Beloved cartoonist Al Jaffee has passed away. From The Washington Post: Al Jaffee, the ingenious Mad magazine illustrator who was as adept at creating wacky cartoon gags as he was at producing caustic social commentary, and whose drawings, he cheerfully suggested, helped corrupt the minds of generations of young Americans, died April 10 at a […]
Brian Hibbs at Comics Beat does a deep dive into the 2022 NPD Book Scan Report. Ludicrously, this is the twentieth annual report of something that is hard to exactly perceive and understand: the size and shape of the sales of graphic novels and trade paperbacks through the book store market, as seen through the […]
Stephen Collins wrote a cheerful alternative holiday cartoon, starring the pagan goddess Eostre, who may or may not have inspired many of our Easter traditions, as this research into the story suggests. That article traces Eostre back to a mention by the Venerable Bede, which was picked up by a trusting Jacob Grimm, and then […]