The Monster and Mike Doonesbury, Milholland and The Mouse, Hugs and Kisses from Peanuts, Bret Blevins and Judge Alan Parker, The Comics Journal’s 2023 Best Name Checks a few Comic Strips, Cleveland Scene’s Comics Issue, and Love to Ramona Fradon on her Retiring at age 97. It’s that time of year when we get bonus […]
Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s Paper Trends: The 300 for 1998 Scroll down for more of Jeffrey’s 1998 survey entries at the Stripper’s Guide. ********** BEFORE THE CARTOON 2: Comic cuts and conversational captions The Penny Satirist, which called itself “a weekly satirical newspaper” featured the first sustained use of front-page political cartoons in London. The first number […]
Al Goodwyn (Creators) is a very nice guy, and this is a well-intended New Year’s cartoon. I’m leading with it today because I’ll also feature some less honest commentary, but I believe this to be completely sincere and honest and naive and wrong. Goodwyn is no cynic, but maybe you have to be one to […]