Weekend Roundup – Cartoonists and Comics
© DC Comics The Jewish co-creators of the comic book superhero Superman will be posthumously inducted into the Jewish American…
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Comic Chronicles – The Way They Were (updated)
Not long after I posted this issue The AFRO posted an item about Hambone’s Meditations.I’m putting that notice up top…
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…
An Appreciation of Political Cartooning
“The best art is not passive.” Even beyond their value on the planes of humor and inclusivity, it is important…
Comic Art News and Reviews
Joe Dator puts a book together. © Joe Dator What do you wish you had known before making a…
Charlie Addams’ Love Letters to His Valentine
In 1935, Addams –always “Charlie” to his friends—was in love with a hometown girl, 22-year-old Jewell Valentine Bunnell. She was…
8 Pages of Iridescent Polychromous Effulgence
125 years ago Hearst’s New York Journal promoted the first issue of the American Humorist – “8 full pages of…
Comic Chronicles: Will Be That Was
Old stuff. A London illustrator in 1898 looks ahead one hundred years and is not all that far off. ‘Cycle…
Hey Kids! Comics! Pure Treat
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through…
Braddock At The Beacon – Past & Present Paige
Famed University of Tennessee alumna and former UT Daily Beacon contributor Paige Braddock will sit for a virtual Q &…
Book Covers and Looney Trademark Rights
This week, we published a book by the talented Jaime Weinman on the history of the Looney Tunes cartoon franchise,…
Eulogy For a Dying Art?
Is this the end of editorial cartooning? For Chris Lamb of The Chicago Tribune it is not so much a…
Comic Strips Chits
Legendary Gets Hollywood Rights to Heathcliff © Creators Syndicate Move over Garfield, there’s a new cat in town. Or rather,…
Cavalcade of American Comics (Chronicles)
In 1963 syndicates and newspapers joined forces with cartoonist and comics historian Gordon Campbell to produce an exhibit of pages…
The Tales of Tales of The Green Berets/Beret
Robin Moore‘s book about The Green Berets in Vietnam was released in the Spring of 1965 and before…