Nat Gertler and About Comics have reissued the 1924 Webster’s Bridge book, originally published by Frederick A. Stokes.Bleeding Cool has more information about the new edition of Webster’s Bridge.Nat Gertler must be a bridge fan, as Bleeding Cool notes, “This book is just the latest in a series of books of bridge humor from About […]
Tallahassee Democrat political cartoonist Nathan Archer has created a comic strip for the paper.Ella by Nathan Archer January 3, 2020 – weekly strip Tallahassee Democrat Sez Nathan:The name is no coincidence. My feathered female protagonist is indeed named after Tallahassee’s own Midtown attraction, a favorite of mine since I moved here almost 20 years ago. Ella […]
I know, I know. Archduke Ferdinand and all that. A few cartoonists are already on it, but Prickly City is as close as we’re getting, because thank God, it’s Friday Funnies. Candorville is as political as we’ll get, as Darrin Bell wraps up this conversation about the Roaring 20s and the Current 20s. Lemont is absolutely right, […]
Jen Sorensen passes on some sad news:Though she doesn’t identify the paper I believe it was one of the Southland Publishing weeklies, which last year was purchased by the Arizona-based Times Media Group.“The Southland publications have always been special in their connection with the communities they serve,” [Steve Strickbine, president of Times Media Group] added. […]
Balzac et Grandville: Une Fantaisie Mordante or Balzac and Grandville: (The Google Translation)The first illustrated newspapers of the beginning of the 19th century gave a lot of space to the engravings and to the commentaries which accompany them. In newsrooms, illustrators and editors rub shoulders. This is how Jean-Ignace Gérard dit Grandville and Honoré de […]
National Football League quarterback and coach Sam Wyche has passed away.Samuel David (Sam) Wyche January 5, 1945 – January 2, 2020Cincinnati Enquirer photo tribute.From the Cincinnati Enquirer of two years ago: …Wyche had been working on developing the no-huddle offense, which revolutionized the NFL and gave the Bengals an offensive edge over nearly every opponent. […]
This is an installment of 2019 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2019 Debuts These comics began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2019 PRAIRIE POTHOLE by John Porcellino January 10, 2019 – May 2, […]
This is an installment of 2019 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2019 Departures These comics ceased production for U. S. newspapers in 2019 ROSY’S DINER Charlie Daniel November(?), 2006 – February 3. 2019 weekly […]
This is an installment of 2019 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2019 – The Dearly Departed These U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2019. BATTON A. LASH [nee:MARANGI] October 29, 1953 – […]
This is an installment of 2019 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1:Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2019 Detours/Deviations Detailing some changes in syndicated U. S. newspaper comics in 2019. ALLEY OOP After four months of reruns following The Benders’ 2018 […]
Print and film classics from 1924 become public domain on January 1, 2020.Some famous comic strips which were created in 1924 finally have their debut year now p.d. Boots and Her Buddies first appeared on February 18, 1924 from the NEA Service. So there is most of the year available there. Here is a very […]
The news of John Lewis’s pancreatic cancer inspires this Mike Luckovich cartoon saluting cancer survivors and hoping he’s one of them.So say we all.First thing I learned when I was diagnosed a little over three years ago was that everybody’s cancer is different. Not only is every type of cancer different, but everybody’s particular experience […]
I’ve recently mentioned my past covering shopping malls, but I hadn’t mentioned “category killers,” a term from that corner of retail business.A category killer is a store that makes it pointless to add other stores in that category. For instance, if you lease to Dick’s Sporting Goods, there’s no point in a smaller sports store […]
Is it my imagination, or has Peter Guren developed quite a sense of humor lately? Is it my imagination, or does Thomas Yeates just get better every week? Hi and Lois dream the impossible dream (getting political?) Today’s Heart of the City and today’s Mutts and today’s Mary Worth Amelia Earhart? Jimmy Hoffa? The Lost […]
Joan Crosby Tibbetts, daughter of Percy Crosby, has passed away.Joan Crosby Tibbetts September 21, 1932 – October 26, 2019 From Joan’s Linkedin page: Owner, Skippy, Inc., Feb 1968 – Present 51 years 11 months primary job as court-appointed administrator of Percy Crosby Estate (my father), involving licensing of his famous SKIPPY character; policing and enforcing trademark/copyright infringements; […]