CSotD: Looking back 100 years (personal privilege)
I’m rising to a point of personal privilege today, because my father was born March 28, 1921, in Ironwood, Michigan,…
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Weekend Whatnots
Ginger Meggs Punchline Contest Above is the opening panel to the page Jimmy Bancks was working on when he died…
Th. Nast Should Follow Dr. Seuss to the Dustbin
[T]he banishment of Dr. Seuss raises the question as to why another, and far more deliberate, the proponent of racist…
Incitement to Riot 1898 – Cartoonist Chronicles
Racist Cartoons Help Incite an 1898 North Carolina Massacre>> Warning: historically racist caricature and content << When a mob bent…
CARTOONIST PROfiles Archives
A treasure trove for cartooning fans is now available! The Internet Archive has made available the run of Jud Hurd’s…
Profiling – Cartoonist Chronicles210211
Antonio vs. Fidel and Spy vs. Spy But he was always careful that neither spy ever defeated the other because…
Editor and Publisher Archives 1901 – 2015
Editor & Publisher’s roots began in 1884 when The Journalist was first published to serve the U.S. newspaper industry. The…
Black (Comics) History Month
There is a growing and welcome sub-genre of comics history that deals with African American cartoonists and the work they…
Phantom Finals (this ain’t Jeopardy now)
So you’re feeling good about acing that Jeopardy category, eh?Let’s go deeper into the woods and see what you know…
Capp The Creator vs. The Squeezeblood Syndicate
It is July 1947: The Wheels of Justice move slowly. A Cartoonist’s Frustration rises quickly. October 19, 1947: October 26,…
Old Friends – Cartoonist Chronicles210128
“The art editor asked if I would try to develop an animal character that would be distinctively Canadian,” illustrator James…
Perspectives – Cartoonist Chronicles210121
© EC Comics Hundreds of years before The Impossible Trident there was … William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective, engraved…
Hey Kids! Comics! – Winter Reading
© Tom Gauld Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2021 release. Images and links (mostly)…
Auld Lang Syne: Cartoonist Chronicles-201231
Some articles and essays dealing with comic history from this past week. A sad fact of life is that Rob…
The Comics Research Bibliography 2020 Edition, Your Resource Source, Now Available
Over 1200 pages long with more than 1200 new entries, this is a bibliography of articles and books on all…