We want to open this year’s respect to those who have come before us by thanking the people who made it possible for Barbara Shermund to be given her due.       (Phil May)      (Wilhelm Busch)          images via Find A Grave 

From the Wikipedia introduction to Nero Wolfe:Nero Wolfe is a fictional character, a brilliant, oversized, eccentric armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in New York City, and he is loath […]

Marshall Ramsey began his career at the University of Tennessee Daily Beacon (sample above).His post-college career led him first to Pope High School in Georgia, where he was a janitor who rolled around a barrel with his diploma attached. After a six-month “pity party” and a Sunday sermon about the parable of the talents, Ramsey […]

Sunday’s Barney & Clyde reminded me that one of the pleasures of going to Manitou Springs back when I lived out West was a stunt painter who was camped out on a corner.Manitou Springs was a fun place, even if you didn’t want to climb Pikes Peak, which starts there, or take in the waters, […]

MAD is the magazine that just will not die.Quentin Tarantino‘s studio and MAD have once again collaborated to create an all-new issue of MAD. This time as a bonus for a collectors’ edition of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” as a blu-ray release in December 2019. Included, among other goodies, will be an “exclusive […]

Speaking of syndicate homepages…The Andrews McMeel Syndication homepage has recently added a new comic strip to its lineup.Dark Side of the Horse by Samson (aka Samuli Lintula) is now on the page for print syndication.From what I can suss from the history of the strip it possibly first appeared in 2008. The GoComics archive of […]

For a week, since Thursday October 24, Comics Kingdom hadn’t updated Rex Morgan, M.D. Rex fans opened up the page to the same strip every day for a week:And it was only the Rex strip stuck in time, no other KFS strips. Terry Beatty even had to chime in to assure fans that he was […]

A graphic short story with Words and Pictures by Grant Snider. 

We’ll start the Halloween rundown with Sunday’s Pajama Diaries, which raises the question, “What’s with all the ‘Sexy-whatever’ costumes?”I suppose one interpretation could be that Moms don’t get a lot of opportunities to be sexy, though, as suggested here, they’re too busy in the first place.For my part, I’m less fascinated by the “if you’ve […]

So – I know Doc Wonmug goes back in time, but has Alley Oop ever gone BACK from his time?   

Dennis Draughon, Capitol Broadcasting Company’s editorial cartoonist, has been recognized for the best editorial/political cartoons by Editor & Publisher magazine’s 24th annual EPPY Awards. The annual competition honors the best work on digital media websites. Draughon, 58, has been drawing editorial cartoons for Capitol Broadcasting since February 2017.The EPPY judges praised Draughon’s cartoons as “clever […]

So the 2019 World Series has its scandals. Baseball fans jeered the President and baseball fans flashed the Houston Astros pitcher. That’s got to top the World Series of 100 years ago when the Chicago White Sox threw the series to the Cincinnati Reds.The 1919 Black Sox Scandal didn’t become public knowledge until 1920, disappointing […]

Liza Donnelly, a cartoonist and writer for The New Yorker Magazine and CBS, visited the Education Building Room 115 [at The College of New Jersey] on Oct. 24 to discuss the importance of cartoons in society, and described her own use of humor to portray political and cultural themes in cartoons through her career and […]

Tim Campbell‘s cartoon might be more of a general comment on the focus following the death of al-Baghdadi had he not used the term “bellyaching” to describe the reaction to Trump’s announcement.As many commentators have said, the operation itself should have been, and seems to have been, viewed as positive.Only one or two very leftwing […]

“K Chronicles” and now-retired “Knight Life” cartoonist is featured on the latest RIYL (Recommended If You Like) podcast.From the site: All through it, cartoonist Keith Knight has balanced family with a multimedia career including comics, music (most notably the five-piece hip-hop group, the Marginal Prophets) and a push to adapt his work for television.Click here […]