A VIP tour of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, a look at The Nancy Show, and a report on NancyFest 2024. Jason Chatfield, The Former Guy at the National Cartoonists Society (thus inclusion as part of the NCS VIP tour), presents a travelogue of his recent trip(s) to Columbus Ohio. NancyFest 2024 was […]
Original May 25 post: From a Witney Seibold article at SlashFilm about 1991’s The Addams Family film: On Christmas 1946, the New Yorker published a notorious Addams strip wherein his Family’s home was visited by carolers. High above their heads, standing on the home’s central tower, the Addams Family is slowly tipping a cauldron, presumably […]
John Darkow leads us off with both a reminder of what Memorial Day is about, and how it differs from Veteran’s Day. There were, understandably, a lot of days of recollection in the wake of the Civil War in which 750,000 died, and several versions of how those days were gathered into one national holiday, […]