Way back one hundred years ago The Los Angeles Times produced a Sunday supplement for and by younger readers it called The Junior Times. That entertainment and educational section ran from July 23, 1922 – July 15, 1934 and our interest in it is that it ran comics by aspiring cartoonists. One such Junior Times […]
The boys are prepubescent, but their exact age is unclear, as is their relationship to each other … Are they twin brothers? Friends? The same kid in alternate universes? Or is it more of a Jekyll-and-Hyde situation? It doesn’t really matter. Goofus and Gallant are symbols more than characters. In every issue, they play out […]
(Or Wednesday. Whatever. I’m retired; I don’t have to know that stuff anymore.)Well, then, we’re making progress! This sequence in Pros and Cons (KFS) cracked me up in large part because I only dipped a toe into therapy during our divorce, and that had more to do with setting up visitation and so forth. Which […]
‘Red and Rover’ cartoonist, based in Edmonds, looks back on careerBrian Basset has drawn newspaper comic strips for decades. Now he’s preparing for the next phase of his career. If you are like me the Everett Herald headline and subhed shrieks that Brian Basset is retiring. Rest assured that is not the case … not […]
Fiona Kataukas makes what I think is the best overall assessment of what happened, what’s happening and what’s about to happen in Russia. And Belarus. And thus Ukraine. And thus Europe and NATO and our own 2024 elections, but let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves.As the fortune teller tells us, everybody can guess […]
Charles Schulz’s Art Studio For Sale A tranquil midcentury modern home in Sebastopol used as an art studio by Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz to draw his nationally syndicated comic strips hit the market Friday, June 23, for $3.95 million, according to Coldwell Banker Realty. The home, built in 1966, rests on 7.2 acres of […]
Mutt and Jeff, recognized as the first regularly published daily comic strip >see Allan Hotz’s comment below<, ended after 75 years on June 26, 1983. Above are the last daily (June 25, 1983) and the last Sunday (June 26, 1983) strips from the Charlotte Observer which carried the strip to the end, by then being […]
The Duplex (AMS) nearly gets the Accidental Timing Award, and I say “nearly” because, first of all, Putin would be way over-matched and I’m sure would refuse to compete, and, second, as I’m writing this at 5:25 EDT (and editing at 7:42), we can’t find either of them.My theory is that they’ve set off together […]
Bill Griffith looks forward to reminiscing in Zippy the Pinhead. The strip ends with a promising future where “comics-on-paper” make a vinyl-like comeback to popularity. Time Passages Synchronicity In a wonderful multi-panel juxtaposition we see time, in a matter of hours, pass in Wallace the Brave; while time, taking years, also passes in Six Chix. […]
In such troubled times, a good laugh is of great value, and Fiona Katauskas gives up on ruminating over the true meaning of woke and the false meanings of woke and settles, instead, on the utter meaninglessness with which the dorks have endowed it.And the flatulent pride with which they parade their ignorance.This is not […]
On Wednesday The Quad City Times published a cartoon by Leo Kelly taking a swipe at MAGA racism, but the cartoon invoked a Simpsons character whose name has become offensive to many and so the tables were turned with the newspaper and the cartoonist being accused of racism.The cartoon came to presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s […]
This is a “Where do I begin?” day, because I have a file full of worthwhile cartoons, including a new one by Lee Judge (KFS).In his latest substack, Kareem admits that, when he was young and naive, he thought voters were eager to learn about issues and make intelligent choices. But as he grew older, […]
Continuing Heritage Auction 7340 into day two. Among those offered here was a Prince Valiant Sunday by Hal Foster (#1092, January 12, 1958) that went for #24,000.00 and a how-to-draw-the-human-body-the-Hogarth-way Tarzan Sunday page by Burne Hogarth (#868, October 26, 1947) that cost $20,400.00. Two George Herriman Krazy Kat Sundays. The March 28, 1920 one features […]
Spectickles by Bill Abbott is one example of many comics taking a beating due to large newspaper owners demanding all the papers in their group run a unified comics page. When Lee Enterprises ordered all their newspapers to run the same ten comics last September the Spectickles panel was forced out of The Buffalo News, […]
Patrick Blower isn’t the only one roped in by an international fraud.The notion that kids were “identifying” as animals began with an intentional lie in this country some years ago and, when it resurfaced last summer, it was almost immediately slapped down as transphobic propaganda. There were no kids who thought they were cats, there […]