The Weekend Color Comics Supplement
Dick Tracy travels to South America for a two week Minit Mysteries installment. And who better to illustrate the detective’s…
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Through the Past Cartoonly
Harold and the Purple Crayon, 1960s Popeye cartoons, 1972 Sergio Aragonés poster, Little Orphan Annie and Harold Gray, 2024 San…
CSotD: Swinging Saturday
ICYMI, Rabbits Against Magic has it right: The Democratic Nominee has excellent taste in music, though Mingus is more jazz…
More Cartoonists in the News
Pat Moriarty, Hugh Kilpatrick III, Charlie Hall, Quino and Malfalda, Anton van Dalen (obit), and Mary Wings (obit). Cartoonist Pat…
Pinheads Paraphrasing Pulps
“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.” – Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely…
Wayback Whensday: Rick O’Shay & Hipshot
David Hofstedt for Cowboys & Indians remembers Rick O’Shay and Stan Lynde. The year Rick O’Shay debuted there were more…
It’s the Great Corn Maze, Charlie Brown
Peanuts and Halloween have become inextricably linked by way of The Great Pumpkin. Now… Visitors to corn mazes across the…
2024 Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award to Safiyya Hosein and Jonathan Najarian
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research…
Strip Mining the Funny Pages
Dick Tracy, Rubes, Blondie, James Bond, Gil Thorp, Tarzan, plus Tom Toro, Laura Eggleston retires, and more. Dick Tracy begins…
A Classic’s Centennial: Little Orphan Annie
One hundred years ago in the pages of The New York Daily News … The world, or New York anyway,…
Retiring at 50? Not Tank McNamara
Fifty years ago today former football player Tank McNamara made his debut as a TV news sportscaster. Seven days later,…
CSotD: So Funny I Forgot to Laugh
Our theme starts with today’s Baby Blues (AMS). My first impression was that it was another “overscheduled kids” gag, which…
A List: “15 Longest Running Comic Strips” – Naturally We Quibble and Correct
Some of comics’ most iconic characters found their homes in these long-running comic strips, from Dick Tracy to Beetle Bailey….
CSotD: Sunday Humor Break
Today’s Brewster Rockit (Tribune) got a chuckle but it brings up a topic I’ve been meaning to raise. It’s no…
A Friday Funnies Free-For-All
The British Dennis; Garfield the new comic book; deconstructing tents illustrated; the Luann Mystery Museum; Bill Watterson and Berkeley Breathed;…