WaPo Has New Illustrated Reporting Page
The Washington Post created a page on their website dedicated to comics journalism. The Washington Post Illustrated Reporting page gathers…
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Wayback Whensday
Blondie Boopadoop, Popeye, Longest-Running Comic Strips, Dennis the Menace, Harold Wilson. Blondie Bumstead, née Boopadoop? Before she married Dagwood Bumstead,…
CSotD: Life in the Alternative Reality
This is one of those “Where do I start?” days, but Eric Allie (Counterpoint) offers a segue from yesterday, in…
Newspaper Says Editorial Cartoonist a Must
[W]hen Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Sack decided to retire last year after four decades at [The Minneapolis Star Tribune], Opinion Editor…
Cartoon Problems at The Washington Post
Mike Rhode is a general comics scholar with a particular interest in Washington, D. C. cartoonists as revealed through his…
CSotD: Timing is everything
Ed Wexler poses the question of whether Dianne Feinstein learned anything from the results of Ruth Bader Ginsburg lingering on…
Sidney Harris = Senior Stripper
A belated Happy Birthday to cartoonist Sidney Harris who turned 90 years old last Monday. Having been born on May…
Hey Kids! Comics! May Books Be With You
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through…
CSotD: Monday Miscellany
Might as well start with the one for which I have no answer. Patrick Blower explores the future of the…
Catch A Falling Star And…
Following are a few items saved for a rainy day – though here in California, except for the higher altitudes…
CSotD: Sunday Ketchup
Scott Stantis seems to be catching up on some hostility for ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, in a cartoon that ran shortly…
Barney & Clyde and Counterpoint
Weeks after finding out that Counterpoint Media had taken on Rudy Park we now discover, again months late, that Counterpoint…
CSotD: Thoughts, prayers and faith w/o action
Ed Hall points out the need to not look away. I appreciate, on one hand, the people who said of…
Help Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive May 13
Every second Saturday in May, letter carriers in more than 10,000 cities and towns across America collect the goodness and…
CSotD: Looking at CNN’s version of newsmaking
Wednesday’s CNN Town Hall wasn’t quite as transformative as Chip Bok (Creators) paints it, but it certainly demonstrated the media…