Trippin’ Thru the Sunday Funnies
Doonesbury, to paraphrase Mike Peterson, is The Comic Strip of the Month. © G. B. Trudeau The last panel of…
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CSotD: Mixed Bag
Between countless variations on Putin painting himself into a corner and even more versions of people slapping other people, political…
Stan Mott – RIP
Automobile cartoonist and artist Stan Mott has passed away. Stanley Frederick (Stan) Mott February 27, 1933 – March 22,…
Weekend Roundup: Cartoonists in the News
For those who have access to a newsstand that sells the April 2022 issue of Washingtonian – grab it….
CSotD: Trivia thank god
It’s a frightening world out there. As Mike Lester (AMS) predicts, Disney plans to groom our children, indoctrinating them to…
Fools’ Silver – The Great Switcheroonie
Twenty-five years ago Jim Scancarelli‘s Gasoline Alley mentioned comics characters looking funny. And the comics did look off-model that day…
CSotD: Hateful Fools Day
We’ll start our April Fool’s Day coverage at Rob Rogers’ website, where he either had a technical glitch or an…
When Overground Cartoonists Went Underground
The late 1960s to the mid 1970s was the height of the underground comix, and the creators and producers of…
Tony Saltzman – RIP
Cartoonist Tony Saltzman has passed away. Anthony Zola (Tony) Saltzman March 27, 1938 – March 24, 2022 From the obituary:…
CSotD: Two Score and 14 Years Ago … (YMMV)
The tradition is to mark history in round numbers, and 54 years ago is hardly that, but March 31, 1968…
Dana Summers – Bound & Gagged for 30 Years
As the introduction said, thirty years ago Dana Summers was already an editorial cartoonist and comic strip cartoonist when he…
CSotD: The United States of Hooterville
RJ Matson keeps the matter of Clarence Thomas’s ethical failures before the public, which I think is important, given the…
Mr. Fitz Ends (or maybe it’s just a sabbatical)
Yesterday was 22 years since a comic strip debuted, tomorrow will be its last day. Mr. Fitz by David Lee…
CSotD: Priorities
Deb Milbrath saved me from running a blank panel by offering not only a comment that jibes with my own…
A Belated Weekend Roundup
Right-wing forces are still ignoring facts and promoting divisiveness. Liberals are still gutless. Religion is still the greatest threat…