CSotD: Seven More Days in May
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — Stephen Dedalus As Doonesbury concluded back in 1971,…
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Hail and Farewell Trina
Some more thoughts on the lovely life of Trina Robbins from Andrew Farago at The Comics Journal, John Lent of…
Wayback Whensday: Comic Stamps and Funny Money
A couple Sundays ago we noted Bob Weber, Jr.’s use of Lucky Bucks and crediting Paul Fung. We also linked…
CSotD: Humpday Humor
If you haven’t been reading Crabgrass (AMS), you should start now, and begin here because today’s would be too much…
Free Atena
From Radio Free Europe: PEN America, along with a group of organizations that support cartoonists and artists, has condemned the…
NCS at C2E2 on 4/26-28/2024
The National Cartoonists Society will have a booth at the Chicago Comic & Enterrtainment Expo on April 26 – 28….
CSotD: Truth, or a reasonable facsimile thereof
We’ll start our search with Cathy Wilcox’s commentary on keeping young people off social media, in which she raises the…
Bob Lynch – RIP
Editorial cartoonist Bob Lynch has passed away. Robert Emery (Bob) Lynch April 1933 – April 6, 2024 From the obituary:…
2024 Eisner Hall of Fame Nominees Offered – Their Comic Strip Credentials
San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have chosen 16 nominees from whom voters will…
CSotD: Jokers, Poseurs and Thieves
Frazz (AMS) starts us with a reminder that some things can’t be purchased, except of course that they can. As…
Nancy Beiman – A New Start After 60
When Nancy Beiman was 65 and contemplating retirement from her job as a professor of animation, she had no clue…
The Sunday Color Comic Supplement
The current Mary Worth makes me wonder if June Brigman ever drew Angel and the Ape. “According to my research”…
CSotD: According to somebody else’s research …
Pickles (AMS) offers a lovely example of tightrope walking, with a gag that its audience will get, even if they…
The Readers Sent Them A Letter
G. B. Trudeau has gone too far! From The Oregonian: Another reader responds in The Oregonian letters section: A reader…
Obituary Redux
Since The Daily Cartoonist has reported the deaths of Don Wright, Bob Beerbohm, and Trina Robbins others, including The New…