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Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via the books’ publishers,though…
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Griffith’s Observatory: Bushmiller and Nancy
Cartoonist and biographer Bill Griffith has an obsession with Ernie Bushmiller and Nancy and Sluggo. In the past seventeen strips…
Wayback Whensday: Scrappy, Seuss, Gordo
Harry McCracken in Scrappyland Preeminent Scrappy historian Harry McCracken returns, after a two year absence, to present a print off-shoot…
The Lost Week in Apartment 3-G
King Features archives have lost (never had?) the Field Syndicate proof sheet for this week’s Vintage Apartment 3-G. From The…
Black Friday Free-For-All
Ed Subitzky, Walt Handelsman, David Sipress, Roger Kastel, Ron Turner, Denis Kitchen, and more. Speaking of leftovers – here’s some…
Current Comics – 75 Years After 1948
Of the two-score-minus-one comic strips Mike Peterson displayed from 1948 seven are still being syndicated with new content in 2023….
CSotD: Thanksgiving 75 Years Ago
My goodness but 1948 was a fabulous year for cartoons! We were emerging from the war and feeling pretty good,…
Wayback Whensday – Bucky Bug, Air Hawk, Sadie Hawkins, and Steve Bentley (et. al.)
The origin of National Sadie Hawkins Day: How a comic strip that saw a man desperate to marry off his…
Mitzi McCoy – Kevin the Bold – Up Anchor
Seventy-five years ago, on November 7, 1948, the Sunday only Mitzi McCoy by illustrator Kreigh Collins debuted. Maurice Horn described…
Wayback Whensday: Ally, Alley, Buz & Bois
It was the ranchlands of West Texas, rich in prehistoric outcroppings and an air of primeval antiquity, that had given…
Barbara Brandon Cartoon Career Illustrated
While comics have appeared in print since the late 1800s, it wasn’t until 1989 that “Black women characters drawn by…
Wayback Wednesday – Comic Strips
Eighty years ago Batman and Robin swung from comic books onto newspaper pages on October 25, 1943. The 13th Dimension…
CSotD: Flashbacks
This classic xkcd may not quite express my long-term financial plan, but I’m glad I have been saving funny pictures,…
Gannett Cartoonist Profiles Series, Part 3: Dean Young
Hold them side by side. The “Blondie” comic strip created by Chic Young for Sept. 8, 1930 is told in…
CSotD: California, here I come!
As you are reading this, I am en route to the AAEC Convention in San Francisco, which I will report…