2024 Eisner Hall of Fame Inductees Named – Their Comic Strip Credentials
San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have selected 19 individuals to automatically be inducted…
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Sunday Funnies & The New Comics Kingdom – Thoughts
Some thoughts on scrolling through The Sunday Funnies on the new revised Comics Kingdom site. That gawdawful black background has…
CSotD: 2 a.m. in the Sophomore Dorm
We’ll start with today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), a relatively gentle example of the sorts of ideas that emerge from the…
Foreign Funnies: Mere Quacks Ends
A cartoonist who thought his comic strip about a town’s ducks would last a month has retired after 51 years….
Donna Lewis – Reply All to Counterpoint, Reply All Lite Lost? – finding Lite update
The Reply All comic strip by Donna A. Lewis has switched syndicates this past week. above: Reply All for February…
CSotD: Fair Points and Foul
The Internets are full of cartoons marking the planned retirement of Mitch McConnell as Republican Senate Leader, many of them…
Rosebuds by Supr Dee Goes King Features
New features are popping at King Features Syndicate and Comics Kingdom. This week saw The Saga of Brann Bjornson and…
CSotD: Friday Variety Pack
I like cartoons that make demands on their audience, and Andertoons did a lovely job here of requiring readers to…
Cartoonists as Exhibitionists
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer at MoMA March 7 – 14, 2024 More information and a…
Stephen Webster’s Saga of Brann Bjornson New Comic Strip at Comics Kingdom
Saga is the story of a Viking named Brann Bjornson and his large family as they cope with the modernization…
CSotD: Through a Glass, Darkly
Paul Fell lays out one of the major issues in the upcoming elections, which is that a significant portion of…
Drabble at 45; Kevin Fagan at…a Bit More
Cartoonist Kevin Fagan grew up idolizing Charles M. Schulz and “Peanuts.” Now that his own comic strip, “Drabble,” is turning…
Wayback Whensday: Peanuts, Tarzan Bear It
Dale Hale takes on Peanuts; George Lichty Grins and Bears It; Burne Hogarth becomes king of Tarzan’s jungle jive. Dale…
CSotD: Of Marshmallows and Monotremes
Frazz (AMS) starts us off with a head-scratcher. I think the observation is right, but it comes from a direction…
Jen Sorensen Accepts NPF Berryman Award
As was reported the National Press Foundation (NPF) awarded Jen Sorensen the 2023 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award…