Current Comics – 75 Years After 1948
Of the two-score-minus-one comic strips Mike Peterson displayed from 1948 seven are still being syndicated with new content in 2023….
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CSotD: Thanksgiving 75 Years Ago
My goodness but 1948 was a fabulous year for cartoons! We were emerging from the war and feeling pretty good,…
Mutts Guard Dog Story Brings Reaction
From The New York Daily News via Yahoo: Brooklyn: As a lifelong animal lover who is always entertained by your…
Pre-Thanksgiving Giving – Today Featuring This Modern Bizarro World
Dan Piraro/Bizarro; Tom Tomorrow/This Modern World A message from Dan Piraro: IN JANUARY, 2024, CHANGES ARE COMING TO RANCHO BIZARRO…
CSotD: Hobbes, Rousseau and Benedict
Existential Comics, which just celebrated its tenth year, continues the birthday festivities with this contrast of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas…
Bill Lee – RIP
Cartoonist Bill Lee has passed away. William Saul (Bill) Lee November 15, 1938 – November 15, 2023 From the New…
CSotD: Backing away
A lot of things have changed in the past day or two, and I’m covering myself by starting with this…
Parsing Flash Gordon by Dan Schkade
Back in “the good old days” of the adventurous decade daily comic strips ran, more than less, four panels wide….
CSotD: Monday Merriment
This is apt to be a tough week for finding outstanding comics, given the flood of Roz-at-the-Pearly-Gates pieces already flooding…
The Michael Ramirez Ruckus Roundup – with a side of Steve Bell and Monte Wolverton
It has been a week or so since the brouhaha of the Michael Ramirez editorial cartoon that appeared in The…
CSotD: A Pause in Some of the Action
This morning’s news of a potential American-negotiated pause in the fighting in Gaza, plus a release of prisoners, puts a…
Mara Llave by Alex Segura & Nickolej Villiger – New Print Comic Strip from King Features
It was around this time last year when Comics Kingdom introduced us to the Alex Segura and Nickolej Villiger comic…
CSotD: The Way We Live Now
I’ve long since stopped featuring Santos/Pinocchio cartoons, since there were too many of them and they’d lost all impact. But…
William Joyce and Dahlov Ipcar Receive 2023 SoI Original Art Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Society of Illustrators announced William Joyce and Dahlov Ipcar winners of Lifetime Achievement Awards. The Lifetime Achievement Awards were…
Suffer The Little Children, Forbid Them Not – The Great British Colouring Book
Mike Peterson has mentioned the episode a few times, at the bottom of this column, at the top here, and…