While comics have appeared in print since the late 1800s, it wasn’t until 1989 that “Black women characters drawn by a Black woman’s hand have been given a voice on the comics page in the mainstream press,” says cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft. Thirty-four years ago, her comic strip, “Where I’m Coming From,” was first published in […]
Eighty years ago Batman and Robin swung from comic books onto newspaper pages on October 25, 1943. The 13th Dimension presents the first 13 comic strips by Bob Kane with Bill Finger and Charles Paris. ********** Further back in time Euronews takes a look at “The day the US invented the newspaper comic strip. Maybe.” […]
Robert Ariail depicts the Republican elephant whistling past the graveyard, and it certainly seems the GOP is coming apart at the seams and could, indeed, cease to exist. The Whigs, however, may not be the best example of that, though they did go from being able to put candidates in the White House — not […]