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McDonnell and Mutts’ Tributes to Album Art

Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts is famous for a number of reasons, among them is his gentle-but-great humor, his sensitivity to the plight of animals, and his fantastic artistic abilities. Another famed feature are the homages that make up his title panels.There are dozens of examples throughout the years of his homages to artists such as Captain […]

CSotD: Believe You Me

Jen Sorensen explains where we’re at.I think.It’s hard to know what’s going on, because we tend to rely on what people discuss on social media, and, first of all, we don’t know the proportion of the actual population they represent.That is, it’s fair to assume that nearly everyone is on social media of some sort, […]

A Cornucopia of Comic News Items

The Improbable RemainsOn his How To book tour Randall Munroe goes north to Alaska. The Juneau Empire reports on Randall’s lecture there. The Spurns that Patient Merit of th’ Unworthy TakesAt the time of this writing, the two most influential politicians in the United States are a real estate developer who became president and a bartender […]

CSotD: Earlybird Special

Frazz brings back a memory: Back when I used to visit classrooms to teach media literacy, my offer to teachers was that I would come for free, any time they wanted, except on the last day of class before a major holiday.Nobody ever objected; most greeted it with laughter, because they didn’t want to be […]

Sunday Funnies-Steve Roper & Mike Nomad Return

above: “Walt Kelly’s Pogo” from November 17, 1991 by Neal Sternecky The Sunday before Thanksgiving can only mean one thing, a Gasoline Alley banner by Jim Scancarelli.  Jason Chatfield has me confused. Is the new Ginger Meggs story a late Halloween tale? A Thanksgiving parable? Or will it stretch into late next month and be a […]

CSotD: Sunday Potpourri

 It doesn’t matter where we begin today, since it’s really a grab bag, but Chip Bok’s cartoon made me think, so we’ll start there.I brushed off the Bloomberg part. I’m glad he admitted that “Stop and Frisk” was a bad policy, but I don’t take his candidacy seriously and it doesn’t seem anyone else does, […]

CSotD: Truthiness

The idea that everyone was glued to the hearings is a bit fanciful, though somebody posted a photo taken on an airplane where all the screens were playing the same thing despite the choices available, including the choice of nothing at all.However, the laundromat TV was tuned to a comedy when I put in my […]

Gahan Wilson – RIP

Iconic cartoonist Gahan Wilson has passed away.Gahan Allen Wilson February 18, 1930 – November 21, 2019Stepson Paul Winters is reporting the death of Gahan Wilson:Gahan Wilson 2/18/1930 – 11/21/2019 The world has lost a legend. One of the very best cartoonists to ever pick up a pen and paper has passed on. He went peacefully […]

CSotD: Friday Funnies with Amygdagiggles

If you only pick up the funnies every once in awhile, you have no more idea of what the hell is going on than Wallace‘s teacher. And, while I have the greatest sympathy for her, it serves you right, but I’ll direct you back to where this all began and, trust me, the trip will […]

14 Fun Facts About Peanuts

When the first Peanuts comic strip debuted on October 2, 1950, readers, editors, and even creator Charles M. Schulz himself had no idea they were a witness to history being made. It took a while for the charming world inhabited by Charlie Brown, his dog Snoopy, and the entire Peanuts family to became a comics […]

PS Magazine as Comic Book 1951-2019

Mike Rhode is reporting that PS: The Preventative Maintenance Monthly, a comic bookish instructional manual for the U. S. Army, will cease to exist as it has for 68 years:“Effective 1 Nov 2019, PS will cease publication of its monthly, illustrated magazine and move to a fully-online information resource. To read PS Magazine after 1 […]

Marvel Comics #1 Set to Go for $1Million – update

Marvel Comics #1 is setting up to go for over $1,000,000 at auction.Heritage Auctions has a high-grade copy of the first Marvel (then Timely) comic book, Marvel Comics #1, from 1939, closing in on an auction price of $1,000,000.As Heritage Auctions says:In the earliest Overstreet Comic Book Price Guides, only Action #1 and Detective Comics […]

CSotD: Back to Basics

I don’t know if Paul Berge considers this a cartoon or if he just posted it on his page to amuse himself and his regulars.Machs nix. When I used to do a presentation to high school students about political cartooning, I began by noting that they’ve usually got some wiseass who passes rude things around […]

Anchorage Daily News Comics Survey

The Anchorage Daily News is thinking of making changes changes to its syndicated content.Editor David Hulen tells readers: I learned a long time ago that readers have strong opinions about comics, puzzles and other features in the newspaper. We’re considering some changes to the print newspaper, and we want to hear from you. If you […]

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