What Might Have Been: Mickey by Wolverton
Basil Wolverton gained fame through his strange and humorous comic book art from Spacehawk to Powerhouse Pepper to Biblical Armegeddon…
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CSotD: Merry Monday
The forum in Davos has just concluded, but I don’t want to talk politics today. However, here’s a cartoon from…
New Comic Strip Funny Books
Those fabulous floppy funny books that were everywhere in our youth began as showcases for comic strips. Now, except for…
Gannett Comic Consolidations This Weekend – Updated: Cheaper By the Dozens
Original January 20 post: Another batch of Gannett newspapers announcing their adoption of The Gannett 34 comics pages. The Austin…
CSotD: Rated PG-13 – Parental Caution Urged
Someone emailed me to complain about Thursday’s Barney & Clyde (Counterpoint), not particularly saying it should be forbidden so much…
CSotD: Six Impossible Things Before November
Bill Bramhall suggests that there may be some logical holes in Trump’s theory of presidential immunity. This cartoon demonstrates how…
Judge Parker, Judge Crater, whoever
And now, from the land where cigarettes never get any shorter, here are the missing Vintage Judge Parkers from Comics…
Comic Strips and Comic Strip Trivia
The week started, more or less since Monday was a holiday, with a Tuesday adjacent comics synchronicity. Pearls Before Swine…
Cartoonists in the News – A Roundup
Donnie Pitchford, Ralph Steadman, Paul Ackley, Jerry Craft, Clay Jones, Angelo Lopez, Liana Finck, Jim Toomey, Jack Mallette, and the…
CSotD: ‘Splaining
I’m starting the day with Nick Anderson‘s cartoon following the release of the Justice Department’s 600-page report on the May,…
The New Comics Kingdom Coming Soon
First – a little catching up from Rob Tornoe at Editor & Publisher last Fall: Over at King Features Syndicate,…
Tony DePaul on The Phantom Future’s Past
Tony DePaul on his, more-or-less monthly these days, blog chimed in on the just ended Wrack and Ruin: On Phantom…
CSotD: Fear and Loathing and Cream and Sugar
I’m not exactly on the brink of despair, but Too Much Coffee Man (AMS) is close enough, because I’m beyond…
The National Cartoonists Society Opens the Reuben Divisional Awards Call for Entries
The National Cartoonists Society has opened its Call For Entries for the annual Reuben Divisional Awards. Calling all cartoonists! The National…
Wayback Whensday – January Adventures
95 years ago today, on January 17, 1929, E. C. Segar introduced a new character to the comics pages. Popeye…