CSotD: Spun Out
Cartooning doesn’t have a lot of rules, but “If you thought of it fast, so did everyone else” is pretty…
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Dennis Renault – RIP
Editorial cartoonist Dennis Renault has passed away. Dennis Julian Renault August 23, 1936 – October 19, 2022 The Sacramento Bee…
CSotD: What a Fool Believes
We’ll start the day with a little crossover from the funny pages, because Snuffy Smith (KFS) sets the tone for…
Adams Hoped Dilbert “Get Cancelled Over This”
After raising a fuss last month over Lee Enterprises dropping Dilbert, cartoonist Scott Adams said he was “kinda hoping [Dilbert]…
RIP Little Max
Joe Palooka began in the Spring of 1930, eight years later, in the Spring of 1938, the very popular comic…
CSotD: Weekend Ponderings
I’m so old that, when I saw today’s Pooch Cafe, I thought, “Well, there’s a cartoon that appeals to the…
Steve Stark Retires – updated
The North Dakota Forum editorial cartoonist Steve Stark is retiring after 34 years. From InForum’s profile: Steve Stark was…
CSotD: All Trussed Up And No Place To Go
Well, that didn’t take long, though, as one wag noted on social media, Liz Truss served two monarchs. Still, as…
A Happy 90th to Lee Lorenz (belated)
Belatedly we welcome cartoonist Lee Lorenz to our Senior Strippers club. Michael Maslin notified us (for some reason our notebook…
Re: Editorial Type Cartoonists
Clay and The Klan Clay Jones got banned again: Oh yeah: Facebook pulled this cartoon for “violating” its terms of…
CSotD: Pumpkin pie and other tests
In the Vanishing Skills Department, today’s Grand Avenue suggests that nobody in the chain of cartoonist-to-editor-to-syndicate knows how to bake…
Visiting a Gorey House for Halloween
On a June day too dank for the beach, a three-generation carload of Goreyphiles—fans of the American author, illustrator, and…
Ann Cleaves – RIP
Editorial cartoonist Ann Cleaves has passed away. Ann Elspeth Whitney Cleaves July 26, 1945 – July 7, 2022 From…
Re: Comic Strip Type Cartoonists
© Patrick McDonnell Patrick McDonnell passes on a little inside stuff: MUTTS might look a little different to you this…
CSotD: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dilemma
There were reasons Elizabeth Cady Stanton was somewhat eased off center stage in her later years, and her advocacy of…