Frank Renlie – RIP
Cartoonist, illustrator, and painter Frank Renlie has passed away. Frank Hanson Renlie April 17, 1936 – September 10, 2023 From…
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CSotD: Kerb Your Enthusiasm
A local cartoon, certainly, but one that will amuse people far from Glasgow. Steven Camley notes that police there are…
Unified Comics Page Sweepstakes Winners and how to help those left out in the cold
So who came out ahead with the recent spat of newspaper groups standardizing their comics pages? Gannett/USA TODAY Network with…
CSotD is XIV
I cobbled this photo together in the early days of Comic Strip of the Day, but, as the blog turns…
Jose Delbo – RIP
Comic book and comic strip artist Jose Delbo has passed away. Jose Delbo (José María Del Bo) December 9, 1933…
Catching Up on the Comics Pages
It’s been a while since I shared some current comic strips, so let’s do some catching up. I’m a sucker…
The Phantom Writer Tony DePaul on Revising Lee Falk’s “The Chain”
HERE’S that piece I said I’d get to on the new Phantom daily story that started two weeks ago. The…
CSotD: Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
The Grammys will be tonight and I will continue my annual tradition of not caring. David Sipress is correct that…
CSotD: Saturday Morning Cartoons
Edison Lee (KFS) has returned to a theme that I have missed. Some years ago, they introduced Katie, a girl…
Free-For-All Friday
Ruben Bolling tells us that a comic strip he produces under a pseudonym has ended. From his newsletter: It is…
Newspaper Triples its Sunday Funnies
Here is what we need more of – a newspaper ADDING to its weekend color comics section. The Danville (Illinois)…
CSotD: Technically Funny
My first reaction to this Non Sequitur (AMS) was that it’s impossible. We all know that the way you learn…
McClatchy Standard Comics Pages Update
It’s been three years since we first reported on McClatchy standardizing the comics pages in all their papers. Since that…
Wallace the Brave and Garfield Return – Separated by 45 Years
The Providence Journal gave notice that Will Henry’s Wallace the Brave comic strip returned to the newspaper on Monday January…
Wash. Times: G. B. Trudeau Has a Severe Case of Trump Derangement Syndrome
If the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, used by psychiatrists, were to officially recognize Trump Derangement Syndrome as…