The familiar Flo and Friends have been a part of Jenny Campbell‘s life for over twenty years, less familiar to many of us is her other friends at Rescue Village, also a 20+ year affair. That changes with the publication of a new book. As Rescue Village informs us: For more than two decades, Jenny […]

Ivan Ehlers reminds me of how lucky I am to have been getting my Internet from a 4G connection rather than cable for the past two years. Apparently, since I get my signal from towers rather than a cable head end, Internet advertisers have no idea where I live, and the preponderance of ads I […]

Comics historian Maurice Horn has passed away. A death notice for famed comics historian Maurice Horn has been discovered. Maurice Horn became the preeminent comics historian of the 1960s through the 1980s with his books. It was Maurice Horn’s massive World Encyclopedia of Comics in 1976 that put his name front and center. Though not […]

Bruce MacKinnon’s cartoon would be funny if the guy in it were some obscure goofball prattling away about his own personal, paranoid fantasies in the corner of a neighborhood tavern at three in the afternoon.It’s not nearly so funny when the goofball is a former President of the United States with a significant following among […]

In the last year of Dan O’Neill’s Odd Bodkins for Chronicle Features O’Neill had met Bobby London and others who would make up the famous Air Pirates. According to Brian Doherty in DIrty Pictures Bobby had been “working with O’Neill on the final months of Odd Bodkins,” which would be the late Summer and Fall […]

The Australian Cartoonists Association has uploaded a dozen or so recent “issuus” of their Inkspot magazine quintupling the Inkspots and Yearbooks available, bringing the archive up to the Spring/Summer 2023 edition. Hours of fun and information here. Now if the National Cartoonists Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists would follow suit.

Jonesy posted this for Pet Day, which was yesterday, and it made me chuckle despite how tired I am of dogs drinking out of toilets, which was a fresh concept when Mike Peters had Grimm do it over 30 years ago or so. I’m not looking it up, but I interviewed him in 1992 and […]

Like Leslie Stahl after her MTG interview, I have been chastised for linking this article out to comics fans without any remarks as to some of the wayward assertions made by the author. After the original post I have included some fact-checking. Original April 9, 2023 post:What do Dilbert by Scott Adams, Non Sequitur by […]

Tom Tomorrow packs a lot into six panels here. There is, by the way, no Chinese curse of “May you live in interesting times,” and people who quote alleged Chinese, African or Native American wisdom without sourcing it should be horsewhipped, but that’s a rant for another day.Fact is, we’re living in times that future […]

Beloved cartoonist Al Jaffee has passed away. From The Washington Post: Al Jaffee, the ingenious Mad magazine illustrator who was as adept at creating wacky cartoon gags as he was at producing caustic social commentary, and whose drawings, he cheerfully suggested, helped corrupt the minds of generations of young Americans, died April 10 at a […]

Brian Hibbs at Comics Beat does a deep dive into the 2022 NPD Book Scan Report. Ludicrously, this is the twentieth annual report of something that is hard to exactly perceive and understand: the size and shape of the sales of graphic novels and trade paperbacks through the book store market, as seen through the […]

Stephen Collins wrote a cheerful alternative holiday cartoon, starring the pagan goddess Eostre, who may or may not have inspired many of our Easter traditions, as this research into the story suggests.That article traces Eostre back to a mention by the Venerable Bede, which was picked up by a trusting Jacob Grimm, and then embroidered […]

Joe Cool Type CoolFrom NBC News: The American Red Cross partnered with the popular Peanuts cartoon brand to create an exclusive T-shirt featuring Snoopy for people donating blood. Now, the shirt is going viral on TikTok and first-time blood donors are showing up to get their hands on the exclusive merch. The Red Cross Organization […]

I was poking around in 1973, looking to see what Easter cartoons might have run a half century ago, but found they were pretty much the same as what was running this Easter.And then I stumbled over this fascinating package from the Los Angeles Times, a pair of articles about comics by two very qualified […]

From The Columbus Dispatch of April 7: An exhibit currently on display at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will be featured during a segment on “CBS Sunday Morning” this weekend. “Man Saves Comics!: Bill Blackbeard’s Treasure of 20th Century Newspapers” includes part of a monumental collection ? 2.5 million pieces ? of […]