Zits Original Art Auction January 4, 2024
Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman have selected 103 pieces from their 26-year-old, award-winning strip Zits for Heritage Auctions’ sale on…
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Wayback Whensday – Back Cover Bios
Antonio Prohias, Morrie Turner, Franklin Osborne Alexander, and Carl Fallberg. Paperback biographies from a book’s back cover. Book Jacket Bios…
CSotD: Corrections, Clarifications & Road Apples
This could have been a short day for me, because Jen Sorensen has said everything I have on my mind….
Comic Characters and Cartoonists
Snoopy, Olive (Emi Burdge) & Popeye (Randy Milholland), Dilbert and Scott Adams, Noah Voelker, Jason Chatfield, and Thomas May. It’s…
CSotD: The Wren, The Park and Other Things
The Dogs of C Kennel (Creators) are experiencing a temporary lull, but we’re not. However, St. Stephen’s Day is, granted,…
The Beginning of the End of the Year Brings Editorial Cartoon Picks from the Year 2023
The end of the year always brings editorial cartoonists and newspapers selecting cartoons from the past year to present as…
CSotD: Have a Retro Christmas
It’s always nice to get the family together for the holidays, and here they are before they went Hollywood. As…
The Sunday Funnies Revisit “A Visit…”
Yesterday was the 200th anniversary of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” and today, the day before Christmas 2023, a number…
Bouquets and Brickbats – Letters to Editors
The Washington Post recently published a few letters about some cartoons from mid-December. Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez came in for…
CSotD: On the Eve
Ivan Turgenev’s On the Eve is one of my favorite novels, but it bombed in Russia when it was published…
A Bicentennial Visit From St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas visits George Scarbo, Walt Kelly, Bill Elder, Jim Davis, and, because you were nice, Walt Kelly again. ‘Twas…
CSotD: 366 days, not just 12
Jack Ohman plays with the Nativity story to illustrate the plight of the poor and homeless in San Francisco. It’s…
Cartoonist Natalie Brown Gets No Respect
In its online edition of the Indiana Prairie Farmer section Farm Progress ran a story by Tom J. Bechman about…
TDC – The Intoonational Edition
The Cartoonist Rights organization has joined a growing list of groups and people boycotting X/Twitter: Effective immediately, CARTOONISTS RIGHTS will…
CSotD: Friday Follies
We’ll start the day with a serious piece of folly before we get into the fun stuff. Guy Badeaux reports…