Comic Stripping The Week That Was
Slylock Fox Bumped for The Pig Family on Vacation Bumping Slylock Fox from his own strip last week Friday was…
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The Rare May 34th Roundup
JD Crowe newsletter; Doug Pike novella; Stephen King and The Far Side; News Deserts and Ghost Papers; Castigating Rick McKee…
CSotD: The Vast Wasteland
I wish I thought this Arlo & Janis (AMS) were the sign of a coming revolution, but I’m not that…
40 Years of Watching Out For Dykes
Alison Bechdel informs us that it was 40 years ago this month that the July/August 1983 issue of WomaNews was…
CSotD: Wait, what?
When I saw this morning’s Prickly City (AMS), I thought it was going to win the “Bad Timing” award, dropping,…
Rarity: Casey’s Capers by Vincent Faletti
Vincent D. Faletti began cartooning while serving in the Armed Forces during World War 2. Returning home to Michigan he…
CSotD: Some clean-up, then the laffs
A follow-up from yesterday: Paul Berge’s page is always an excellent place to learn about the past in editorial cartooning,…
WPWG Comics are Slip Slidin’ Away
The Washington Post Writers Group syndicate is down to two cartoonists and three comics, none of which are widely seen…
CSotD: Memento Mori
Frazz (AMS) got it right, amid a flood of more traditional Memorial Day cartoons. We aren’t required to mourn throughout…
One Hundred Thirty Years & a Sunday Ago the First Sunday Color Comic Supplement
MIssed it last Sunday so here, a week late, is the historic anniversary of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World printing…
CSotD: Sunday Afternoon in the Park with Laffs
Candorville (KFS) often blurs the lines between its main character, Lemont Brown, and its creator, Darrin Bell, but Bell’s latest…
Cartoon News V18#5
Steve Breen of The San Diego Union-Tribune took first, second, and third place for 2022 editorial cartoons from the California…
Tina Turner – Comic Strip Heroine
Quasi-superhuman adventurer Garth was the star of a long-running (1943-1997) British comic strip. In 1992 it was being written by…
CSotD: 4 legs in the morning, 2 at noon, 3 at night
Ted Rall (Counterpoint) asks a reasonable question, but one for which there is a reasonable answer: You must crawl before…
CSotD: The Dagnabbit Files
I laughed at this New Yorker cartoon, though they don’t bother crediting their cartoonists and if you Google “New Yorker…