October and November of 1936 saw dozens of newspapers print six daily format comic strips relating some catastrophes of the past in America and how the Red Cross was there to ease the suffering. And that’s about as much is known. The newspapers printed the strips with no introduction of any kind, nor with any […]
Flo’s Diner in Non Sequitur (AMS) had a new customer this past week, one who could rival Captain Eddie in the slinging of entertaining baloney. The arc concluded Saturday with, as Eddie said, a chilling bit of reality.It’s no secret that the Orwellian-named “Freedom Caucus” has control of the House, but it helps to have […]
When Joe Wos heard that his MazeToon runs side-by-side with Jeff Keane’s The Family Circus in Victoria he devised a panel that works everywhere but really stands out on the comics page of The Times Colonist. When Joe told Jeff of his intention Jeff informed Joe that Bil Keane had done something similar almost 80 […]
King Features regularly issues a directory for its syndicated offerings, but this week they surprised us by putting up a directory for their King Features Weekly Service (KFWS) branch. Let’s take a look at the KFWS listing for comic offerings (not in alphabetical order): Tiger Flash Gordon Stan Smith Tennis (aka Stan Smith’s Tennis Class) […]
Well, Arlo (AMS), the problem is that you’re celebrating the wrong saint. If you wait two days, you can have corned beef and cabbage on your St. Joseph’s Table at a heavily discounted price.Best of all, Festa di San Giuseppe falls on a Sunday this year, so you don’t need a dispensation to have meat […]
Percy Crosby was born in 1891 and was working and cartooning for newspapers before he was out of his teens. His twenties saw him succeed in contributing cartoons and comic strips to magazines and newspapers. WWI interrupted the career. After The War to End All Wars Crosby reestablished himself as a cartoonist and illustrator. One […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. We begin our March list of books with one we missed in February. UVA Press is happy to announce the publication of a […]
Fourteen months after Joe Wos switched his MazeToons from Creators to King Features the panel has finally been added to Comics Kingdom. (Will it take as long for Andrews McMeel to add Mike Peters’ editoons to GoComics?) The feature was added Monday but the archive goes back to January 2022 when Joe switched syndicates. Set […]
We’ll start the day with a pair of cartoons about a topic I’m not going to cover yet, though I did touch on SVB’s collapse the other day.At the moment, we’ve got people who should understand this stuff saying that SVB’s fall is because of changes in the Dodd-Frank law, and Barney Frank saying he […]
Today’s headline is an old joke; the answer is in Ann Telnaes‘ cartoon.The stork ought to still scare them, because, as Telnaes points out, we’re heading back to the pre-Roe days when a pregnant woman’s choice was between giving birth or possible death, and I say that as someone old enough to have been a […]
Famed British comic strip and gag cartoonist Bill Tidy has passed away. William Edward (Bill) Tidy, MBE October 9, 1933 – March 11, 2023 The death of Bill Tidy, who some call “The World’s Greatest Cartoonist” and “UK’s Best-Loved Cartoonist,” is being reported by newspapers throughout Great Britain including The Daily Mail and The Guardian. […]
Dilbert by Scott Adams has ended its syndicated newspaper run. Dilbert debuted in 1989. It is unknown if the Sunday April 16, 1989 issue appeared in any newspapers, but a few newspapers did begin showing the strip on their comics pages on Monday April 17, 1989. While enduring the circumstances of being middle management Scott […]
I’m with Elliott, or, as Napoleon once remarked to Marshal Bernadotte, “Je ne donne pas une merde.” Or words to that effect.I have one clock in the house that needs to be reset, plus the one in the car. The others mostly take care of themselves. I never set the ones on the oven and […]
Cartoonist Joseph Bergeron of New Hampshire has placed his First Date comic strip in the Eagle Times: CLAREMONT — Local cartoonist Joseph Bergeron has made his print debut within the pages of the Eagle Times with the comic strip ‘First Date.’ ‘First Date’ is Bergeron’s first published comic strip, making it an Eagle Times exclusive. […]
I will confess I haven’t seen any of the movies up for Oscars tomorrow night, but I will declare Drew Sheneman’s piece to be Best Picture, not of the year but of the week, because comedies don’t get honored often enough and, after a few weeks of sorting through increasingly repetitive cartoons about drag queens […]