Among the comic strips that became public domain this year was Tim Tyler’s Luck by Lyman Young. From Don Markstein: Tim Tyler’s Luck, the most famous comic strip created by cartoonist Lyman Young, was well established at King Features Syndicate by the time his brother, Chic, also a cartoonist, got his own prominent King Features […]
Ninety years ago Lee Falk began his 65 years in comic stripping by writing and drawing the first two weeks of Mandrake the Magician from June 11 to June 23, 1934. After that he continued as the creator and writer of Mandrake (and later The Phantom) but turned the art duties over to Phil Davis. […]
The news of a new collection of Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies comic strip, which ran in The Village Voice from 1974 to 1995, sent me to the archives to find the first and last of the comic strip that for 20 years portrayed New York City life using quotes heard that both the cartoonist […]
Update: Gary and Lance returned for one final original cartoon to say goodbye to their fans on November 17. original November 12, 2023 article: From the Cleveland Plain Dealer comes news that Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich will come to an end at the end of this week: Not even a […]
Eighty-one years ago Walt Kelly introduced the world to Pogo Possum in a comic book. For the next five years Pogo and Albert the Alligator appeared in those Animal Comics and in a couple Four-Color specials. Then in late 1947 Pogo and friends entered into a kind of limbo. Walt Kelly continued contributing to The […]
Zack Mosley had been working for Dick Calkins on Buck Rogers and Skyroads for years. In 1933 he developed his own aviation strip and as part of an expanding of The Chicago Tribune and The New York Sunday News comics sections his strip, On The Wing, debuted as a Sunday only page on October 1, […]
Among its attractions and achievements Liverpool England is, according to Wikipedia, “an important cultural centre within the United Kingdom, incorporating music, performing arts, museums and art galleries, literature and nightlife amongst others.” Most notably it is where they first appeared. “They” being Curly Wee and Gussie Goose. above: the first and second installments of Curly […]
The Dayton Daily News a couple days ago: For more than three decades beginning in the mid-1970s, Dayton-born cartoonist Cathy Guisewite entertained millions with her comic strip “Cathy.” Her recent birthday caused us to go into the archives to share more about her story. The Daily Cartoonist has another reason as the Daily News story […]
Fred Basset has been in rerun status for nearly two months. A week after celebrating its 60th anniversary the comic strip went into rerun mode. According to a comment by “dv”: Fred Basset comics are reruns right now because the artist who has been drawing them since 1991, Michael Martin, has retired. The copyright holder, […]
Ella, Nathan Archer’s weekly comic strip for The Tallahassee Democrat, ended earlier this year. Nathan Archer had been a regular freelance cartoonist to The Tallahassee Democrat until this past Spring when Gannett decided to do away with editorial cartoons. It was also this past Spring that Nathan’s comic strip for that newspaper also ceased appearing […]
The Phantom and The Muppets from the 1980s; Paul Bunyan from the early 20th Century, comic strip lettering from later in the 1900s; and the first Peanuts TV animation. Hermes Press, the publisher of The Complete Phantom Dailies, missed an episode between Volume 29 and Volume 30. For those who didn’t keep track of our […]
After a continuous newspaper run of 102 years the Australian comic strip Ginger Meggs has ended. The strip began November 13, 1921 as a Sunday-only feature in The (Sydney Sunday) Sun titled Us Fellers. From the New South Wales State Library: The plot of the ‘Us Fellers’ strip had initially revolved round the activities of Gladsome Gladys, a sweet and pretty little […]
Original July 3rd post – This is a really late addition to our 2022 Departures list. Agnes by Tony Cochran has been in rerun status all this year, since January 1, 2023. Fans of the comic strip became aware of the lack of new material early this year and when “pschearer” inquired about the circumstances […]
Thirty years ago, mid-1993, a Flash Gordon story comes to an end. And with the end of the story comes the end of the daily syndicated Flash Gordon comic strip. So on July 3, 1993 the daily Flash Gordon by Thomas Warkentin and an Argentina Art Studio ended: (note: Argentina Art Studio = Andrés Klacik; […]
Linda Walter, cartoonist for the Susie Q. Smith comic panel and strip among others, died 14 years ago and since then she had been kept at a funeral home without getting a proper burial. From WTEN-TV: WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (NEWS10) — After going unclaimed for many years, the cremated remains of 1950s comic strip illustrator Linda […]