Cartoonists: Bill Griffith, Tom Scott, Steve Ditko, Rube Goldberg, Jeff Kinney, Will McPhail
Interview: Bill Griffith, Nobody’s Fool, and a Grand Career in Comics In 1976, Zippy began to appear in about…
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National Women’s Hall of Fame Inducts Rose O’Neill
The National Women’s Hall of Fame announced their 2019 inductees. Cartoonist Rose O’Neill of Kewpies fame was among the…
Women’s History Month – Cartoonist Wing
Seems as good a time as any to drop these recent comic strip articles. Where I’m Coming From by…
That @$*#%! Gene Carr and His $%#@ Grawlix – Updated with 19th Century Grawlixes
See that man below? The one with the foul mouth? He invented comic strip cursing. (Or not, see update…
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The Return of Maakies??!! Tony Millionaire‘s alternative comic strip Maakies ran from 1994 to 2016. It kinda returned in…
Some Recent Comics Shtuff
It’s Gahan Wilson’s Birthday! Happy Birthday to Gahan Wilson. To celebrate here’s a recent audio interview with the master…
Hey Kids! Comics! What I Want For Valentines’
above: Liò by Mark Tatulli Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2019 release. Images…
Non Sequitur Vulgar Message to Trump Costs Wiley Paper(s) – update: Cartoonist & Syndicate Respond
From the Butler Eagle: “A reader brought to our attention that one of the syndicated comic strips which appears in…
CSotD: Awaiting the next issue
Things are quiet at the moment and, as Pat Bagley indicates, the Republican base is restoring its bearings in anticipation…
CSotD: Peace on Earth, if you can keep it
Christmas a century ago, as we’ll see, featured many of the same holiday comic strip themes as today, but, as…
CSotD: Potpourri & Popeye
Let’s get the political piece out of the way first: In today’s Non Sequitur, Wiley Miller comments on the new…
The (Air) Pirated Mickey Mouse
This is the story of five kids and a mouse. It begins with a boy—Dan O’Neill, who, at 21,…
20 Things You Didn’t Know About Dr. Seuss
You’ve probably been pronouncing “Seuss” wrong. Sorry, but Seuss is not pronounced “Soose.” Instead, Dr. Seuss and his family,…
Comic Strip of the Day: The Origins of the Great Pumpkin
There were a lot of cartoons today about the grownups eating the candy and other stalwarts of the season, which…
CSotD: The Demands of Mourning
Paul Fell notes the futility of “Moments of Silence” followed by “Months of Inaction,” which puts his piece head-and-shoulders above…