90 Years Ago – Meet Snuffy and Lowizie
In today’s Barney Google and Snuffy Smith John Rose celebrates the 90th anniversary of Snuffy Smith. Snuffy and “Lowizie” Smith…
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40 Years of The Santa Cruz Comic News
September 12, 1984: The first issue of The Santa Cruz Comic News is published. In a rare moment of clarity,…
Guard Dog Book and Mutts’ 30th Year
Yesterday saw the release of Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story and tomorrow will be the 30th anniversary of…
Retiring at 50? Not Tank McNamara
Fifty years ago today former football player Tank McNamara made his debut as a TV news sportscaster. Seven days later,…
Australian Cartoonists Association is 100
The world’s oldest cartooning organization, the Australian Cartoonists Association, celebrates 100 years of existence today. (Well, yesterday because, you know,…
Wayback Whensday – I Was Just A Child Then
Among the newly added journals at newspapers.com is a 10 month run from May 1880 to February 1881 of The…
Rose Is Rose is Forty
Though in my mind Rose Gumbo is around thirty years of age, she turns forty today. At least her comic…
100 Years Ago: Wash Tubbs Debuts
One hundred years ago one of the greatest adventure comic strips by one of the greatest cartoonists debuted – Washington…
A Silver Anniversary for Grand Avenue
April 5, 1999 saw Grand Avenue by cartoonist Steve Breen appear in newspapers around the country. Mike Thompson began helping…
Breaking Cat News at 10 Years (- 2 days)
Georgia Dunn uses her Sunday page to celebrate ten years of Breaking Cat News today. Let’s compare – here’s the…
Drabble at 45; Kevin Fagan at…a Bit More
Cartoonist Kevin Fagan grew up idolizing Charles M. Schulz and “Peanuts.” Now that his own comic strip, “Drabble,” is turning…
A Senior Strippers Two-Fer
Today we welcome two cartoonists to our Senior Strippers Club, both Ashleigh Brilliant and Jose Delbo turn 90. Ashleigh Brilliant,…
Candorville – Established October 19, 2003
Lemont Brown was created by Darrin Bell in 1993 as a comic strip in UC Berkeley’s Daily Californian. Ten years…
A Dog’s Age – Fred Basset is 60
Fred Basset by Alex Graham debuted in The Daily Mail on July 9, 1963.* From that Daily Mail newspaper celebrating…
Sidney Harris = Senior Stripper
A belated Happy Birthday to cartoonist Sidney Harris who turned 90 years old last Monday. Having been born on May…