He is to Popeye… what Ming is to Flash Gordon.… what Bull Dawson is to Captain Easy.… what Susie is to Calvin.And though he was well-known to the sailor man,and had been skulking around the ship for a week, we first met him 90 years ago today. The rest of the week: © King Features SyndicateThe […]
The Courier Mail has announced the newspaper will no [longer] print comic strips, much to the dismay of the industry. In a small article in the paper today, the Courier Mail said the decision was based on “extensive research into changing readership habits”. Australian Cartoonists Association president Cathy Wilcox said she hoped dismayed readers spoke […]
Ann Telnaes asks a simple question, amid the continuing downpour of corgis and weeping guardsmen and crowns being passed around and royal hats and additional maudlin tributes to someone else’s dead monarch.The answer, of course, is that, yes, we did, and, as noted here previously, we continued for nearly 150 years to view England and […]