Opportunities Available in All Walks of Life in Australia (Comic Strip Cartooning Excepted)
As we hit the week of Lee newspapers’ cuts to their comics pages, we also come to the week that…
Continue reading
Tuesday Talkin’ ’bout This an’ That
It’s just an invitation across the nationA chance for folks to meetThere’ll be laughing, singing and music swingingDancing in the…
CSotD: While You Were Out
The headline I really wanted to use derived from a place Then-Wife worked, in which they printed up some of…
Lee Enterprises New Comics Lineup – Update
Update – Here is the new company-wide Lee Enterprises daily comics page from September 13, 2022. Comics are from Andrews…
A Fiersk an’ Arful Pirake
He is to Popeye … what Ming is to Flash Gordon. … what Bull Dawson is to Captain Easy. ……
Meanwhile, Elsewhere in the Commonwealth…
The Courier Mail has announced the newspaper will no [longer] print comic strips, much to the dismay of the industry….
CSotD: Thank God We’re Surrounded By Water
Ann Telnaes asks a simple question, amid the continuing downpour of corgis and weeping guardsmen and crowns being passed around…
Lee Papers Go Uniform Comics Company-Wide
Recently we’ve mentioned changes to some Lee Enterprises newspapers that hinted at a company-wide change to their comics pages, though…
Diane Noomin Tributes – Updated
Update: The New York Times Obituary: One of Ms. Noomin’s most startling and moving pieces was a 1994 story called…
CSotD: You can quote me, and I hope you will
Between the death of Queen Elizabeth and the Anniversary of 9/11, things are tedious over on the editorial pages, so…
Calvin and Hobbes Original Daily Goes for $216,000 (and other original art sales)
The original art for a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, dated February 6, 1992, sold at auction for $216, 000.00….
A September Saturday and Such
We mentioned it earlier this month, but Mark Parisi waited until the actual anniversary of Off The Mark to celebrate….
CSotD: Oh, Behave Yourselves
The relentless corgi stampede continues, and Dr. MacLeod comments on the lack of imagination and creativity that it represents. I…
Tauhid Bondia’s Comic Strip is Spreading Like … Well, Like Crabgrass
A couple months ago we noted that when Crabgrass, the new comic strip by Tauhid Bondia, debuted it did so…
CSotD: Of Corgi Dogs and Queens
I wasn’t going to feature any of the 4,000 corgi cartoons today, but David Rowe’s is less about the dog…