CSotD: The Evil That Men Do
‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.’ — “Julius Caesar” Act 3, scene…
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This Week’s Whatnots
Dennis the Menace Gets Royal Stamp Treatment The Beano comic is celebrating its 70th anniversary and to mark the milestone…
The Pummeling of The Pulitzers Proceeds Apace
All three 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalists in the Editorial Cartooning category were in the news recently which means the Pulitzer…
Bernstein, Blum, Lockman, Newman Get The Finger
The San Diego Comic-Con has announced the comics writers who will be awarded The Bill Finger Award this year….
CSotD: Sea the Way comics looked in 1958
As you’re reading the blog this morning, I’m somewhere in the Western Adirondacks, so, when I was deciding on a…
Pogo, Spider-Man, Li’l Abner 1972 N.Y.Times Strips
In 1972 The New York Times Magazine contacted a few cartoonists for each to work up a page oftheir famous…
Bloom County – April Fools’ Come in June This Year
We were sorely disappointed when April Fool’s Day came and went this year without Berkeley Breathed‘s annual tribute to Calvin…
CSotD: Friday Funnies Come On A Wednesday This Week
Since my headline is a takeoff on a Churchyism, I’ll start the day with a suggestion for anyone within range…
Jim Thompson’s Code Red Comics at RedState
Editorial and sports cartoonist Jim Thompson has a new gig at the conservative website RedState with a (mostly) daily cartoon…
Stock Up for The Fourth, Bring Your Own Bagley
Journalism and beer. Beer and journalism. Philosophically, the two pair just about as good as anything. To that end, Fisher…
CSotD: Holding a few rights to be self-evident
Clay Jones posts a cartoon in anticipation of this weekend’s holiday, raising an issue that, while hardly new, remains of…
Ziggy’s Tom Wilson. Jr. (Tom II) Interviewed
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Ziggy‘s first dated panel GoComics interviews Tom Wilson, Jr., the son and…
New Jules Feiffer Comic
It has been over a year since Jules Feiffer added art to the Tablet site. I keep his page bookmarked…
CSotD: In Re Chauvin (dissenting)
The sentencing of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd has aroused a lot of emotion and several…
Cartoonists Unclassified
Former NCS President Tom Richmond shows off his caricature skills with a recent job for CNN. This consisted of a…