Newspaper Well Check/Death Watch
Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab: Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, should wake up each morning thankful for the existence of…
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Robert Moncrieff – RIP
M.D. and cartoonist Robert Moncrieff has passed away. From the obituary: Robert (Bob) Moncrieff of Monte Sereno, California, passed away…
CSotD: Of Banks and Busts and Sealing Whacks
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that Kal Kallaugher, who cartoons for the Economist among other clients, should demonstrate some…
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…
CSotD: Random bets; Random payoffs
Let’s start at the mellow end of the scale for a change. Joe Heller makes a March Madness joke, and,…
Back in My Day (Some Comics History)
A Look at the Future from the 200 Years Ago What did the future look like in 1820s Britain? Poking…
CSotD: The Wars Within
Ann Telnaes lays out the real situation for anyone who thought Dobbs was a single movement. People who predicted that…
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…
Sides of March (Wednesday Roundup)
News with Monte Wolverton, Brian Fies, Roy Lichtenstein, George Herriman, Lucy Shelton Caswell, and Shantell Martin. When Cartoonists are No…
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….
CSotD: While we wait for the auditors
As expected, I’m seeing a lot of SVB cartoons, some of which are entirely off target, some of which are…
Hey Kids! Comics! The Books of March
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through…
Joe Wos Finds the Path to Comics Kingdom
Fourteen months after Joe Wos switched his MazeToons from Creators to King Features the panel has finally been added to…
CSotD: Bank shots and direct hits
We’ll start the day with a pair of cartoons about a topic I’m not going to cover yet, though I…