Comic Strip News, Lists, and Such
Dick Tracy Hall of Famer Profiled HAMPTON — Local police officer Haley Magee, who was honored last year for rescuing…
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Laconia Daily Sun Adds Comic Strip with Local Ties to Their Comic Pages
The Laconia Daily Sun celebrated the addition of a “new” comic strip to their paper with a banner headline on…
CSotD: O brave new world, that has such machines in’t.
Arlo and Janis (AMS) have spent a delightful week or so griping about modern times, and this one hit a…
2023 National Headliner Award Winner is Clay Bennett
“Founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City, the National Headliner Awards program is one of the oldest…
Perri Hart – RIP
John Hart Studio gag writer-colorist-letterer Perri Hart has passed away. From the obituary: Perri Hart, 65, photographer, comedy writer, artist,…
CSotD: Forthcoming Election Special
Lady Justice is getting a workout on editorial pages in the wake of the E. Jean Carroll verdict, and I…
Seventy-Five Years of Rex Morgan, M.D. – but the Rex of ’48 is not the Rex of ’23
Rex Morgan, M.D. by Nick Dallis (as Dal Curtis) and Marvin Bradley & Frank Edgington debuted May 10, 1948. Below…
Cartoonist News #216 (May, ’23)
featuring Ted Richards, Nate Neal, Duane Abel, Jenny Campbell, Tony Husband, and Ben Oda. The Comics Journal has a Ted…
CSotD: Tuesday’s World of Amusement
This week, Frazz (AMS) reminds me that I spent most of the summer of 1958 having my fighter plane shot…
Missed It: Loose Parts’ 25th
In the 1990s Dave Blazek and John Gilpin were working for the Philadelphia Inquirer when they thought it would be…
Mona Chalabi Awarded 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
The 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalists and winners were announced today. For the category of Illustrated Reporting and Commentary the finalists…
Sam Gross – RIP
Cartoonist Sam Gross has passed away. Saturday Review, Argosy, True, Good Housekeeping, Rogue, Gent, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Playboy, Penthouse,…
CSotD: Puns, Magic and Shaggy Dogs
Discussion in the comments section the other day revealed quite a bit of confusion around the term “pun” and the…
Expanded Lee Enterprises Papers Coming Soon … And Half as Often … By Mail
A number of Lee Enterprises newspapers have published a boilerplate statement informing their readers that, come June 6, the print…
“Little Mice” by Caleb Spell, New Local Comic Strip by 13-Year-Old
The Dunkirk (NY) Observer began carrying a new weekly comic strip on Sunday May 7, 2023. Caleb Spell, creator of…