Early Peanuts First Editions The definitive guide to identifying early [first edition] Peanuts strip reprint softcovers and hardcovers, published by Rinehart & Co. from 1952 -1960 and by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. from 1960 – 1974 Lowell Wilson has set up a guide to the early Peanuts books from Rinehart/Holt, Rinehart & Winston. […]
It’s been three years since we first reported on McClatchy standardizing the comics pages in all their papers. Since that time there have been changes, so let’s update what is now being run in McClatchy newspapers. These are the exact same comics pages material currently running in The Modesto Bee, The Kansas City Star, and […]
We’re starting our commentary on a uniquely American phenomenon with reactions from a pair of Canadians, and why not? If a segment of our fellow citizens make asses of themselves in public, of course others are going to notice. Frum manages to make the connection with the GOP’s attempt to turn everything into revenge for […]
The Providence Journal gave notice that Will Henry’s Wallace the Brave comic strip returned to the newspaper on Monday January 29, 2024 after a two week absence with a front page above the fold feature story: Fans of “Wallace the Brave” rejoice! The syndicated comic strip about the life of a young boy in the […]
Kal Kallaugher offers an antidote of sorts to all the polling and panic, pointing out that party members barely make up half of voters. (Gallup says 27% Democrat, 25% Republican, 45% independent, presumably with some rounding.) He emphasizes his point not just by having the fellow bang on the ceiling, but by referring to “the […]
If the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, used by psychiatrists, were to officially recognize Trump Derangement Syndrome as the serious mental illness that it is, there would be thousands—perhaps tens of thousands—of leftists across the country diagnosed as suffering from the world’s only political psychosis. Conservative political opinion writer Peter Parisi at The […]
Partnering with the old man. Let’s start with not a comic strip. Kidtown, a puzzle and activity feature written and drawn by cartoonist Steve McGarry since 2001, remains written by Steve but, as of January 28, 2024 (above) is drawn by son Luke McGarry. Steve continues to draw the weekly Biographic. TAYO Fatunla‘s award-winning OUR […]
Mort Gerberg offers this cheerful, well-timed reminder. I’ve got to admit that we’ve done all right so far. We’re far enough north not to be as shocked and unprepared as those who have had a worse winter than usual and far enough inland to miss the nor’easters that have plastered the New England coast. Fact […]
Things are getting pretty noir. If you’ve never followed Vintage Judge Parker (KFS), this is an excellent time to jump in.
January 29 will begin the fifth week of One Big Happy in rerun mode. Has Rick Detorie retired the comic strip? A year ago Rick Detorie ended the One Big Happy Sunday page with the last Sunday of 2022. Now he seems to have ended the daily version of the comic strip with the December […]
Editorial cartoonist Alex Burns Cook has passed away. Alexander Burns (Alex) Cook February 1, 1926 – January 25, 2024 Editorial cartoonist, sports cartoonist, caricaturist From the obituary: Alex spent most of his youth in Saint Joseph, Michigan where the proximity of tugboats and steamers was the perfect playground for an adventurous boy. While in high […]
Sandra Bell-Lundy is a little coy about how successful Kim is as a writer, which makes this Between Friends (KFS) all the more fun. She’s successful enough to be able to stay home and write, and even to have deadlines, but she’s not working on the third novel in a multi-book contract. Rather, this novel […]
QUESTION: What happened to Leroy and Loretta in the Sunday comics? They were my favorites and I miss them. Thank you. A reader of The Longview News-Journal ask whatever happened to The Lockhorns and the answer is that when the panel left King Features the panel left The News-Journal (LNJ): ANSWER: We received several inquiries […]
Wick Communications, a media group with 24 newspapers mostly west of The Mississippi, will be consolidating their comics pages beginning in February 2024. The group has signed a deal with Andrews McMeel Syndicate. From The Fergus Falls Daily Journal: Beginning on Wednesday, Feb. 14, we will be introducing a new comics page that will still […]
In case you hadn’t noticed, Mike Smith (KFS) points out that the border has become a major campaign issue for the GOP, which is pushing the narrative of an “open border” despite the uncertain meaning of a record level of apprehensions. There’s little way to tell if the percentage of border-crossers being caught has gone […]