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Anniversary Logos
Because of Facebook’s weird algorithms I didn’t see the Blondie at 95 poster for the comic strip’s September 8, 2025 95th anniversary celebration until just recently. The Phantom at 90 poster comes from the Chronicle Chamber website. The Phantom’s 90th anniversary will arrive on February 17, 2026.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review has updated their longest running American comic strips chart with the titles now included.
An argument could be made that Mary Worth started in 1934 with Apple Mary and Nancy evolved from Fritiz Ritz (1922) where Nancy was introduced in 1933. The chart above dates those strips from their title changes.
From the oldest to the newest.
McGREGOR, Texas (KWTX) – A retired local educator of 25 years says it’s a dream come true as his cartoons are being published in a local newspaper.
Jon Brown, 68, of Coryell County, is the artist behind a new feature in the McGregor Mirror in which Brown draws the cartoons, but the readers chose the caption.
Julie Hays at KWTX reports on Jon Brown getting his caption contest cartoon in the weekly McGregor Mirror.
Neither KWTX nor Madison Myers at KXXV say when exactly the feature began.
- Local artist Jon Brown is now publishing weekly cartoons in the McGregor Mirror, fulfilling a lifelong dream of becoming a cartoonist.
- Each cartoon invites community members to submit their own captions, with the winning entry featured in the paper the following week.
- The weekly winner also receives a free ice cream cone from Dairy Queen, adding a fun and tasty incentive for participation.
Timid Souls
A favourite comic strip called “The Timid Soul” was first published by New York World in 1924, and was syndicated in many other newspapers until its creator H.T. Webster died in 1952. The wimpy lead comic character was Caspar Milquetoast, who the cartoonist described as “the man who speaks softly and gets hit with a big stick”.
A letter to the editor of The (Kingston Jamaica) Gleaner recalls the old comic strip character Caspar Milquetoast and compares the political leaders of the world’s democratic nations to The Timid Soul.
Although the comic strip and many newspapers of that era have long faded into history, the term “milquetoast” has remained in the lexicon – as an adjective meaning feeble, insipid or bland. Looking at the dearth of political leadership in today’s world, so many elected to govern large countries and organisations can be described as extremely milquetoast…
Two AMP comics??
Ran across this ICv2 article about a Greatest American Hero comic book coming from AMP Comics. I guess they have been around for a year or so. What surprised me was the name of the company because when I read AMP comics I think of Andrews McMeel Publishing’s AMP Kids comic books which have been around much longer.
I realize that the word “amp” cannot be trademarked, but I would think that it would be disallowed by the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for the same company name to used in a competing situation like this.
College Comics
With the start of a new school year comes school newspapers with cartoons and comic strips. I can’t keep track of all the college cartoonists but this one by Avery Rita Silfer for the Daily Lobo struck a nerve.
Wednesday Comics
I’m used to seeing some of the King Features Weekly Service comic strips on Wednesdays when I seek out the Pickens County Courier comics page (above). We also get a day early look at the Sunday Funnies at the Stars and Stripes website. What came as a surprise today was getting a midweek look at a few of the forthcoming Sunday comics.
The Martinsburg Journal, a weekly from West Virginia, came up today with Sunday strips for September 14, 2025. About half are King Features comics that are available to subscribers to Comics Kingdom, but the others are Andrews McMeel strips that are seldom available before Saturday night.
Not Comic Strips
Jeff Koterba pays homage to a classic Charles Addams cartoon today.
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