Charles Addams: Not Creepy, Not Kooky
[H. Kevin] Miserocchi knew Addams for just nine years before the cartoonist suffered a fatal heart attack in 1988, but…
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AUCTIONING TONY AUTH’S DRAWING BOARD! Last Call
– – Auction ends Monday October 14, 2019 – – A message from Signe Wilkinson: When he retired from the…
New Yorker Swipe File (Saxon v Hoff)
Attempted Bloggery has a theory about an unpublished Charles Saxon cartoon. Last week Michael Maslin’s Ink Spill published a photograph…
Gahan Wilson September Update
As you probably know Gahan Wilson and his family are battling Alzheimer’s. Gahan ended this Summer in a bad way….
Rube Goldberg: The World of Hilarious Invention!
Patrons of Davenport’s Putnam Museum & Science Center are invited to view fantastically ridiculous machines, and dream up some of…
The Battle of the Century
So what fight was the actual Battle of the Century? Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries? Muhammad Ali and Joe…
Lee Salem – Tributes and Respect (updated)
Lee served as editor and then president of Universal Press Syndicate, now called Andrews McMeel Syndication. In his nearly four…
Stan Lynde & The Great Montana Cattle Drive of ’89
Leading up to the state’s centennial a small group decided Stan Lynde‘s idea of a 60 mile Great Montana Centennial…
Sam Gross: 50 Years as New Yorker Cartoonist
It was the 1960s and Sam Gross began his cartooning career. Like other cartoonists he had a number of goals,…
Gahan Wilson at 89 – and at 13
As Mike Peterson mentioned the other day Gahan Wilson still draws a bit. While the GoFundMe page is no…
Three Rocks, The Ernie Bushmiller Story – A Sneak Peek at Bill Griffith’s Graphic Biography
Bill Giffith has a few obsessions in his life. There is his lifelong preoccupation with observing human beings and commenting…
It’s a Dirty Job But Someone’s Gotta Do It – Memoirs of a National Cartoonists Society President
I was president of the NCS from June, 1999 to May, 2001, and I ran two “Reuben Awards” conventions. The…
National Cartoonists Society Popeye Auction
The National Cartoonists Society is celebrating Popeye‘s 90th year (and Olive Oyl‘s 100th) by auctioning off a number of specialty…
Editor Quits After Unauthorized Dean Yeagle Art
The current issue of the French magazine Blandice has a Dean Yeagle cover, unfortunately, due to a series of…
Sergio Aragonés Rejects the Idea of No More MAD
Longtime MAD contributor Sergio Aragonés just can’t imagine a world without MAD. Aragonés sees MAD as a way of…