Maurice Horn – RIP
Comics historian Maurice Horn has passed away. A death notice for famed comics historian Maurice Horn has been discovered. Maurice…
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Rarity: The First Dirty Duck as Daily Strip
In the last year of Dan O’Neill’s Odd Bodkins for Chronicle Features O’Neill had met Bobby London and others who…
Foreign Funnies Files From … Australia
The Australian Cartoonists Association has uploaded a dozen or so recent “issuus” of their Inkspot magazine quintupling the Inkspots and…
Controversial Comic Strip Moments – A List Updated with Some Fact-Checking
Like Leslie Stahl after her MTG interview, I have been chastised for linking this article out to comics fans without…
Al Jaffee – RIP
Beloved cartoonist Al Jaffee has passed away. From The Washington Post: Al Jaffee, the ingenious Mad magazine illustrator who was…
2022 Book Scan Graphic Books Report
Brian Hibbs at Comics Beat does a deep dive into the 2022 NPD Book Scan Report. Ludicrously, this is the…
Not Passing Over Easter Weekend Roundup
Joe Cool Type Cool From NBC News: The American Red Cross partnered with the popular Peanuts cartoon brand to create…
CBS Sunday Morning Billy Ireland Segment About Bill Blackbeard Exhibit Pre-Empted
From The Columbus Dispatch of April 7: An exhibit currently on display at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library…
2023 Eisner Hall of Fame Inductees and Nominees
San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have selected 15 individuals to automatically be inducted…
Jim Strahle – RIP
Cartoonist Jim Strahle has passed away. From the obituary: Jim was a 1966 graduate of Parkview High School in Springfield,…
From Court Sketch to New Yorker Cover
Jane Rosenberg‘s courtroom sketch of former president Donald Trump scowling at his recent Manhattan arraignment has not only gone viral,…
Willy Black by Guillermo Saldaña is Added to the Comics Kingdom Schedule
Comics Kingdom has again expanded their roster with the addition of Willy Black by Guillermo Saldaña. Very limited information as…
Peter Shelley – RIP
Musician and Robotman creator Peter Shelley has passed away. From the obituary: Peter Shelley, (née Southworth), born in London, England,…
Bruce Petty – RIP
Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty has passed away. From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australian cartoonist, filmmaker and satirist Bruce Petty has…
Wayback Wednesday
James Swinnerton, Bill Watterson, Henry Jackson Lewis, Leonard Starr, Walt Disney and Company “Jimmy Swinnerton came to the desert to…