By now regular readers of The Daily Cartoonist are aware of my obsession with comic strip title panels. So it should come as no surprise that my biggest note about today’s Sunday comics pages is the new look Blondie! This is a major change in the look of the Blondie Sunday strip since its change […]
Pogo, Scopes, BodéWe’ll Not Meet His Like AgainFifty years ago, on July 20, 1975, 21 months after Walt Kelly died, Pogo ended. That same day Bill Vaughan, a contributor to the comic strip in its last couple of years, said goodbye: Religion v. ScienceOne hundred years ago tomorrow The Scopes Monkey Trial was decided. The […]
Sorensen is right. We get righteously upset about cruelty and stupidity and dishonesty … and then the fire dies down and it all becomes normal.The challenge we face as we slip into fascism is maintaining some level of outrage. If nothing else, our grandchildren will wonder how we could sit back and just watch it […]