New Comic Strip Funny Books
Those fabulous floppy funny books that were everywhere in our youth began as showcases for comic strips. Now, except for…
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Gannett Comic Consolidations This Weekend – Updated: Cheaper By the Dozens
Original January 20 post: Another batch of Gannett newspapers announcing their adoption of The Gannett 34 comics pages. The Austin…
CSotD: Rated PG-13 – Parental Caution Urged
Someone emailed me to complain about Thursday’s Barney & Clyde (Counterpoint), not particularly saying it should be forbidden so much…
Comic Strips and Comic Strip Trivia
The week started, more or less since Monday was a holiday, with a Tuesday adjacent comics synchronicity. Pearls Before Swine…
Cartoonists in the News – A Roundup
Donnie Pitchford, Ralph Steadman, Paul Ackley, Jerry Craft, Clay Jones, Angelo Lopez, Liana Finck, Jim Toomey, Jack Mallette, and the…
The New Comics Kingdom Coming Soon
First – a little catching up from Rob Tornoe at Editor & Publisher last Fall: Over at King Features Syndicate,…
Tony DePaul on The Phantom Future’s Past
Tony DePaul on his, more-or-less monthly these days, blog chimed in on the just ended Wrack and Ruin: On Phantom…
Wayback Whensday – January Adventures
95 years ago today, on January 17, 1929, E. C. Segar introduced a new character to the comics pages. Popeye…
Wallace the Brave Returns to ProJo
From Lynne Sullivan of The Providence Journal: After we announced the debut of a refreshed comics page, more than 200…
CSotD: Tuesday Potpourri
Two days ago, I complimented Wiley Miller for timing a Non Sequitur (AMS) commenting on the Patriots’ lousy season such…
Hey Kids! Comics! New Year, New Comics
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2024 release.Images and links from a variety of publishers…
Wrack and Ruin and Shaggy Dogs
From TV Tropes: A “Shaggy Dog” Story is a plot with a high level of build-up and complicating action, only…
Gannett Comic Switch – 2 Minute Warning
… will introduce a revamped and updated comics section on Monday, Jan. 15… Beginning Jan. 15, we are excited to…
CSotD: A Variety of Snow Jobs
Our impending political disaster is grim enough that Andertoons (AMS) manages to mine it not so much for an actual…
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Illustrated by F.A. McGinn
The Daily Cartoonist joins the public domain crowd by presenting the adaptation of 1927’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin film. Itself an…