One Hundred Thirty Years & a Sunday Ago the First Sunday Color Comic Supplement
MIssed it last Sunday so here, a week late, is the historic anniversary of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World printing…
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Wayback Whensday
Blondie Boopadoop, Popeye, Longest-Running Comic Strips, Dennis the Menace, Harold Wilson. Blondie Bumstead, née Boopadoop? Before she married Dagwood Bumstead,…
Seventy-Five Years of Rex Morgan, M.D. – but the Rex of ’48 is not the Rex of ’23
Rex Morgan, M.D. by Nick Dallis (as Dal Curtis) and Marvin Bradley & Frank Edgington debuted May 10, 1948. Below…
Cartoonist News #216 (May, ’23)
featuring Ted Richards, Nate Neal, Duane Abel, Jenny Campbell, Tony Husband, and Ben Oda. The Comics Journal has a Ted…
Treasures of Comic Art – CBS Sunday Morning on the Bill Blackbeard Collection
One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. And for the late Bill Blackbeard, the treasure that he’d stored from floor…
Maurice Horn – RIP
Comics historian Maurice Horn has passed away. A death notice for famed comics historian Maurice Horn has been discovered. Maurice…
Rarity: The First Dirty Duck as Daily Strip
In the last year of Dan O’Neill’s Odd Bodkins for Chronicle Features O’Neill had met Bobby London and others who…
CSotD: While waiting for CBS and Billy Ireland
I was poking around in 1973, looking to see what Easter cartoons might have run a half century ago, but…
CBS Sunday Morning Billy Ireland Segment About Bill Blackbeard Exhibit Pre-Empted
From The Columbus Dispatch of April 7: An exhibit currently on display at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library…
Wayback Wednesday
James Swinnerton, Bill Watterson, Henry Jackson Lewis, Leonard Starr, Walt Disney and Company “Jimmy Swinnerton came to the desert to…
First and Last: Smilin’ Jack
It wasn’t the first aviation comic strip – Tailspin Tommy (1928), Skyroads (1929, which had Zack Mosley art assist), Scorchy…
The March of Time (Wayback Wednesday)
Ten years ago erstwhile Flash Gordon cartoonist Jim Keefe begins drawing Sally Forth. Okay so we’re a couple weeks late…
Back in My Day (Some Comics History)
A Look at the Future from the 200 Years Ago What did the future look like in 1820s Britain? Poking…
From 1922: Origins of The Sunday Funnies
The colored comic supplement is regarded by foreigners visiting this country for purposes of study as one of our natural…
Comic History for Wayback Wednesday
Some cartoonist and comic strip histories from during and before our lifetime. Jeffrey Lindenblatt returns to Stripper’s Guide with the…