CSotD: Truths on the Funny Pages
Lemont confronts a harsh truth in today’s Candorville (WPWG) and not a bad introduction to Labor Day. To put a…
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August Items About Charlie Brown and Co.
The new book Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz presents the story of the creator of…
Pros & Cons by Kieran Meehan 2005-2023 – update
As Comics Kingdom informs us, “Pros and Cons is no longer offered as the author has ended the comic strip.”…
CSotD: Friday Funny-Not-Funnies
I would have used this Existential Comics discussion yesterday if I’d realized the concept of theft and/or compensation was going…
CSotD: Art, ethics and survival
Glad I didn’t use this Pearls Before Swine (AMS) when it appeared Sunday, because there has been an explosion of…
Wayback Whensday – Beginnings & Endings
Matt Groening and Life in Hell, Bruce Petty and the Vietnam War, Etta Hulme and Comic Books, Art Evans and…
Ella by Nathan Archer 2020 – 2023
Ella, Nathan Archer’s weekly comic strip for The Tallahassee Democrat, ended earlier this year. Nathan Archer had been a regular…
CSotD: How We Learn (or don’t)
I think Jonesy is being a little hard on meaningless connective phrases, but that may be because I tend to…
Paper Capers and the Sunday Funnies
Giving a shout-out to Crankshaft. For shedding light on evil authoritarian figures who are trying to keep people away from…
CSotD: Flatulent Felines & various other notions
Yesterday was National Dog Day or some such, but I posted too early to realize it, so I’ll compensate with…
Two Ducks Walk Into A Bar and Other Tales
So yesterday I’m scrolling through Facebook when among the innumerable “suggested for you” posts comes a comic panel so I…
The Old Comics Page Returns to Park Hill
On September 13, 2022, as part of the Lee Enterprises newspaper group, the Daily Journal of Park Hill, Missouri, on…
Felix the Cat Comic Strip Centennial
Felix the Cat was created by Pat Sullivan in 1919 and became the animated superstar of the 1920s. The public’s…
Just Another Wayback Whensday
The Phantom and The Muppets from the 1980s; Paul Bunyan from the early 20th Century, comic strip lettering from later…
Ginger Meggs 1921 – 2023
After a continuous newspaper run of 102 years the Australian comic strip Ginger Meggs has ended. The strip began November…