A Peanuts Gallery
Peanuts Worldwide is getting an early jump on the comic strip’s 75th anniversary: In honor of the 75th anniversary of Charles…
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CSotD: Reveille
Gary Markstein (Creators) has a nice-sounding idea. We’d all like a do-over; we’d all like to speak to the manager….
Seven Days’ 2024 Cartoon Issue
Vermont’s alternative newspaper Seven Days has released its annual Cartoon Issue. This year’s special comic features includes efforts by Mary…
Funny Stuff – The Book
“Novel ideas spring from a cartoonist’s mind because it is not weighed down too heavily by reality.” Rex and Phil,…
CSotD: Picking up the pieces
My usual rule is to not feature a cartoon more than a week after it runs, but I’ve recently wound…
Malcolm Bridgewater’s Working Daze History (Revised and Expanded Edition)
About ten years Working Daze artist Scott Roberts (as Malcolm Bridgewater) gave us an in depth look at the history…
CSotD: Dole, Crocs, Gore, Legos, Biden
Ted Rall was hardly the only person who, in 1995, pointed out that Bob Dole was old. And, compared to…
Cartoonist’s Cartoonists Out and About
Jules Feiffer, Mort Gerberg, J.N. “Ding” Darling, and the 1949 King Features Syndicate “bullpen.” An Appreciation of Jules Feiffer Steven…
Our (Two Week-) Long National Nightmare is Over; or, Quelling the Village Uprising
Hopefully the restless natives are now calming down. Today Greg Evans returned to the drawing chores on Luann after a…
CSotD: Don’t Know Much About History
Today’s Rubes (Creators) brings back memories of being a reporter at a paper in a city on Lake Champlain, which…
P as in Pickles, Prickly, Phoebe, Proverbs; plus Other Sunday Funnies
A few comic strips in GoComics “P” section went proverbial today. Phoebe and Her Unicorn, Pickles, and Prickly City comic…
When Comic Strip Ambitions Fail
Rejection is a bitter pill to swallow, particularly when it’s something that you really want. Imagine applying to your dream…
CSotD: Breakfast with the White Queen
The observation in this Jeff Stahler cartoon would be obvious any other time, but it’s important at the moment. Evaluating…
Earl by M. C. Tin Star 1992(?) – 2024(?)
Earl (originally Ranchin’ with Earl) by M. C. Tin Star seems to have ended its run earlier this year. Wally…
CSotD: The Lion Always Gets His Share
Sunday’s Rubes (Creators) brought to mind an African folktale whose more precise origin I can’t remember, of the lion, the…