The Secret Origin of “Ace Backwords”
From Wikipedia: Peter Labriola (born September 12, 1956), better known by the pen name Ace Backwords is an American author…
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2021 Eisner Award Winners
The winners of the 2021 Eisner Awards were announced Friday night at the San Diego Comic-Con. A mostly comic book…
Lyonel Feininger – 150ster Geburtsfeier
German-American artist Lyonel Feininger was born on July 17, 1871 – 150 years ago today. He became the most recognized…
Hey Kids! Comics! History in July
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2021 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
Sex, Drugs, and Rex Morgan
John Wells recent posting of an intriguing 1954 Judge Parker Sunday … … got me thinking of a Rex Morgan,…
A Desert Island Cartoon Before It Became Cliché
© Bill Griffith 2020 Of the 126 or so cliché cartoon gags probably none is as well known as the…
Reinhold Reitberger – RIP
Cartoonist and comics historian Reinhold Reitberger has passed away. Reinhold C. Reitberger December 25, 1946 – June 25, 2021 A…
Bernstein, Blum, Lockman, Newman Get The Finger
The San Diego Comic-Con has announced the comics writers who will be awarded The Bill Finger Award this year….
Post-Dispatch Comic Artists Profiles 1951/52
Beginning in the Fall of 1951 until the Spring of 1952 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a series of profiles…
Chicago Celebrates Its Classic Comics Culture
Who would have guessed that Chicago was the birthplace of comics? The exhibition focuses on the origins of the comics…
Cartoon Chronicles – Huddled Masses
Little Orphan Annie and the Melting Pot Harold Gray has been derided as a conservative, and that he was,…
Hey Kids! Comics! – Papa’s Got a Brand New Book
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2021 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
2021 Eisner Award Nominees – Comic Strip Division
The annual Eisner Awards, in association with the San Diego Comic-Con, have announced the nominees in their various groupings. While…
Charles Schulz Documentary June 25
Apple TV+ today revealed the trailer and premiere date for its upcoming documentary special, “Who Are You, Charlie Brown?,” set…
First and Last – Mutt and Jeff, Part 1: Chronicles
In 1905 twenty-year-old Harry Conway (Bud) Fisher left Chicago for San Francisco where he got a job working for de…