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 Ricardo Caté Cartooning Without Reservations Without Reservations is a daily comic in the Santa Fe New Mexican.  Creator Ricardo Caté’s subject material comes from his experience but also deals with political themes.Caté said his overall goal is to keep expanding his comic and be in more newspapers. “I want to make this nationwide,” he said. […]

Excerpts from Bruce Jenkins’ San Francisco Chronicle obituary: Willie McCovey was the gentleman superstar, often described as a man without enemies. McCovey, who died at the age of 80 on Wednesday afternoon, was among the classiest athletes ever to grace the Bay Area. Humble and soft-spoken, always clearly grateful of the life he was able […]

Bob Mankoff is about to launch Cartoon Collections, a new website which will house Mankoff pieces and other material from famed sources including The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, National Lampoon and many more.Cartoon Collection will be the largest digital collection of licenseable cartoons in the world.  Bob Mankoff on his new concern versus Cartoon Bank, which […]

Earlier today Mike Peterson presented us with the origins of The Great Pumpkin.Linus and The Great Pumpkin was an annual event in the Peanuts comic strip that became a perennial favorite as an animated TV special.And while Garfield’s Halloween Adventure tried to compete as a television tradition, it never rose to the beloved status of […]

In 1948 Collier’s started a brief series of comic strip cartoonists presenting their life story to the magazine’s readers. The individual entries occupied one three column page, one column of text with the other two columns filled with autobiographical comic strips. Presented below are the comics. (Clicking on the images and then clicking again should […]

 For the latest horror Rob Rogers alludes to another place, another time – days short of 80 years ago.Kristallnacht was not the beginning nor the end of the troubles then, and this is not the start or, unfortunately, the last we will see of such atrocities now.“I was a little hesitant to compare this violence […]

 Alfred G. Caplin was riding high with his success on the Joe Palooka comic strip and creating the hillbilly character Big Leviticus (a claim disputed by Ham Fisher) when he decided he could become a big-time cartoonist instead of a low paid assistant.And so he did – with Li’l Abner. above: the first Li’l Abner […]

 With the October 28, 2018 Sunday strip Henry ceases its King Features syndicated run.The daily strip ended with the Saturday October 27, 2018 issue. Henry by Carl Anderson first appeared as a (mostly) panel in the Saturday Evening Post issue of March 19, 1932 and ran there until February 2, 1935.King Features and Carl Anderson converted […]

 Good Stories for Children – Illustrations From 1902 to 1905 Walt McDougall provided art for his Sunday newspaper page of children’s stories.Monster Brains presents the more disturbing of the illustrations.John Adcock provides a bit of history.    The Gay ThirtiesA treasure trove of slice-of-life panels by Milton Caniff and Hank Barrow from The Great Depression.    Cats and Raccoons […]

 James Bond and Playboy Playboy continues its slow return to the glory days when cartoons and comics were a major part of the magazine’s content. The November-December 2018 issue contains a six page exclusive about the origin of 007.Dynamite Entertainment and Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. announced today that the latest James Bond series, James Bond […]

A Halloween Cartoon ListSteve Stanchfield, via Cartoon Research, presents a list of seasonal animated cartoons:Since it’s almost Halloween, I’ll continue the tradition of posting some favorite Halloween films. Here’s the ones that are on my must watch list (again) for this year. Some of these will very likely be projected for the kids on Halloween […]

 #5 – Linus Made Security Blankets Acceptable.  As a new exhibit [Good Grief, Charlie Brown] celebrates its eternal appeal,William Cook reveals some surprising facts about Charlie Brown, Snoopy and friends. post script relating to the above mentioned exhibition and post: Alexandra Fraser visits the Sonoma home of Charles Schulz. above: a Snoopy Burger at the Warm Puppy […]

Disney Legend Floyd Norman is interviewed by legendary Disney historian Jim Korkis about Floyd’s various associations with Disney icon Mickey Mouse. The Mickey Mouse comic strip ran from 1930 to 1995. For the last dozen years or so of the comic strip it was written and laid out by Floyd.I am delighted that, while it touches […]

 King Features has joined forces with PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center to raise awareness and help prevent bullying. While many schools and organizations participate by wearing orange today, a number of [KFS] cartoonists created special comic strips to highlight bullying prevention and awareness.October 24 is Unity Day and a number of King Features Syndicate comic […]