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Tales of Hy Eisman … and Popeye

 “Other teachers would call my mother into school. They’d say, ‘He sits and draws all day.’ My mother would say, ‘He wants to be a cartoonist.’ ‘Don’t worry,’ the teachers told her. ‘He’ll grow out of it.’” Spoiler: He didn’t.Hy Eisman has been in the comics business for nearly 70 years! As a young man […]

Frank Bernard – RIP

 Cartoonist/caricaturist Frankie Bernard has passed away.FRANCIS J. (FRANKIE) BERNARD, JR. April 30, 1967 – December 18, 2018 From the obituary:Frankie plied himself as a talented and professional cartoonist. He was a featured editorial cartoonist for the Chelsea Record and Journal Transcript Publications, he also worked several years as a caricature artist in Boston’s Faneuil Hall Market. […]

CSotD: So good. It’s been long to know you.

I curate my social media enough that I miss some things, but if anybody is mourning the retirement of Paul Ryan, it hasn’t come across my feed. The most sympathetic take I’m seeing is along the lines of this simple Ann Telnaes commentary, which I don’t think is intended to be sympathetic.But there he is, […]

Bobby Hart – RIP

 Bobby Hart, the Matriarch of the John Hart Studios crew, has passed away.From the obituary:Bobby Hart (Ida Jane Hatcher) left this world in the wee morning hours of Saturday December 15th, to reunite with her cartoonist husband Johnny Hart, on Heaven’s dance floor. Bobby is survived by daughters Patti Hart and Perri Hart, grandsons Mason […]

CSotD: B’rer Trump

It’s probably a mistake to lead off with the funniest editorial cartoon of the day, perhaps the week, perhaps more, but Bill Bramhall knocked me out my chair with this.There is a load of brilliance in this simple drawing.Anybody could have drawn Trump with his hand in the cookie jar, and perhaps have brought into […]

Believing It (or Not) for 100 Years

 In December 1918 Leroy Robert Ripley came up with an idea that would make him famous … and rich. But he didn’t realize it then, and it wouldn’t be until the end of the following decade when his idea struck gold.Robert, having dropped the Leroy, was a sports cartoonist for the New York Globe and […]

CSotD: History, philosophy, current events

We’ll start easy today, with a bit of trivia sparked by the current Vintage Radio Patrol, from November, 1948. In the strip — which, by the way, I read for its camp value — the criminals have taken over a legitimate used car lot and are re-selling stolen vehicles.It would be another six years before […]

First and Last – Space Conquerors!

 Boy’s Life began in 1911. The next year it was bought by, and became the official magazine of, the Boy Scouts of America. Comics had been a part of the magazine from the beginning but a particular energized period was the couple of decades when the comics section was produced by Johnstone and Cushing ad […]

CSotD: Winter Fantasies

Today’s Zits struck home because it’s not only true but something I hate because (A) I think the people doing it are idiots and (B) that makes me feel like a cranky old man.And while I think Jeremy’s mother is in a state of perpetual over-reaction to things that don’t matter, I’m with her on […]

Dave Whamond – Unreal Reality

 A few decades ago Dave Whamond began his career as an editorial cartoonist for The Calgary Herald while still in college. Now he once again joins The Brotherhood of Editorial Cartoonists.Daryl Cagle welcomes Dave “to Cagle.com and our syndication package.”The Dave Whamond archive at Cagle Cartoons only has a dozen or so cartoons up at […]

CSotD: Sunday Roundup

I don’t often feature political cartoons on local issues, though I think it’s important that cartoonists do them, which, in turn, means it’s important that local newspapers have a cartoonist on staff.A cartoonist whose only market is syndication wouldn’t bother to comment on a company that makes ball caps in suburban Buffalo deciding not to […]

Hey Kids! Comics! – December Gifts

 Books due to be released December 2018.   Library of American Comcs Volume 12: Baron Bean, 1918    My First 100 Peanuts Words boardbook    Superman: The Silver Age Sundays, Vol. 1: 1959 – 1963    Garfield Nutty as a Fruitcake: His 66th Book    A Valentine For Linus! (Peanuts)    Laughing Matters: The Political Cartoons of Richard Laurent    American Comic […]

Some Header About Newspaper Comic Strips

 Frew (Australia) The Phantom comic book wraparound cover by Sunday Phantom artist Jeff Weigel.  Many of today’s young people seem to know little about history and geography, among other things, and it doesn’t help when even the comics page is feeding misinformation. The Dec. 11 “One Big Happy” has a father asking his son, “What’s Istanbul […]

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