Wayback Whensday: Walt Kelly’s Can’t & No!
Walt Kelly’s Can’t Record Storybook Cover and Story Page Original Art Group of 28 (1969) Heritage Auctions has a preview…
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Guard Dog Book and Mutts’ 30th Year
Yesterday saw the release of Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story and tomorrow will be the 30th anniversary of…
Miss Cellany – Still On Weekend Watch
1814 Surrender of Alexandria, Amtrak across America, Page One-above the fold Cartoonist Profile, Letterer Appreciation Day, Cartoonists for ,la. Prominent…
CSotD: A Literal Labor Day
Douglas Rodger saluted American workers with this Labor Day cartoon in the San Francisco News a century ago, but, in…
Peanuts and Charles Schulz Rarities
We start not with Peanuts but Sparky’s other comic It’s Only A Game. A dozen years ago Nat Gertler wrote…
Wayback Whensday – There and Back Again
But we’ll start with someone not so enamored of the golden oldies. A letter writer to The (Boulder, Colo.) Daily…
Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide Has Moved
The premiere online destination for aficionados of American newspaper comic strip history has a new home: Hi and welcome to…
What is the first American graphic novel?
From Hal Johnson: I want to find the first American graphic novel—I say American simply because I know very little…
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
I don’t often put rerun comic strips in my roundups, but this appreciation of Billy DeBeck by Richard Thompson is…
Hey Kids! Comics! An August Supplement – British Newspaper Strips
British Newspaper Strips: A Contextual History by Adam Twycross This book explores the history and development of the British daily…
Hey Kids! Comics! For Your School Library
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2024 release. Images and links from a variety of…
Through the Past Cartoonly
Harold and the Purple Crayon, 1960s Popeye cartoons, 1972 Sergio Aragonés poster, Little Orphan Annie and Harold Gray, 2024 San…
Wayback Whensday: Rick O’Shay & Hipshot
David Hofstedt for Cowboys & Indians remembers Rick O’Shay and Stan Lynde. The year Rick O’Shay debuted there were more…
2024 Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award to Safiyya Hosein and Jonathan Najarian
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research…
A Classic’s Centennial: Little Orphan Annie
One hundred years ago in the pages of The New York Daily News … The world, or New York anyway,…