Hey Kids! Comics! New Year, New Comics
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2024 release.Images and links from a variety of publishers…
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Wrack and Ruin and Shaggy Dogs
From TV Tropes: A “Shaggy Dog” Story is a plot with a high level of build-up and complicating action, only…
Gannett Comic Switch – 2 Minute Warning
… will introduce a revamped and updated comics section on Monday, Jan. 15… Beginning Jan. 15, we are excited to…
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Illustrated by F.A. McGinn
The Daily Cartoonist joins the public domain crowd by presenting the adaptation of 1927’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin film. Itself an…
Courtroom Sketch a Hit With Anti-Trumpers
Recent sketches by courtroom artist Christine Cornell showing the latest Donald Trump appearance in the New York fraud case against…
Brian McConnachie – RIP
Comedy writer Brian McConnachie has passed away. Brian John McConnachie December 23, 1942 – January 5, 2024 The American Bystander…
Reader Outcry Keeps Arlo and Janis in Paper
After announcing upcoming changes to their comics page The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion Ledger heard from fans of Jimmy Johnson‘s comic…
Comic Strip Bric-a-Brac
Public domain Mickey (aka Steamboat Willie) continues to appear in comic strips. Ruben Bolling‘s newest Tom the Dancing Bug character…
A Day Late Edition of Wayback Whensday (That Was Then Thursday?)
Gaar Williams: The Indiana Ink-Slinger; The Cartoonist Who Helped Usher in Jim Crow; Kunzle and the Comic Strip; Setting the…
Arizona Editoonist Steve Benson Retires
After almost 45 year years of editorial cartooning Steve Benson is retiring. Jim Small, Editor In Chief of The Arizona…
David Kunzle – RIP
The peerless “pre-comic strip” comic strip historian David Kunzle has passed away. David Mark Kunzle April 17, 1936 – January…
Anchorage Daily News Cuts Comics Roster
In what is turning into an annual event The Anchorage Daily News (ADN) has changed the make up of the…
Buffalo News Apologizes for Zyglis Cartoon
After catching some grief over an Adam Zyglis cartoon two week’s ago and calling for letters of comment that were…
Wallace the Brave Loses Local Newspapers
As part of the Gannett/USA TODAY Network The Providence Journal is implementing the corporate imperative to switch their comics page(s)…
Flash Gordon and Dale Arden Age Well
That “a while back” was 90 years ago today. On January 7, 1934 King Features Syndicate introduced two new comics…