CSotD: Judge Parker goes missing again
Things are getting pretty noir. If you’ve never followed Vintage Judge Parker (KFS), this is an excellent time to jump…
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Wayback Whensday – Tapestry to Gallery
Bayeux Tapestry as the first-ever comic strip The Bayeux Tapestry is considered one of the most famous and recognisable historical…
Judge Parker, Judge Crater, whoever
And now, from the land where cigarettes never get any shorter, here are the missing Vintage Judge Parkers from Comics…
Wayback Whensday – January Adventures
95 years ago today, on January 17, 1929, E. C. Segar introduced a new character to the comics pages. Popeye…
Sgt Pat and Radio Patrol MIA strips
Apparently, Comics Kingdom is announcing missing Vintage strips one day at a time instead of providing the missing dates and…
David Kunzle – RIP
The peerless “pre-comic strip” comic strip historian David Kunzle has passed away. David Mark Kunzle April 17, 1936 – January…
Flash Gordon and Dale Arden Age Well
That “a while back” was 90 years ago today. On January 7, 1934 King Features Syndicate introduced two new comics…
Wayback Whensday: 1837, 1906, 1998, +
Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s Paper Trends: The 300 for 1998 Scroll down for more of Jeffrey’s 1998 survey entries at the Stripper’s…
CSotD: 1924 Part One — The Commentary
New Year’s cartoons are a mandatory piece each January 1, and Alfred Brewerton didn’t try for anything breakthrough with this…
Wayback Whensday – Back Cover Bios
Antonio Prohias, Morrie Turner, Franklin Osborne Alexander, and Carl Fallberg. Paperback biographies from a book’s back cover. Book Jacket Bios…
CSotD: Have a Retro Christmas
It’s always nice to get the family together for the holidays, and here they are before they went Hollywood. As…
TDC – The Intoonational Edition
The Cartoonist Rights organization has joined a growing list of groups and people boycotting X/Twitter: Effective immediately, CARTOONISTS RIGHTS will…
Footprints On the Sands of Time by Dwig
This week’s Wayback Whensday was put in motion by a Bob Harris comment to TDC earlier this week. The Wallace…
Public Domain: Mickey and More in ’24
The big news in Public Domain 2024 is selected Mickey Mouse copyrights, whose animated shorts Steamboat Willie and The Gallopin’…
Boston Tea Party Sestercentennial Comics
Today is the semiquincentennial of an act by patriots – or maybe by smugglers? Both? December 16, 1773: Americans disguised…