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CSotD: Identity Politics

Carmen and Winslow have begun sorting through the candidates over at Prickly City, and today’s episode brought a couple of things to mind.First, to set my disclaimers, I’ve lived next door to Vermont for 30 of the last 32 years, in New York for most of those years, in New Hampshire for the past decade […]

Bob Fujitani, Flash Gordon Artist at 97

A talented illustrator and painter, Bob Fujitani rode the comics craze from the 1930s into the ’90s, illustrating such popular strips as “Uncle Sam,” “Flying Dutchman,” “Rip Kirby,” “Dr. Solar,” “Crime Does Not Pay,” “Turok” and “Son of Stone.” He also drew “Prince Valiant” for comic books… Fujitani also drew the terrifying vigilante Hangman (a […]

CSotD: ICYMI

So, having wearied of chasing Hillary Clinton around the Capitol over Benghazi, Devin Nunes is trying for an easier target.He’s suing his cow.He’s also suing his mother. That’s one cold-blooded dude.But perhaps he should read this article from 1988:Note the term “unanimous.” In Hustler v Falwell, even Scalia and Rehnquist agreed, not just Brennan, White, […]

Behind the Scenes – Popeye’s Cartoon Club

 As everyone knows King Features Syndicate is celebrating the 90th year of Popeye and the 100th year of Thimble Theatre by producing the new comic strip Popeye’s Cartoon Club.The March 17, 2019 edition (below) was by cartoonist Tom Neely.Tom has treated us with the original art for his installment.And quite a treat it is!Check out […]

Mark Alan Stamaty Returns to MacDoodle St.

A new edition of the 1980 collection MacDoodle St. by Mark Alan Stamaty is being released with an added 24 pages including a brand-new, twenty-page autobiographical comic by Stamaty explaining what happened next and why MacDoodle St. never returned, in a unique, funny, and poignant look at the struggles and joys of being an artist. […]

Aack! Cathy in the Here and Now

 The first “Cathy” comic strip ran on November 22, 1976. Guisewite remembers the day well; she hid in the bathroom at work for most of it. She was 26 years old and working at an advertising agency in Detroit as a copywriter, and she was terrified that she would be laughed out of the office […]

CSotD: Catch them being good

We’ll start with Pooch Cafe, which is based on a question I’ve never asked a dog, not for fear of getting Poncho’s response but because I don’t expect any response at all.But I keep asking the question of politicians and I have no idea why, except that every once in awhile one of them does give […]

70th National Newspaper Award Finalists

 The National Newspaper Awards is the trade name of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Awards Programme Administration Corporation, a not-for-profit body which governs the awards program. Finalists for Editorial Cartooning: • Michael de Adder, Halifax Chronicle-Herald/Brunswick News/Toronto Star.    • Brian Gable, Globe and Mail. • Garnotte (Michel Garneau), Le Devoir. A couple National Newspaper Awards notes: Brian Gable […]

Erie Times-News Cuts 10 Dailies, Adds 2 Sundays

The Erie Times-News, after tallying their comics survey, has cut 10 comic strips and panels from their daily line-up.Gone are “Wallace The Brave,” “Mr. Boffo,” “Mary Worth,” “Lio” “Herman,” “Moderately Confused,” “Wumo,” “The Buckets,” “Shoe” and “Get Fuzzy.” Though I suspect not everyone will be amused by today’s comics pages, I hope you will feel […]

Jim Scancarelli and The Eternal Walt Wallet

 Alex Dueben, at The Comics Journal, has a nice interview with Jim Scancarelli about his 40 years on Gasoline Alley.I have to ask, are Walt and Skeezix ever going to die? I’ve been asked that. In the back of my head, I have a scenario that would work. I have told Bob Harvey, but I […]

CSotD: Lost Weekend

I’m as distracted as Mo — this has been quite a weekend, and if the worst outcome is a chunk of pineapple in your martini, you got away with a better taste in your mouth than the rest of us.It’s even worse than this. Ann Telnaes apparently drew this one before Trump first failed to […]

Comic Strip History, Lessons #292 – 296

Little Man on Campus by Dick BiblerAnd then there was Richard “Dick” Bibler, whom Richard E. Freiburg remembered as “easily the best known Oread Hall resident” of the late 1940s. Not for any hard-court or gridiron glories, mind you, but rather for his popular “Little Man on Campus” cartoon that appeared in the University Daily […]

CSotD: Happy Stepin McFetchit Day

The Barn pretty well summarizes the day. As an excuse to get blind drunk, it’s not bad. As a holiday saluting a nation, well, it’s only one day out of 365 and tomorrow all those fools will be at work hungover.That should be punishment enough, but feel free to cheerfully ask them if they’ve got […]

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