New Mexican Comics Poll Results
Last week The Santa Fe New Mexican asked its readers to rate the comics in the paper. In a mini-poll,…
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CSotD: Sunday Funnies for the Old Folks
My initial response to today’s Duplex (AMS) was to wonder just how old that movie is, and, when I looked…
Georgia Dunn to Undergo Hand Surgery
Breaking Cat News cartoonist Georgia Dunn has revealed that she will have hand surgery (her drawing hand) on April 11…
Reports of Dilbert’s Syndicated Demise Were Premature – Update
Original March 18 post: I opened up the local weekend edition of my newspaper and there at the top of…
Diverse Items About Diverse Cartoonists
Ann Telnaes, Chris Browne, Jules Feiffer, Joe Heller, Ellis Rosen, Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra. Dave Whamond, Jeff Millar and…
CSotD: Non-Christian Charity
Francis (AMS) combines the dread news of the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the beginning…
Joe Giella – RIP
Comic strip and comic book artist Joe Giella has passed away. From the Joe Giella – Artist Facebook page: The…
Wayback Wednesday w/ Watterson & others
Bill Watterson, Charles Schulz, Frank Engli, Alan Foster, and more. News of new Bill Watterson material prompts Colin McEvoy at…
Cartooning and Comic Strips
How he does a Sally Forth pseudo-wallpaper strip. From cartoonist Jim Keefe: Artist Fun Fact: When working on a Sunday…
Rarity: Great Disasters in American History
October and November of 1936 saw dozens of newspapers print six daily format comic strips relating some catastrophes of the…
CSotD: Monday Round-up
Flo’s Diner in Non Sequitur (AMS) had a new customer this past week, one who could rival Captain Eddie in…
Gaming The Funny Pages
When Joe Wos heard that his MazeToon runs side-by-side with Jeff Keane’s The Family Circus in Victoria he devised a…
Updating King Features Weekly Service – Updated
King Features regularly issues a directory for its syndicated offerings, but this week they surprised us by putting up a…
CSotD: Heaven, Hell, Beer and so forth
Well, Arlo (AMS), the problem is that you’re celebrating the wrong saint. If you wait two days, you can have…
100 Years Ago: Skippy by Percy L. Crosby
Percy Crosby was born in 1891 and was working and cartooning for newspapers before he was out of his teens….