This week’s Wayback Whensday was put in motion by a Bob Harris comment to TDC earlier this week. The Wallace the Brave strip spurs my obligatory reminder that the Family Circus didn’t invent the footprints gag. Clare Dwiggins (“Dwig”) was using it at least as early as 1919. Tom Heintjes informs us that Bil Keane […]
Mike Manley, Tony DePaul and The Phantom crew, David Fitzsimmons, Brian Gable, and Cartoonist Rights Network. A Mike Manley health update. Mike Manley explains that he will need more intrusive surgeries: This whole roundabout of colliding health issues has revealed that my heart is an actually pretty bad shape even though I have never suffered […]
I’m with Lizzie in Reply All (WPWG), with some mixed feelings about the holiday season but a large dose of “When is this over?” For the self-employed and empty-nested, the holidays are mostly days when the banks and the post office are closed, but, in addition, we’re entering a Dead Zone where a lot of […]