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CSotD: Thanksgiving, Half a Century Ago

Pogo starts us off on Thanksgiving, 1972, with a typically backhanded bit of thankfulness from Porkypine, their opposite characters being a high point of the strip.I hadn’t remembered that Charles Barsotti, far better known for his New Yorker cartoons, had a strip back then, but this particular episode is also a reminder that Earth Day […]

Kinda OT: Twitter and Good Ol’ Elon Musk

Unlike partner Mike Peterson and apparently the majority of people on Planet Earth I have never signed up for a Twitter account.(I thought I had and even have a password listed in my Book of Getting onto the Interwebs, but am not allowed into that world wide public square.)So as an outsider I have to […]

Comics Kingdom Flips Comment Hosting Service – UPDATED

UPDATE:Comics Kingdom has explained the change. There’s a crisis of toxicity online. The social platforms meant to bring us together are pushing us apart. It doesn’t have to be this way. Websites often have a love-hate relationship with their comment sections: on the one hand, they’re a sign of reader loyalty, a great way to […]

CSotD: Humor, richly larded with wise sayings

It’s not always easy or possible or productive to separate comics into either humor or politics, and Prickly City (AMS) has always been a political strip.In this case, we see the Republican party gain nominal control of the house only to have the Freedom Caucus preparing to play the temper-tantrum gridlocking roles Democrats have faced […]

Comics Pay Tribute on Charles Schulz Centennial

More than 80 comic strips and comic panels will use their November 26, 2022 releases to honor the 100th birthday of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts.From the AP story (via The Gazette): NEW YORK (AP) — Cartoonists across the nation are celebrating the 100th birthday of “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz as only […]

Tom Batiuk and Crankshaft Join Andrews McMeel

Andrews McMeel Syndication has announced that beginning on the first day of 2023 the Crankshaft comic strip by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis will join the AMS roster. © Mediagraphics, Inc.From the Andrews McMeel notice: Kansas City, MO (November 17, 2022) Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) will assume sales and distribution of Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk, […]

CSotD: My World Cup Runneth Under

Colombian cartoonist Raul Fernando Zuleta (Cartoon Movement) leads off today’s discussion of the 2022 World Cup: Qatar dangles money before FIFA and the TV networks, who in turn dangle money before the soccer clubs and TV viewers give the results to viewers, who don’t get so much as a taste of all that lovely baksheesh […]

Mud and Mirth: Marine Cartoonists in World War I

From The Minot Daily News: Minot native Cord Scott’s latest book is titled “The Mud and the Mirth: Marine Cartoonists in World War I.” Scott, a professor with the University of Maryland Global Campus based in Okinawa, Japan, said the book “discusses the use of cartoons drawn by Marines in the early part of the […]

GoComics Down “Due to…Cybersecurity Issues”

The Arizona Daily Star is sharing with their subscribers why the online comics are unavailable: As many subscribers have noticed, the online comics, puzzles and columns provided by the Andrews McMeel syndicate went offline early Saturday and remains offline today on our website. The digital service provider is currently experiencing technical difficulties and working to […]

CSotD: A Chance to Catch Up

Now only is GoComics still off-line (DD Degg offers some ways to find the missing comics), but Comics Kingdom has inadvertently offered its solidarity by hanging up and delivering yesterday’s comics, except for the Vintage strips, which are decades old but as up to date as they’re supposed to be.Fortunately, I’ve been holding a few […]

A Comics Kingdom Cavalcade Weekend

 Yesterday Bill Griffith thought about his boyhood ambitions.Today Bill used his talents to pay tribute to the passing of his wife, Diane Noomin. Susie and Ben portray Shoe, the put upon newspaper editor, in a factioned world.  Mara Llave: Keeper of Time, the new web only comic by Alex Segura and Nickolej Villiger, will be issued more […]

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