Making a List
Celebrating Christmas Comic Strip Style Brian Cronin at CBR has quite a list on his Comic Strip Advent Calendar showing…
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The Adorable Snowman (A Slobbovian Tale)
In December of 1959 Li’l Abner gathered his family to read a Christmas tale. Cartoonist Al Capp used his Li’l…
Christmas Week Funnies Without Christmas
Not every comic is about Christmas this week, though Macanudo gifted us with an earworm. © Liniers And that’s all…
Refreshing the Reports (Updates)
Bessie Mae Kelley, Kieran Castaño, Robert Ripley, Harry Bliss, Hergé Alex Jay took note of the Bessie Mae Kelley stories…
Syracuse JumpStarted Robb Armstrong’s Career
Philadelphia native and cartoonist Robb Armstrong has been making waves and history his entire career. He created his comic strip…
Richard Kemplin – RIP
Editorial cartoonist Richard Kemplin has passed away. Richard Manley (Dick) Kemplin December 11, 1930 – November 25, 2022 From…
A Winter Wander Land – Miscellaneous Items
Washington, D.C. – A Search for the Source The Library of Congress found the cartoonist who created it (Paul Gregg)…
Ach, 125 Years of Those Katzenjammer Kids – Updated, Now a First and Last(?) Entry
The original December 12, 2022 item: The Katzenjammer Kids first appeared December 12, 1897. Above: the first issue of The…
The Very Model of a Modern American Santa
Since the name of Thomas Nast came up the other day, let’s make note that it was 160 Christmases ago…
Mike Peters’ Strip & Editoons Go Andrews McMeel
Cartoonist Mike Peters is taking his Mother Goose & Grimm comic strip and his editorial cartoons from King Features Syndicate…
On Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men
Hogan’s Alley and Tom Heintjes remind us that it was on this day, in a 1959 Peanuts Sunday comic strip,…
The Bill Mauldin Award? AAEC Letter to OPC
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists President Kevin Necessary has issued an open letter to the Overseas Press Club of…
And In The End – Tom Batiuk on Funky Winkerbean
What started as the humorous misadventures of the teens from Westview High School eventually morphed into a serialized drama tackling…
2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize Open for Submissions
Each year the Cartoonist Studio Prize will be awarded to work that exemplifies excellence in cartooning. The creators of two…
OT: NY Times Crossword on First Day of Hanukkah
The New York Times created a social media storm when their Sunday crossword puzzle layout for December 18, 2022 (the…