Pogo Gone – It Weren’t Nohow Permanent
Ill health took a toll on Walt Kelly and Pogo. By the early 1970s friends and family were pitching in…
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Brooke McEldowney Been Paying Mortgage at 9 Chickweed Lane for 30 Years
Brooke McEldowney celebrated 30 years of 9 Chickweed Lane comic strips in his usual artistic way (above). 9 Chickweed Lane…
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. – RIP
Comics and illustration historian and publisher Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has passed away. “Jim was one of those rare figures in…
Wayback Whensday: Special Sunday Edition
Scott Adams, Mario DeMarco, Jack Lindstrom, Jim Keefe, George Herriman, and the Warner Bros. cartoon studio of Chuck Jones, Michael…
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…
Wayback Whensday – You Wear It Well
Dale Messick and Brenda Starr, J.C. Leyendecker and the Arrow Collar, Rudolphe Töpffer and the first comic book. [F]or a…
Firsts and Lasts: The Daily Flash Gordon
Thirty years ago, mid-1993, a Flash Gordon story comes to an end. And with the end of the story comes…
Manuel M. Moreno in Wayback Whensday
Way back one hundred years ago The Los Angeles Times produced a Sunday supplement for and by younger readers it…
Mutt and Jeff, the >Almost< First Daily Comic Strip, Ended Forty Years Ago Today
Mutt and Jeff, recognized as the first regularly published daily comic strip >see Allan Hotz’s comment below<, ended after 75…
Moon Mullins – Friends in Low Places
After a decade as a struggling cartoonist, minus a couple years as a World War I doughboy, Frank Willard found…
Wayback Whensday Wonders
Jimmy Dodge-a-Job and the Little Folks of Tumbledown Town Allan Holtz presents us with most wonderful samples of cartooning from…
The Missing Popeye Files – Filling the Gap
King Features has put up a different sort of trouble slide, which isn’t their usual announcement for missing files and,…
Richard D. Olson – RIP
Comics historian and R. F. Outcault/Yellow Kid authority Richard D. Olson has passed away. The report of Richard’s passing was…
The Missing Popeye Files, Day Three
KFS continues to run the Dec 31, 1939, episode of Vintage Thimble Theater. Here are the missing episodes to date:
Rarity: Casey’s Capers by Vincent Faletti
Vincent D. Faletti began cartooning while serving in the Armed Forces during World War 2. Returning home to Michigan he…