Seeing May Out with Miss Cellany
Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s Paper Trends returns with a survey of the comics page of the year 2000. The Rookies, Biggest Winners…
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CSotD: Quick Resolution, Quick Responses
To repeat an oft-told story in political cartooning, Bill Mauldin was at a luncheon when news of JFK’s assassination came….
Karen Moy and 20 Years Worth of Mary
After more than 20 years on the job, Karen Moy ’87 still considers it “a blessing and an honor” to…
A Brief History of Animating Comic Strips
The Garfield Movie, currently running on movie theaters (Rotten Tomatoes scoring much better by audiences than critics) prompted Cartoon Brew…
CSotD: The Waiting Game
Here sits the New York trial of Donald Trump for falsifying his campaign expenditures: The testimony is over, the jury…
Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story
Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts Comics site is promoting The Guard Dog Story for preorder. This book features the seven-week-long tale of…
Wayback Whensday – Centuries of Comics
Louis M. Glackens, Benjamin Franklin, Rube Goldberg, Harvey Kurtzman, Homer Davenport. [Louis M.] Glackens was born in 1866 in Philadelphia…
CSotD: Thanks For Your Servileness
I’m more than a little burned out on upside-downism in cartooning about Justice Alito’s political posturing, though the immediacy with…
Julie Larson – RIP
Cartoonist and puzzle maker Julie Larson had passed away two years ago. Julie Christine (Harris) Larson September 20, 1959 –…
CSotD: Things That Make You Say “Hmmm”
Sometimes you need a dose of silliness, and Jimmy Craig is just the one to deliver. This gag requires a…
Jason Chatfield Reports from NancyFest
A VIP tour of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, a look at The Nancy Show, and a report…
Solve the Charles Addams Cartoon Mystery – Update: Cartoon Found
Original May 25 post: From a Witney Seibold article at SlashFilm about 1991’s The Addams Family film: On Christmas 1946,…
CSotD: It’s Memorial Day Again and Again
John Darkow leads us off with both a reminder of what Memorial Day is about, and how it differs from…
Olivia Jaimes to Take a Leave from Nancy
Olivia Jaimes appeared on video as a part of the recent Nancy Fest: The New Nancy Olivia Jaimes is the…
Sunday Stripping
Let’s start with three huzzahs to Comics Kingdom for including the title panels with the Sunday comics! We sincerely hope…