Tom Engelhardt – RIP
Long time St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial cartoonist Tom Engelhardt has passed away. Thomas Alexander (Tom) Engelhardt December 29, 1930 –…
July 2024
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Wayback Whensday Wonders
Origins of the comic strip gutter?; MIckey Mouse’s Friends; More about Han Ola og han Per; Future Funnies; and pre-Tiger…
Whatnot Wednesday Weirdness
Newspapers From this past weekend’s Albany Times-Union: On April 4, 1924, the Times Union told its readers it had officially…
CSotD: Humpday Humor
Loose Parts (AMS) hits at a good moment. I tried a hole-in-the-wall pizza place yesterday, and when I paid, got…
Gary and Bob, Hägar’s Ghost Cartoonists – but mostly Gary
Bob Weber, Jr., he of Slylock Fox fame, and Gary Hallgren, he of Air Pirates Funnies fame, have been friends…
Bill Hinds is NCS Gold T-Square Recipient
Tank McNamara cartoonist Bill Hinds to be honored. From the National Cartoonists Society: Bill Hinds will be presented with the…
2024 EPPY™ Awards – Call For Entries
Editor & Publisher will open the window to submit entries to their annual EPPY™ Awards on August 1, 2024. The…
CSotD: Satire, Parody and Homage
Steve Brodner offers an affectionate portrait and tribute to his friend and mentor, Lewis Lapham, a legendary editor at Harper’s…
E.S. Glenn: New Yorker to Comics Kingdom
E. S. (Everett Samuel) Glenn is a comic creator and a New Yorker cartoonist, and soon he will be a…
Roz Chast To Get Best of Brooklyn Award
From the AP news story: Cartoonist Roz Chast will receive the [Brooklyn Book Festival’s] annual BoBi (Best of Brooklyn) award,…
Corporate (Not Mea) Culpa Comics
The recent CrowdStrike debacle gives lessons for all of us in how to (and how not to) communicate in a…
CSotD: Wouldn’t you prefer a good game of TEGWAR?
Randall Munroe imagines himself in the Olympics in today’s xkcd, and I notice that the funniest places he’d expect to…
Miss Cellany Talkin’ ‘Bout This an’ That
Here’s an oddity: A Garfield Sunday where everyone is happy about everything. Just a coincidence that it is Jon Arbuckle’s…
CSotD: Satire, lies and misstatements
Lalo Alcaraz Tommy Siegel Clay Jones And so on and so forth. The Internet is full of jokes about JD…
2024 Eisner Awards – Selected Winners
Fridays at the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) is Eisner Award night, this year that was last night July 26,…