Felix the Cat Comic Strip Centennial
Felix the Cat was created by Pat Sullivan in 1919 and became the animated superstar of the 1920s. The public’s…
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Felix the Cat was created by Pat Sullivan in 1919 and became the animated superstar of the 1920s. The public’s…
After a continuous newspaper run of 102 years the Australian comic strip Ginger Meggs has ended. The strip began November…
Scott Brown & Over 65; The Phantom 1980 & 2023; Asterix & Obelix and Goscinny & Uderzo and Fabcaro &…
Too much doom and gloom around, so let drop by reliable laff makers Bill Whitehead and Mark Parisi. So now…
Wednesday came and went without a Wayback installment because I am easily distrac… Anyway, to paraphrase Churchy LaFemme: Wayback Whensday…
For ten days, until August 17, 2023, the University Press of Mississippi is putting its books on sale at 40%…
In McCay, it was a combination of expansive imagination, multi-disciplinary eccentricity, and restless work ethic that set him apart. In…
Where I’m Coming From, The Buildings are Barking, Funny Things, Poor Helpless Comics!, The Talk, The He-Man Effect, You’re Not…
Ill health took a toll on Walt Kelly and Pogo. By the early 1970s friends and family were pitching in…
Brooke McEldowney celebrated 30 years of 9 Chickweed Lane comic strips in his usual artistic way (above). 9 Chickweed Lane…
Comics and illustration historian and publisher Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has passed away. “Jim was one of those rare figures in…
Scott Adams, Mario DeMarco, Jack Lindstrom, Jim Keefe, George Herriman, and the Warner Bros. cartoon studio of Chuck Jones, Michael…
Fred Basset by Alex Graham debuted in The Daily Mail on July 9, 1963.* From that Daily Mail newspaper celebrating…
Dale Messick and Brenda Starr, J.C. Leyendecker and the Arrow Collar, Rudolphe Töpffer and the first comic book. [F]or a…
Thirty years ago, mid-1993, a Flash Gordon story comes to an end. And with the end of the story comes…