The Ginger Meggs comic strip will mark its one hundredth anniversary this week. It was Aussie Jimmy Bancks who introduced the world to this mischevious scamp in November 1921 in a feature called Us Fellers, which he changed to Ginger Meggs about a month later. A series of creators followed Bancks’s untimely death in 1953: […]
It is occasionally brought to my attention that, while the feature is called “Comic Strip of the Day,” it often features editorial cartoons. I’ll also confess that I always feature more than one comic strip, which wasn’t the case back in 2010 when I started doing this, either.Anyhow, one way to make me feature funny […]
It seems that with Kieran Castaño signing this past Sunday’s Ripley’s Believe It or Not he has taken on all the panel’s duties (he had been signing the dailies since August).But first – Kieran Castaño?Kieran, who signs the feature with an indecipherable (to me) initial and his last name, was finally revealed as the cartoonist […]
The University Press of Mississippi has all their books on sale! Here are a few of them: Over 150 comics related titles all on sale for $20.22. Get ’em while they last.
It’s a case of life imitating art, or more specifically, life imitating a cartoon. A while back, Tom Toro published a cartoon in The New Yorker that exquisitely captures this sentiment, that our obsession with wealth continues to suffocate the will to ensure a livable planet. That cartoon was published in 2012. Since then, it […]
Bill Bramhall opens the day with a nightmare depiction of a woke Democrat, which brings to mind the oft-repeated quote of poor Henry Clay, “I would rather be right than be president.”Be careful what you wish for.I say “poor Henry Clay” because he was a great man in an era when we needed great men, […]
The debut of the short subject Rooty Toot Toot seventy years ago this month is as much a groundbreaking moment for animation as the first full-length feature, animated shows on prime-time TV, and the advent of computer-generated imagery. It tells a darkly comedic tale that would seem daring even for live-action films of the time, […]
From Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s new Paper Trends installment: Since we started this survey one thing has remained constant: when an NEA strip is cancelled and the syndicate replaces it with a new strip, that new strip will have fewer papers than the cancelled strip. © UFS In 1985 we have the opposite; Levy’s Law was cancelled […]
Arlo is right. Whatever the benefits or failures of Daylight Saving Time, it sure gives people a lot of latitude for conversation, and I use the word pointedly, because the United States extends through enough latitude that, when it comes to sunlight, most of us don’t know what the rest of us are talking about.When […]
Since Verne asked – maybe a treasure hunt, or some time traveling, or listen to music, or visit a swamp, or …How about an Autumn nature hike. (No, still no 2021 Walt and Skeezix.) From the top: Betty © Delainey & Rasmussen Frazz © Jef Mallett Pluggers by McKee © TCA Rose is Rose by […]
Like Wonder Woman, Vaughn Bodé, Gordo, Neal Adams, Captain America, Jim Scancarelli, and Archie Parade began its life in 1941.The first issue of PARADE, subtitled “The Weekly Picture Newspaper,” was published on May 31, 1941. It was packed with photographs left over from PM, an experimental New York newspaper produced by Chicago businessman Marshall Field […]
The passage of the Infrastructure bill seems to have caught political cartoonists flat-footed, with most of the published commentary this morning assuming it remains stalled.I’m not sure I’d go as far as Steve Brodner and compare it to the coming of the Paraclete — Okay, I’m sure I wouldn’t — but it was still quite […]
This week marks the anniversary of a sad day, but one that has unexpected relevance, considering the biggest challenges facing businesses and employees today. It will be 26 years since cartoonist Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, wrote a resignation letter of sorts, informing newspaper editors and readers that he would soon be ending […]
A Weekend Whatnot post. Nestled on the east banks of the Mississippi River south of Kaskaskia Island, not too far from Missouri’s wine country, sits the small town of Chester, Illinois. Chester is the hometown of one of the country’s most legendary cultural figures, Popeye the Sailor Man — both figuratively and literally. The Alton […]
Got an early doctor’s appt today — nothing critical, just the only time it could happen — so here’s a look back to 1966. Fifty-five isn’t a round number, but it’s a Sunday in a pretty good era. Our comics will begin right after this word from Chicken of the Sea. I’m not sure there’s much […]