CSotD: Monday Merriment
There are all sorts of important political issues to address, but there are also a lot of leftover Thanksgiving political…
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The Alphabeticomical Sunday Funnies
Barney and Clyde I like the slow creep of the color into the Sunday Funny partnered with the script. Of…
Comic Strip Rarities: Garfield
Strangely, for such a popular comic strip that appears in thousands of newspapers and has scores of book collections published,…
CSotD: Media Literacy on the Funny Pages
Andertoons (AMS) takes a daring step, making a joke based on the reader having a good vocabulary, but which is…
David Rowe Wins 10th Cartoonist of the Year Award
David Rowe, editorial cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review, has been voted Cartoonist of the Year by his fellow members…
Comic Strip News and Reviews
There are “third rails” that must be avoided in the world of comic strips. One of them is religion and…
Megan Herbert Named Behind the Lines’ Cartoonist of the Year
The Museum of Australian Democracy has named Megan Herbert as Cartoonist of the Year for its long-running annual Behind the…
CSotD: Bizarro President Takes the Reins
This is a “where to start” day, but we’ll lead off with Non Sequitur (AMS), because, while I don’t blame…
Second Helpings and Double Dipping
We’ll start with a pair of Thanksgiving family thoughts from Dennis the Menace and The Family Circus about the same…
Cartoonists Offer “My Best Laugh Story” 2
In 1924 King Features Syndicate offered newspapers an illustrated column by cartoonists in their stable. With Fay King, Jack Callahan,…
CSotD: The Morning After
When I first saw Nick Anderson (Tribune)‘s latest, I thought it was another slightly-late Thanksgiving piece, since it seemed half…
Cartoonists Offer “My Best Laugh Story” 1
In 1924 King Features Syndicate offered newspapers an illustrated column by cartoonists in their stable. With Jimmy Murphy, Billy DeBeck,…
CSotD: Holiday Humor
Monty’s right. Nobody’s reading the paper today, and it’s only in relatively recent years that they’ve even bothered to print…
Today’s Comic and Cartoon News Items
Soft-spoken cartoonist historian Tim Jackson, who died on Nov. 3 of complications from Lewy Body disease, was best known for…
Wayback Whensday: Calvin & Hobbes Press Kit, Snuffy Smith Intro, Rich Cartoonists
Back before Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson became the mega comic strip hit it was to become the first…