New Timetable for Time Keeper Mara Llave
After a troubled past, the comic strip not the character (well, maybe the character too), Alex Segura & Nickolej Villiger’s…
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Wayback Whensday Wonders
Origins of the comic strip gutter?; MIckey Mouse’s Friends; More about Han Ola og han Per; Future Funnies; and pre-Tiger…
Whatnot Wednesday Weirdness
Newspapers From this past weekend’s Albany Times-Union: On April 4, 1924, the Times Union told its readers it had officially…
CSotD: Humpday Humor
Loose Parts (AMS) hits at a good moment. I tried a hole-in-the-wall pizza place yesterday, and when I paid, got…
Gary and Bob, Hägar’s Ghost Cartoonists – but mostly Gary
Bob Weber, Jr., he of Slylock Fox fame, and Gary Hallgren, he of Air Pirates Funnies fame, have been friends…
Bill Hinds is NCS Gold T-Square Recipient
Tank McNamara cartoonist Bill Hinds to be honored. From the National Cartoonists Society: Bill Hinds will be presented with the…
CSotD: Satire, Parody and Homage
Steve Brodner offers an affectionate portrait and tribute to his friend and mentor, Lewis Lapham, a legendary editor at Harper’s…
E.S. Glenn: New Yorker to Comics Kingdom
E. S. (Everett Samuel) Glenn is a comic creator and a New Yorker cartoonist, and soon he will be a…
Corporate (Not Mea) Culpa Comics
The recent CrowdStrike debacle gives lessons for all of us in how to (and how not to) communicate in a…
Miss Cellany Talkin’ ‘Bout This an’ That
Here’s an oddity: A Garfield Sunday where everyone is happy about everything. Just a coincidence that it is Jon Arbuckle’s…
2024 Eisner Awards – Selected Winners
Fridays at the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) is Eisner Award night, this year that was last night July 26,…
Trudeau Derangement Syndrome
Garry B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury comic strip isn’t the powerhouse influencer it was in the mid-1970s when Trudeau won The Pulitzer…
CSotD: Humor, intelligent and otherwise
You’re showing your age, Barry Blitt. I, too, remember the horror we felt learning that the French considered Jerry Lewis…
Irreverent Comics
The same month that a Sydney Australia council removed a “playful” artwork of Jesus … Sydney artist Philjames’ work, Jesus…
Santa Maria Times Goes All King Features
Over the course of Spring 2024 The Santa Maria Times print comics page has been slowly switching to a King…