Bunk Griffin – RIP
Chef and cartoonist Phil “Bunk” Griffin has passed away. Philip M. (Bunk) Griffin June 17, 1940 – October 16, 2024…
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CSotD: Breathless Laughter
This Buckets (AMS) is as close to the Washpo/LATimes thing as I’m getting today. As I wrote yesterday, I’m impressed…
A Wayback Whensday Weekend Edition
V. T. Hamlin’s Alley Oop; Bob Chambers’ Halifax; Pogo’s letterers Walt Kelly, George Ward, and Henry Shikuma; and a couple…
Miss Cellany Observes The Passing Show
Billy Ireland & Jenny Robb, Marshall Ramsey, Ernie Bushmiller, Ward Sutton & Stan Kelly, Paul Gilligan, and Mort Walker, Bill…
CSotD: Darkness at News
There have been a number of cartoons responding to Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos having spiked an endorsement for Kamala…
Charles Fredrick – RIP
Cartoonist Charles Fredrick has passed away. Charles Wright Fredrick November 3, 1942 – October 4, 2024 From the obituary: Charles…
Paper’s Prohibition of Political Pogo
It is late October in The Year of Our Lord 1968, a Presidential Election year. The election is two weeks…
CSotD: Knaves, Fools & the Servant of Two Masters
We’ll get to knaves and fools in a minute, but first a salute to unintentional genius, as The Brilliant Mind…
Going… Going… Sold!
Auctions featuring original comic and cartoon art and comic books. Occasionally a comic book collection of immense value goes public….
Cartoonists on a Scroll
Featuring Bianca Xunise, Chip Beck, Alan Hardman, Eli Valley, Patrick McDonnell, Herblock, Larry Todd, Matt Wuerker, Ann Telnaes, Michael Ramirez,…
CSotD: The Fourth Estate and the Fifth Column
I don’t know the lead time for Prickly City (AMS), but it’s been a very long time since Harris began…
Mahasen al-Khateeb – RIP
Palestinian artist/cartoonist Mahasen al-Khateeb died in an Israeli airstrike in Jabalia on October 18. She was 32. Mahasen was a…
Roz Chast Gets National Humanities Medal
President Joseph R. Biden presented the 2022 and 2023 National Humanities Medals, in conjunction with the National Medals of Arts,…
Wayback Whensday – Terry and Mary
Ninety years ago yesterday one of the greatest 1930s adventure strips debuted in the New York Daily News It would…
CSotD: The Actually Files
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) indulges in some theological speculation. It’s inappropriate to tell other people how to mourn, and while…