Today’s Dark Side of the Horse reminds me …… of that fine Henrietta in the Land of Wonderful Dreams daily sequence last week:Macanudo is a highlight of the funny pages! Little Nemo images from The Comic Strip Library.

It is still the holiday weekend and some residue remains.A print of that fine Mutts comic is available. As the embers of the fireworks die out in Prince Valiant. It’s police detective meets private detective as Dethany joins Dick Tracy again.update: This will be a true crossover. Bill Holbrook announces:I have a cool announcement to make that’s […]

I was going to avoid politics today, but I’m not sure this Candorville counts as politics so much as sociology.Yesterday’s social media postings were full of white folks being shocked and righteously indignant that the original Independence Day didn’t free anyone but them.It reminded me of my oft-told story of coming away from a police […]

A Kansas newspaper whose publisher is a county Republican chairman posted a cartoon on its Facebook page likening an order from the state’s [Democratic] governor requiring people to wear masks in public to the round-up and murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.From the Anderson County Review Facebook page:The Guardian carries the story.The [weekly] […]

Earlier today Old Man Peterson showed some 4th of July comics from his youth. But I’m a young Hep Cat, so here’s some comic strips from today’s papers.These days daily comics come with color so The Fourth landing on a Saturday doesn’t disallow for a red, white, and blue fireworks display. Dustin and Dennis did […]

A century ago, July 4 fell on a Sunday, which provides some long-form comics. Oddly enough, it provides only a limited amount of holiday hoopla, and I didn’t find a lot of Independence Day graphics to brighten up the place.Instead, Page Ones were covering the Democratic Convention, which, as this Boston Globe Extra explains, was […]

The Green Eyeshades have recognize the very best journalism in the southeastern United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia).2020 Winners for Editorial Cartoon / Newspapers First Place: Freelance – Robert Ariail, 2019 cartoons Second Place: Aiken Standard – Al Goodwyn, Al Goodwyn Collection Third Place: Chattanooga Times Free […]

Let’s begin this very personal saunter through the funnies with a self-own in the form of this Bizarro.Back in my Struggling Author days, I dwelt in the land of D-level rejection: My novel manuscript would often come back with a personal — rather than a pre-printed — letter, but never the kind that asked me […]

On today’s “Three-Word Answer” we talked with award-winning cartoonist, illustrator and children’s author Dave Whamond. The pen, heart and mind behind more than 50 books, Dave’s also been creating his syndicated comic panel “Reality Check” since 1995. An Alberta, Canada native, Dave has been called “one helluva guy” by too many people to count.If you’ll […]

Al Wiesner was born on July 2, 1930.Albert S. Wiesner didn’t jump into the comics scene as a youngster. He served in the U.S.A.F. and then earned a living as a women’s hairdresser. But always having an itch for cartooning. Finally, in the mid-1980s, Al took the plunge. “I had said to my wife, ‘I […]

Let’s begin apolitically, with this Greg Kearney depiction of the woman who was gored by a bison a few days ago at Yellowstone.Last time I was at Yellowstone, I passed a jogger, then came over a hill and saw a herd of bison, so I slowed down until the jogger caught up so that he […]

Magazine cartoonist Henry Martin has passed away.Henry Read MartinJuly 15, 1925 – June 30, 2020 Excerpted from daughters Ann and Jane’s announcement via Michael Maslin: Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Henry Read Martin (who signed his cartoons H. Martin) died on June 30, 2020, just two weeks shy of his 95th birthday. For a man who had […]

After 13 years Matt Bors has decided to part from his syndicate.From Matt’s Twitter feed:Matt continues:Matt’s page at Tinyview. At Daily Kos.And no worries about him abandoning The Nib:Don’t know if Matt’s 13 year archive will remain at GoComics.

The blowback from the revelation of Russian bounties on American servicemembers continues, with a flood of cartoons on the topic. Glad it’s early in the week, because there’s also a flood of other topics cresting.I’m leading with Nick Anderson‘s because it not only riffs on the President’s arrogant assertion that his behavior doesn’t matter to […]

When you worked for Eisner and then when you got out of the service and worked for Stan Lee, were all of your colleagues obsessed with comics? Did you talk a lot about comics and the artists in the field. I think in the back of the minds of everybody who could draw straight figures […]