The Bill of Rights Cartooned
To celebrate the 230th anniversary of The Bill of Rights we travel back thirty years when cartoonists and syndicates collaborated…
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100 Years of Ginger Meggs
Ginger Meggs has joined an elite club – one that only a handful of comic strips have attained* – Ginger…
Jason on Ginger at 100
The Ginger Meggs comic strip will mark its one hundredth anniversary this week. It was Aussie Jimmy Bancks who introduced…
Frankie and Johnny Were Lovers…Rooty Toot Toot
The debut of the short subject Rooty Toot Toot seventy years ago this month is as much a groundbreaking moment…
25 Years of Eavesdropping on San Diegans
The local comic strip Overheard in San Diego by Jay Allen Sanford is celebrating 25 years of appearing in the…
A Bill Mauldin Centennial
“I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.” – – – – Bill Mauldin…
Happy Birthday to Senior Stripper Larry Lieber
Happy 90th Birthday to comic book and comic strip cartoonist Larry Lieber! It was the latter half of the 1960s…
NCS Auction for The Benefit of St. Jude’s Children
Beginning on October 27th and running through November 3rd of this year, the National Cartoonists Society and the NCS Foundation…
Lyonel Feininger – 150ster Geburtsfeier
German-American artist Lyonel Feininger was born on July 17, 1871 – 150 years ago today. He became the most recognized…
Honolulu Advertiser’s 85th Anniversary (1941)
For reasons remaining unknown The Honolulu Advertiser decided to go all out for their 85th anniversary on July 2, 1941….
Ziggy’s Tom Wilson. Jr. (Tom II) Interviewed
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Ziggy‘s first dated panel GoComics interviews Tom Wilson, Jr., the son and…
Ziggy is Golden
Fifty years ago on Sunday June 27, 1971 newspaper readers were introduced to Ziggy in a promotional teaser for the…
Australia Mints Centennial Ginger Meggs Coins
A century ago, Sydney artist Jimmy Bancks created an iconic Aussie character, a red-headed boy called Ginger Meggs. Part battler,…
20 Years Ago Today: John Rose Signs Snuffy Smith
Last month John Rose celebrated being hired by King Features Syndicate to succeed Fred Lasswell as the cartoonist for the…
How Many Days into This Did Pat Bagley Think…
The first edition of what is now called The Tribune hit the streets on April 15, 1871. It was called…