CSotD: A Chance to Catch Up

Now only is GoComics still off-line (DD Degg offers some ways to find the missing comics), but Comics Kingdom has inadvertently offered its solidarity by hanging up and delivering yesterday’s comics, except for the Vintage strips, which are decades old but as up to date as they’re supposed to be. Fortunately, I’ve been holding a…

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SDCC 2022 Eisner Award Winners

The Eisner Awards were handed out Friday night at the San Diego Comic Con. Below are a select few with categories and winners in bold. Best Short Story“Funeral in Foam,” by Casey Gilly and Raina Telgemeier, in You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife (Iron Circus)“Generations,” by Daniel Warren Johnson, in Superman: Red & Blue…

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Mama’s Sunday Funnies

The Walker Bros. and Eric Reaves gives us some background in Hi and Lois. © King Features Syndicate (Love the opening butterfly panel.)   When the Vintage Editor and the Contemporary Editor don’t confer. Today’s Vintage Tiger: and today’s currently syndicated (tho still a rerun) Tiger:  Tiger © King Features Syndicate   Synchronicity?  Foxtrot ©…

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CSotD: Comic Relief

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…

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Cartoonists Chronicles 20-11-19

Accounts of comic/cartoon history that we stumbled on this past week. Eustace Tilley: Origins of an Icon Alex Jay’s short pictorial…     leads us to R. C. Harvey’s 2017 True History of Eustace Tilley essay at The Comics Journal. Eustace Tilley is the name given to the 19th century boulevardier languidly inspecting a passing…

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