Toons & Tunes on Wayback Wednesday
From 100 years ago is an article on the then-current comics scene from the February 1923 Vanity Fair. THE largest…
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Indecent! Pre-Hays Code Animated Cartoons
With the explosion of talkies in the late 1920s, movie studios looked to talent from the New York stage to…
Refreshing the Reports (Updates)
Bessie Mae Kelley, Kieran Castaño, Robert Ripley, Harry Bliss, Hergé Alex Jay took note of the Bessie Mae Kelley stories…
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,…
HerStory: Bessie Mae Kelley – Comic Chronicles
One hundred years ago there was one woman drawing and directing animated films. From animation historian Jerry Beck: In the…
Wildly Random Weekend Roundup
Award Winning Cartoonists Kevin Necessary (1st Place) and Rich Williams (2nd Place) win 2022 cartooning awards…
Clearing the Queue – Tales From Hither and Thither
The Evolving Art of Ruffling Feathers © Steve Nease Most newspapers had a full-time cartoonist on staff. Now, the juice…
A Gathering of Gallimaufry
A Hard-Copy of the Morning Newspaper is Vital Art Marmorstein needs four things in the morning: … a warm shower,…
Screening Cartoonists
Tom Toles is the most decorated journalist in the history of Buffalo news media. He cut his teeth as an…
Slylock Fox Gets Animated and Retitled
King Features Syndicate has launched development on a new animated feature inspired by the interactive children’s comic strip, Slylock Fox…
CSotD: Diversity and Appropriation
(Benjamin Slyngstad) (Pat Bagley) Here are two closely related commentaries on the negative response to diversity and inclusion in…
Berke Breathed Bloom County & Snake Animation
Another step toward realization for the Bloom County animation series. Tim Long (The Simpsons) has signed on to co-write and…
The Wit & Wisdom & Wiggly Wiles of R O Blechman
Today, at 92 the artist/writer is still spry, productive and creative. Currently we are blessed with a new book (actually,…
Steamboat Willie Goes PD, The Mouse Not So Much
In 16 months Mickey Mouse‘s official debut* animated cartoon, Steamboat Willie, will go public domain, but The Mouse will remain…
The Comics Journal Obituary for Paul Coker, Jr.
The Comics Journal released its obituary of Paul Coker, Jr. today. Comics historian and Cartoon Art Museum curator Andrew Farago…