That’s my Grandpa, at the head of the one-room classroom in Ironwood, Michigan, sometime in the first decade of the last century. I spent more than a quarter of a century working with schools myself, reporting on them, lecturing, doing teacher workshops and writing curricula, but I take my hat off to the people who […]
Ed Hall starts us off with this analysis of how Major League Baseball has learned to be fair to Black players and, ultimately, to Black people. But now the umpires are conferring, arguing over what seemed like a clear shot over the centerfield fence. To repeat an astonishing 1921 cartoon from the other day, […]
I’ll admit to spending a fair amount of time going through my memories, which is okay because I’ve got a fair amount of them, both significant and very, very trivial. This Bizarro (KFS) sparked one of the latter. My freshman year phys ed instructor in college was one of those profs who sets himself as […]
Juxtaposition of the Day (Bob Gorrell) (Tom Toro, June 2012) And let me add that those who pretend to study history talk about the riots of 1968 in terms of the tumultuous demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention that summer. Which were not riots except in the sense of “police riots,” stirred up by Mayor […]
I know, I know. Archduke Ferdinand and all that. A few cartoonists are already on it, but Prickly City is as close as we’re getting, because thank God, it’s Friday Funnies. Candorville is as political as we’ll get, as Darrin Bell wraps up this conversation about the Roaring 20s and the Current 20s. […]
Today’s Bottomliners coincidentally echoes some rumblings on social media, which I think started … … with this piece that graphic novelist Nate Powell posted about two weeks ago … … but which, in the last 48 hours or so, was joined by this article, which ran last May at Comics Beat, in which […]
A half-century ago, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was under way and all hell was breaking loose in America. It wasn’t just the violence and chaos in the streets, or the violence and chaos inside the convention hall, where Daley’s goons were beating up Dan Rather. It was more the unmasking of the divisions […]
Is Chicago becoming ‘center of comic universe’? – that’s what the Museum of Contemporary Art is trying to promote – along with their new exhibit “New Chicago Comics.” The exhibit focuses on Chicago artist Jeffrey Brown, Lilli Carré, Paul Hornschemeier, and Anders Nilsen. From the Sun Times: Chicago’s relative affordability, prominent art school and expanding […]