The Ron Goulart funeral home obituary is up. Mr. Goulart who was born in Berkeley, California was a widely recognized science fiction and mystery writer as well as a comics historian. This seems a good time for a bibliography of Ron’s comics and pulp history books. Cheap Thrills (1972) An Informal History of the Pulp Magazine (1973) […]
I had an odd response to yesterday’s Non Sequitur (AMS) yesterday, or possibly the brilliant inspiration for some kind of dystopian speculative fiction.I suspect the Venn diagram of people who believe in crypto and people who distrust the government has a rather large intersection, given that the appeal of Bitcoins and such appears to be […]
There’s a new face in the GoComics family—five new faces, in fact! Last week, we welcomed fan-favorite Baby Blues to the site, who brought with it all growing pains of the MacPherson family—Darryl, Wanda, Zoe, Hammie, and Wren. The GoComics Blog put up an interview with Baby Blues creators Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman. How […]
Ozark Ike by Ray Gotto 1948 Dick Tracy by Chester Gould 1936 Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff 1934 Jungle Jim by Alex Raymond 1939 Mary Perkins On Stage by Leonard Starr 1957 Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray 1957 Captain Easy by Roy Crane 1941 Casey Ruggles by Warren Tufts 1951 Prince Valiant by Harold Foster 1962 Terry and the Pirates (and […]
From Georgia Dunn earlier this month: I have some very sad news to share, Lupin died this morning. It was fast, and he had a great few weeks before today. He had been in good spirits and acting like his old self. He was such a terrific good bad great cat, and I will […]
Sherman’s Lagoon (KFS) plays with a fairly well-known saying, that fish don’t understand the concept of being “wet” because they live in water. It’s applicable to all sorts of things people don’t seem to get for having failed to ever step outside their own experience.Some people are lucky enough to live lives that don’t allow […]
Wishing Jenny Campbell blue skies. © Jenny CampbellWas aware of the Christmas Covid problems Jenny had, but nothing of today’s Flo & Friends topic (if it means what I think). What could make an All-American Family turn on Stephan Pastis?© Stephan Pastis (or maybe Bil Keane Inc?)Read the disgusting Pearls Before Swine before we throw it on […]
Monty (AMS) has been having various misadventures in the Arctic, and here, as noted in that fourth panel, he’s having his leg pulled by the locals.Do the natives have 50 words for snow? According to this, yes but also no, since, to begin with, there’s more than one Eskimo/Aleut language and 50 was a rough […]
A Comic Chronicles EditionSo much comics history. IF FAY KING HADN’T MARRIED A PRIZE FIGHTER named “Battling” Nelson, we’d know almost nothing about her life. We know her opinions about the manners and mores of the twenties and thirties from her comic strips, cartoons and columns. And we have an inkling of what she looked […]
My initial response to Clay Bennett (CTFP)’s cartoon is not “maybe it’s me” but “yeah, it’s definitely me.”I was thinking that because you can declare an Ace to be 1, he still had a straight flush, J-Q-K-1-2. I’m less embarrassed by thinking a flush could — how you say? — go around the corner, than […]
Ginger Snappish offers a primer on comic lettering. Part 2 of The Art of Lettering Comics. Other blogs about typography and lettering…from Todd Klein and Alex Jay.
Comics Kingdom bailed out on the last segment of the current Vintage Radio Patrol story. Here’s what you missed:
Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia will debut in newspapers on March 28, June 27, 2022.The Elizabethtown (Ky) News-Enterprise, in a front page above the fold story, revealed the date. Elizabethtown native Tauhid Bondia soon will be making readers across the country chuckle. His daily humor comic, Crabgrass, about two best friends named Kevin and Myles, is […]
Ron Goulart died on the morning of January 14th, 2022. It was the day after his birthday: an irony wrapped in a riddle strangled by a conundrum. Actually the date was merely a coincidence. No, it was an irrelevant fact. I am struggling with a way to begin this, fooling myself that I can “open” […]
Cartoon Exhibit[E]ditorial cartoons [will be] exhibited at the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery beginning Wednesday, January 26 through Saturday, February 26. The Downtown Gallery exhibit is called Point of View: Regional Editorial Cartoons. This exhibition is in conjunction with A Serious Look at the Funnies, an exhibition at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture […]