CSotD: A Literal Labor Day
Douglas Rodger saluted American workers with this Labor Day cartoon in the San Francisco News a century ago, but, in…
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CSotD: It’s Memorial Day Again and Again
John Darkow leads us off with both a reminder of what Memorial Day is about, and how it differs from…
CSotD: 1924 Part One — The Commentary
New Year’s cartoons are a mandatory piece each January 1, and Alfred Brewerton didn’t try for anything breakthrough with this…
CSotD: California, here I come!
As you are reading this, I am en route to the AAEC Convention in San Francisco, which I will report…
CSotD: Of Time and the Ribbers
The first Daylight Saving Time changeover was March 30, 1918, back when photographic set pieces like this, featuring small children…
CSotD: Trading New Years for Old
Happy New Year 1897 There is an old tradition in New Year’s cartoons of looking forward to a more…
CSotD: Post-holiday clean-up
I was going to avoid politics today, but I’m not sure this Candorville counts as politics so much as sociology….
CSotD: D-Day the Sixth of June
One of the keys to looking up contemporary coverage of historic moments is that you really have to look at…
Comic Strip of the Day: Point of Personal Privilege
One of these women is turning 94 today and the other is my great-granddaughter and thus her great-great-grandaughter. So, in…