Hey Kids! Comics! Gifts for You and Yours
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2024 release (or so).Images and links from a variety…
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In Other Comic News
Mark Parisi and Kim Tomsic, Rockwell Kent, Sarah Anderson, Barbara Shermund, Dick Brooks, Stevan Dohanas, and Jef Mallett and the…
More Comic Strips You Have Never Read
Well, naturally you’ve read Barney Google and Snuffy Smith by John Rose, but odds are against you having read Billy…
Nov 7, 1874: Th. Nast Draws an Elephant
From thomasnast.com, where the cartoon is explained: As mentioned in the above quote, while the first Thomas Nast Republican elephant…
Tim Jackson – RIP
Cartoonist and comics historian Tim Jackson has passed away. Timothy Lee (Tim) Jackson January 16, 1958 – November 3, 2024…
CSotD: Meanwhile, in other news …
While we wait for Tuesday, how about a break to look at some other things happening in the world? Glenn…
Dia de la Redondeo
With Steve Breen, Wayno, Glenn Fleishman, Ruben Bolling, Paul Robinson, and Jimmy Johnson. By Appointment Only – A migrant family…
The Last Daily Doonesbury White House Wallpaper Comic Strip from 1988
So when Garry Trudeau mentioned that “the last time a Doonesbury strip featured four near-identical drawings of the White House…
Paper’s Prohibition of Political Pogo
It is late October in The Year of Our Lord 1968, a Presidential Election year. The election is two weeks…
Wayback Whensday – Terry and Mary
Ninety years ago yesterday one of the greatest 1930s adventure strips debuted in the New York Daily News It would…
CSotD: One More Week To Go Mad
What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., closes Sunday, the 27th, giving…
Wayback Whensday – Way, Way Back
The Creation of the Comic Strip as an Audiovisual Stage in the New York Journal 1896-1900 Eike Exner, for Image…
Hey Kids! Comics! Fun-Adventure-History
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2024 release (or so).Images and links from a variety…
Wayback Whensday
With Brenda Starr, Girl Reporter; 19th Century Haitian caricatures; PS: The Preventive Maintenance Monthy magazine; and The U.S. Army Air…
Thick as Thaves – A Centennial Celebration
Frank and Ernest creator Robert Lee (Bob) Thaves was born on Oct. 5, 1924, one hundred years ago today. As…