CSotD: Works in Progress
Today is a holiday, though it’s another of those American wage-slave holidays where the banks, the schools and the post…
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Wrack and Ruin and Shaggy Dogs
From TV Tropes: A “Shaggy Dog” Story is a plot with a high level of build-up and complicating action, only…
Gannett Comic Switch – 2 Minute Warning
… will introduce a revamped and updated comics section on Monday, Jan. 15… Beginning Jan. 15, we are excited to…
CSotD: A Variety of Snow Jobs
Our impending political disaster is grim enough that Andertoons (AMS) manages to mine it not so much for an actual…
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Illustrated by F.A. McGinn
The Daily Cartoonist joins the public domain crowd by presenting the adaptation of 1927’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin film. Itself an…
Courtroom Sketch a Hit With Anti-Trumpers
Recent sketches by courtroom artist Christine Cornell showing the latest Donald Trump appearance in the New York fraud case against…
CSotD: Bouquets and Brickbats
Can’t argue with Danae in today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), though mainly because I don’t want her coming after me on…
Brian McConnachie – RIP
Comedy writer Brian McConnachie has passed away. Brian John McConnachie December 23, 1942 – January 5, 2024 The American Bystander…
Reader Outcry Keeps Arlo and Janis in Paper
After announcing upcoming changes to their comics page The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion Ledger heard from fans of Jimmy Johnson‘s comic…
CSotD: What the other half hears
When Michael Ramirez (Creators) begins quoting Michael Dukakis, you know the End Times are near. Ramirez is hard to pin…
Sgt Pat and Radio Patrol MIA strips
Apparently, Comics Kingdom is announcing missing Vintage strips one day at a time instead of providing the missing dates and…
Comic Strip Bric-a-Brac
Public domain Mickey (aka Steamboat Willie) continues to appear in comic strips. Ruben Bolling‘s newest Tom the Dancing Bug character…
A Day Late Edition of Wayback Whensday (That Was Then Thursday?)
Gaar Williams: The Indiana Ink-Slinger; The Cartoonist Who Helped Usher in Jim Crow; Kunzle and the Comic Strip; Setting the…
CSotD: Comics Relief
A door panel blew out on a Boeing jet the other day. Perhaps you heard. Matt Pritchett came up with…
Arizona Editoonist Steve Benson Retires
After almost 45 year years of editorial cartooning Steve Benson is retiring. Jim Small, Editor In Chief of The Arizona…