CSotD: Visions and revisions
In today’s Between Friends (KFS), Maeve has been awarded the Cardboard Box and ambitious suck-up Jim is feigning surprise. But,…
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Jim Keefe Gets Added to Our Patreon List. You There?
Support Your Local (or Distant) Cartoonist Mike set it up last year and we occasionally add to it and post…
The Als of AI (Midjourney, AI Generator)
Continuing with Mike’s plagiarism theme of this morning we come to MalMidjourney. During the New Year’s weekend, artists linked to…
CSotD: A Second Front in our Second Civil War
“(N)o plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.” — Judge Learned Hand…
Comic Strip & Comic Strip Adjacent News
The Monster and Mike Doonesbury, Milholland and The Mouse, Hugs and Kisses from Peanuts, Bret Blevins and Judge Alan Parker,…
Wayback Whensday: 1837, 1906, 1998, +
Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s Paper Trends: The 300 for 1998 Scroll down for more of Jeffrey’s 1998 survey entries at the Stripper’s…
CSotD: Keeping’em honest
Al Goodwyn (Creators) is a very nice guy, and this is a well-intended New Year’s cartoon. I’m leading with it…
John M. Burns – RIP
British comic artist John M. Burns has passed away. John Michael Burns 1938 – December 29, 2023 From John Freeman:…
Tribune Content Freeze at GoComics
The New Year brought in a lack of updating of many Tribune Content Agency (TCA) strips at GoComics. Animal Crackers,…
Patrick McDonnell’s Pseudo-Sabbatical
The Mutts comic strip will go into rerun status for six months as Patrick McDonnell gets busy with some special…
CSotD: A New Year for Old Folks
Adam@Home (AMS) is in an optimistic mood as 2024 has launched, though not quite as much in a hurry as…
2023 Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed – Part Three: The Dearly Departed
This is an installment of 2023 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures –…
2023 Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed – Part Two: Detours and Deviations
This is an installment of 2023 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures– –…
2023 Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed – Part One: Debuts and Departures
This is an installment of 2023 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures –…
CSotD: 1924 Part Two – The Strips
(Banner by Johnny Walbridge, who, as noted yesterday, went on to be a Disney writer and animator.) We’ll start our…