Wednesday Whatnots – Peripherals
Artvy is advertising its Milton Caniff inspired AI created illustration “art.” Personally I’m not seeing much Caniff there. Mostly just…
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CSotD: Corn Dogs and Other Tariffic Things
Lets begin with a personal laff I got from this Flying McCoys (AMS). One of my jobs as a business…
Real Life Stan Mack
Mack rolled into New York at the dawn of JFK’s New Frontier, toting a degree from the Rhode Island School…
Women Over 50 Read Comics??!!
From Sandra Bell-Lundy: My Cartooning Life – Hot Flash Woman was a super hero I created for my comic character,…
CSotD: Regrets, I’ve got a few to mention
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) gets to lead off for a second day in a row, having shifted from the informational back…
Mike Thaler – RIP
Children’s author-illustrator Mike Thaler has passed away. Michael Charles (Mike) Thaler October 8, 1936 – March 23, 2024 From the…
The Funny Pages Today … and Yesterdays
Alley Oop and Ooola transport through time to the present … exactly eighty-five years after they first did it. United…
CSotD: I’ve got the Sun in the morning and also the Moon in the morning.
Start with an explainer from Brewster Rockit (Tribune). The strip is usually an absurdist laff-fest, but it breaks from time…
MacKay Explains Editooning to Critics
If you are waiting for Graeme MacKay to apologize get comfortable because you’re going to grow old waiting. Instead Graeme…
Vintage Quincy Missing at Comics Kingdom
Quincy has not run away. But the proof sheet of the vintage Quincy daily comic strips for the week of…
CSotD: April Showers of Whatever
Michael Ramirez (Creators) starts us off with a tough one, because the facts appear to be hung up between history…
Letters To Newspapers About Their Comics
A letter to the Oregonian: The Rose is Rose cartoon of March 20 shows a cat’s version of enjoying nature…
A Silver Anniversary for Grand Avenue
April 5, 1999 saw Grand Avenue by cartoonist Steve Breen appear in newspapers around the country. Mike Thompson began helping…
CSotD: Random Acts of Political Import
I had to look up Celeste Maloy, but I already know who Pat Bagley is, and already I knew who’s…
Optimism is Olga! Liniers Speaks!
On April 2, cartoonist Liniers discussed his new book, “Macanudo: Optimism is for the Brave,” with English and Creative Writing…