celebrating the wrong saint. If you wait two days, you can have…