Staten Island Advance editorial cartoonist, reporter and columnist Tom Flannagan has passed away. Thomas R. (Tom) Flannagan March 31, 1932 – October 19, 2025 From the obituary: After graduating from Curtis High School, he completed correspondence courses with the Famous Artists School and Cartoonerama in pursuit of his passion for illustration. He joined the Advance […]
Today’s Bliss brought about a flashback. The kids were about 3 and 7 and we’d all been East to visit my family. This was before computerization and reserving your seats ahead of time, and somehow the airline broke up our party into three and one. We explained to someone or other that this wasn’t going […]
With Cathy by Cathy Guisewite; a Dick Tracy Halloween and cosplay; the quasquicentennial anniversary of The Weatherbird; a peek at the future of funnies and coming cartoonists; Dean Haspiel’s Comix Block comic strip section; and a brand new Gary Larson The Far Side paying tribute to Jane Goodall! “It was born out of that confusion” […]