On a comics page long ago in a newspaper world far away from today’s practice adventure lived. At times during the 1930s, ’40s, and into the ’50s adventure strips outnumbered the “comic” strips. Now we are hard pressed to find even one on a newspaper’s comics page.Outis Funetti mourns the loss of adventure strips on […]
With First Amendment Essay and Editorial Cartoon Contest young winners; half a billion views for animated feature K Pop Demon Hunters; Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra on the cover of the 2026 New Yorker wall calendar; Scott Adams waiting for his “come to Jesus” moment; and praise for a retiring cartoonist Walt Handelsman.2025 WNAF Editorial […]
Jennings introduces today’s theme with what should be an obvious point, though perhaps it takes someone from outside the US (He’s British) to ask the question: Why all the surprise?To be fair, this is how history works. There have been all sorts of dubious figures who have come to power, but nobody who suddenly, like […]