Wayback Whensday – Back Cover Bios
Antonio Prohias, Morrie Turner, Franklin Osborne Alexander, and Carl Fallberg. Paperback biographies from a book’s back cover. Book Jacket Bios…
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Antonio Prohias, Morrie Turner, Franklin Osborne Alexander, and Carl Fallberg. Paperback biographies from a book’s back cover. Book Jacket Bios…
It’s always nice to get the family together for the holidays, and here they are before they went Hollywood. As…
The Cartoonist Rights organization has joined a growing list of groups and people boycotting X/Twitter: Effective immediately, CARTOONISTS RIGHTS will…
This week’s Wayback Whensday was put in motion by a Bob Harris comment to TDC earlier this week. The Wallace…
The big news in Public Domain 2024 is selected Mickey Mouse copyrights, whose animated shorts Steamboat Willie and The Gallopin’…
Today is the semiquincentennial of an act by patriots – or maybe by smugglers? Both? December 16, 1773: Americans disguised…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via the books’ publishers,though…
Cartoonist and biographer Bill Griffith has an obsession with Ernie Bushmiller and Nancy and Sluggo. In the past seventeen strips…
Harry McCracken in Scrappyland Preeminent Scrappy historian Harry McCracken returns, after a two year absence, to present a print off-shoot…
King Features archives have lost (never had?) the Field Syndicate proof sheet for this week’s Vintage Apartment 3-G. From The…
Ed Subitzky, Walt Handelsman, David Sipress, Roger Kastel, Ron Turner, Denis Kitchen, and more. Speaking of leftovers – here’s some…
Of the two-score-minus-one comic strips Mike Peterson displayed from 1948 seven are still being syndicated with new content in 2023….
My goodness but 1948 was a fabulous year for cartoons! We were emerging from the war and feeling pretty good,…
The origin of National Sadie Hawkins Day: How a comic strip that saw a man desperate to marry off his…
Seventy-five years ago, on November 7, 1948, the Sunday only Mitzi McCoy by illustrator Kreigh Collins debuted. Maurice Horn described…