With Thanksgiving done and gone it’s time to start thinking about buying … calendars for the upcoming year.Here we consider comics related calendars for 2022, and the Hogan’s Alley store has a fine selection of classics available. Krazy Kat, Polly and Her Pals, Little Nemo, and The Yellow Kid for those, like me, who are […]

Well, yes, Ethel, there is that: Willie ‘n Ethel comment on my first year-and-a-half as a retired person. The pandemic was indeed a lovely ego-crutch, though, as noted here, I did just sneak out to visit family in Minnesota.Please don’t tell my credit card. Though, as Kevin Kallaugher notes, coffee break is over and it’s time […]

  New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Fitgerald Campbell is far too young to have a full-blown biography, so this Press Democrat profile will suffice.When Campbell was a kid, a sketch of Charles Schulz’s Snoopy hung in the hallway of her Sonoma home, a gift from Schulz to her mother. Campbell’s grandfather, the late Daniel Vaughan, was […]

Monty (AMS)‘s pal Moondog is still hauling a turkey around and aren’t we all?Thanksgiving leftovers are something people in cartoons complain about but that I suspect people in real life not only don’t mind but actually enjoy.The microwave really shines this time of year, when you can quickly recreate Thanksgiving dinner in miniature, cold turkey […]

John Cole has been the editorial cartoonist for the Scranton (Pa) Times-Tribune since 2005. He also moonlights once a week for NC Policy Watch (he had spent twenty years previous to The Times-Tribune as staff artist/cartoonist for the Durham Herald-Sun). John recently sat down with Ed Pikulski for a twenty minute interview.The topics ranged from […]

Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates comic strip has been collected in a number of formats – from Big Little Books to complete collections.    But now comes the last word for Terry and the Pirates in book form. The Library of American Comics and Clover Press are proud to publish Terry and the Pirates: The […]

A bit of Black Friday humor from Frazz (AMS) to mark the day.I’m having a little trouble with shopping options, given, as Frazz notes, that the era of the shopping mall is pretty well dead.It sure didn’t last long, given the investment involved, but, then, it was a dubious concept to begin with: The developers […]

© Ward SuttonWard Sutton and The Village Voice start us off with a Thanksgiving Day comic. Roadside America takes us to Lancaster, Ohio where they celebrate local boy made good with the headline Richard Outcault: Inventor of the Comic Strip. Richard Outcault (1863-1928) was an American illustrator and creator of The Yellow Kid, the first published […]

Dave Granlund points out that Thanksgiving, as a national holiday, was not about Pilgrims. It would be nice to say that it was instituted to give thanks that the Civil War was over, but, in fact, it was declared in the midst of the conflict.Note that Sarah Josepha Hale, when she asked the president to […]

Alden Capital’s attempted to takeover Lee Enterprises has stalled.From The Wrap: Lee Enterprises Inc. — one of few sizeable American newspaper chains not owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital LLC — has adopted a limited duration shareholder rights plan that would prevent Alden from acquiring more than 10% of the company, as Lee Enterprises […]

Bill Waterson Extremely Rare Teaching With Calvin And Hobbes Book (Playground Publishing, 1993). Those hoping to find a copy of Teaching With Calvin And Hobbes in the wild are usually advised to stop their search right now — supposedly, only eight libraries in the world have copies, and three of those are in North Dakota, […]

Usually any book missed in the monthly Hey Kids! Comics! checklist would wait to be noted in the following month’s entry, but this one is too important (and deserves separate documentation anyway).PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED A Memoir By Edward Sorel The book from Penguin Random House is now available! Alongside more than 172 of his drawings, cartoons, […]

Adam Weinstein wins the Internet this week, and, anticipating tomorrow’s traditional question, what I’m thankful for is that the comic strip artists have given me a chance to forego politics for the holiday. Well, mostly. Martyn Turner, who is in Ireland and so doesn’t have to do a cartoon about the political hazards of seating at […]

Alden Capital continued its drive to own as much of the American newspaper industry as it can with a bid Monday to acquire Lee Enterprises, a publicly traded chain of 75 daily newspapers and several hundred other outlets. Lee’s largest papers include the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Arizona Daily Star, The Buffalo News, the Omaha […]

This Jeff Stahler (AMS) cartoon greets me appropriately upon my return from Younger Son’s home in Minnesota, where I had Thanksgiving a week early with his family of four, another granddaughter and her husband, and my ex, all of whom live there.I heartily recommend it, because the flights were cheaper, though you might want to […]