Wayback Whensday
Blondie Boopadoop, Popeye, Longest-Running Comic Strips, Dennis the Menace, Harold Wilson. Blondie Bumstead, née Boopadoop? Before she married Dagwood Bumstead,…
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Newspaper Says Editorial Cartoonist a Must
[W]hen Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Sack decided to retire last year after four decades at [The Minneapolis Star Tribune], Opinion Editor…
Cartoon Problems at The Washington Post
Mike Rhode is a general comics scholar with a particular interest in Washington, D. C. cartoonists as revealed through his…
Sidney Harris = Senior Stripper
A belated Happy Birthday to cartoonist Sidney Harris who turned 90 years old last Monday. Having been born on May…
Hey Kids! Comics! May Books Be With You
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through…
Catch A Falling Star And…
Following are a few items saved for a rainy day – though here in California, except for the higher altitudes…
Barney & Clyde and Counterpoint
Weeks after finding out that Counterpoint Media had taken on Rudy Park we now discover, again months late, that Counterpoint…
Help Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive May 13
Every second Saturday in May, letter carriers in more than 10,000 cities and towns across America collect the goodness and…
Comic Strip News, Lists, and Such
Dick Tracy Hall of Famer Profiled HAMPTON — Local police officer Haley Magee, who was honored last year for rescuing…
Laconia Daily Sun Adds Comic Strip with Local Ties to Their Comic Pages
The Laconia Daily Sun celebrated the addition of a “new” comic strip to their paper with a banner headline on…
2023 National Headliner Award Winner is Clay Bennett
“Founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City, the National Headliner Awards program is one of the oldest…
Perri Hart – RIP
John Hart Studio gag writer-colorist-letterer Perri Hart has passed away. From the obituary: Perri Hart, 65, photographer, comedy writer, artist,…
Seventy-Five Years of Rex Morgan, M.D. – but the Rex of ’48 is not the Rex of ’23
Rex Morgan, M.D. by Nick Dallis (as Dal Curtis) and Marvin Bradley & Frank Edgington debuted May 10, 1948. Below…
Cartoonist News #216 (May, ’23)
featuring Ted Richards, Nate Neal, Duane Abel, Jenny Campbell, Tony Husband, and Ben Oda. The Comics Journal has a Ted…
Missed It: Loose Parts’ 25th
In the 1990s Dave Blazek and John Gilpin were working for the Philadelphia Inquirer when they thought it would be…