CSotD: Bouquets and Brickbats
Can’t argue with Danae in today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), though mainly because I don’t want her coming after me on…
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Reader Outcry Keeps Arlo and Janis in Paper
After announcing upcoming changes to their comics page The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion Ledger heard from fans of Jimmy Johnson‘s comic…
Comic Strip Bric-a-Brac
Public domain Mickey (aka Steamboat Willie) continues to appear in comic strips. Ruben Bolling‘s newest Tom the Dancing Bug character…
A Day Late Edition of Wayback Whensday (That Was Then Thursday?)
Gaar Williams: The Indiana Ink-Slinger; The Cartoonist Who Helped Usher in Jim Crow; Kunzle and the Comic Strip; Setting the…
CSotD: Comics Relief
A door panel blew out on a Boeing jet the other day. Perhaps you heard. Matt Pritchett came up with…
Anchorage Daily News Cuts Comics Roster
In what is turning into an annual event The Anchorage Daily News (ADN) has changed the make up of the…
CSotD: Monday Miscellany
Joy of Tech takes a shot at Facebook, which has launched a new way of tracking your activity in order…
Wallace the Brave Loses Local Newspapers
As part of the Gannett/USA TODAY Network The Providence Journal is implementing the corporate imperative to switch their comics page(s)…
Flash Gordon and Dale Arden Age Well
That “a while back” was 90 years ago today. On January 7, 1934 King Features Syndicate introduced two new comics…
Concerning Recent Newspaper Cartoons
Big Nate began the new year by spending an enjoyable (for readers) week with his grandparents at an old folks…
Gannett’s Clarion Ledger Changes Comics – Updated with Indianapolis Star Changes
Under the headline “Clarion Ledger refreshes comic lineup based on reader input, changing tastes” the Mississippi newspaper informed readers that…
CSotD: Visions and revisions
In today’s Between Friends (KFS), Maeve has been awarded the Cardboard Box and ambitious suck-up Jim is feigning surprise. But,…
Comic Strip & Comic Strip Adjacent News
The Monster and Mike Doonesbury, Milholland and The Mouse, Hugs and Kisses from Peanuts, Bret Blevins and Judge Alan Parker,…
Wayback Whensday: 1837, 1906, 1998, +
Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s Paper Trends: The 300 for 1998 Scroll down for more of Jeffrey’s 1998 survey entries at the Stripper’s…
John M. Burns – RIP
British comic artist John M. Burns has passed away. John Michael Burns 1938 – December 29, 2023 From John Freeman:…