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An UnPresidented Deck of Cards

by D. D. Degg 0 comments April 10, 2019

The crowd funding effort for “the UnPresidented deck” has reached almost, as of this writing, 300% of its stated goal, and still has three days until the project’s call for pledges ends.As the Digital Journal explains:The UNPRESIDENTED deck, like an ancient deck, each suit has unique symbolism as Spades represents the Trump Administration that includes […]

California Supreme Court to Review Ted Rall’s Petition Against L.A. Times

by TDC Archive 0 comments April 10, 2019

From Ted: Against long odds, the California Supreme Court has granted my Petition for Review. We are asking the high court to vacate the LA Times’ abusive anti-SLAPP motion against me as granted by the two lower courts. The successful Petition was drafted by my attorneys Jeff Lewis and Roger Lowenstein.  From Ted’s blog:Breaking precedent where newspapers are […]

CSotD: Random fits of expertise

by Mike Peterson 2 comments April 10, 2019

Agnes has found a skull which appears to be that of a cow, but she’s convinced herself that it is a fossil and is therefore the skull of a cow dinosaur.Today, under continual questioning from a dubious Trout, she plays the traditional card of the clearly-wrong: A claim of expertise.Where else have you heard someone […]

Comic Strips and Cross Roads

by D. D. Degg 2 comments April 9, 2019

 Mark Alan Stamaty Returns to His MacDoodle St. HomeMark Alan Stamaty’s Village Voice comic MacDoodle St. is unlike anything else in print. Each installment of the weekly strip, which ran from 1978 to 1979, is packed with sight gags and digressions, the panels near to bursting with recurring characters and critters…The final strip shows Malcolm […]

CSotD: Confronting Us With Our Failures

by Mike Peterson 2 comments April 9, 2019

There are times you’d like to just ignore it all and retreat into the funnies, but it’s getting kind of hard to pretend you don’t know what’s going on.Retail isn’t even trying to be political, but, then again, there was a time when the prevailing politics were such that these daily assaults on honesty were […]

Never Was Comic Strips – Harlequin Romances and The Ploots

by D. D. Degg 1 comments April 8, 2019

Peg Montana, the widow of Archie comic strip creator Bob Montana, was going through Bob’s papers after his death and came on to a proposal about aliens. Peg joined with Jeff Cuddy, Bob’s Archie assistant from the early sixties until his death in 1975, to develop the idea into a comic strip.“Going through some of […]

CSotD: Among My Souvenirs

by Mike Peterson 6 comments April 8, 2019

Bizarro takes un-cluttering to a whole other level. Sort of.This un-cluttering thing has come along at a bad time for me, because I’ve reached a point where I want to live simply — I’m in a three room apartment but envy this place because it’s so much more efficient — and I’m also old enough […]

From Silver to Gold – The Week That Was

by D. D. Degg 0 comments April 8, 2019

 Sped Right By MeDave Coverly celebrated the Silver Anniversary of Speed Bump this past week (April 4?, 1994).  Entertaining and Educational Silver Reuben Gainesville radio station WDUN joins James Allen in celebrating the Sunday Mark Trail being nominated in the National Cartoonists Society‘s first Variety Entertainment divisional award.“So I submitted to the variety and entertainment category, […]

Ed-Op Cartoon Roundup (use as instructed)

by D. D. Degg 0 comments April 8, 2019

 More Social Media AI MoralityClay Jones violates Instagram’s Community Standards by exposing repressive regimes.  HonorsAl Goodwyn wins as Editorial Cartoonist at the 2019 South Carolina Press Association Awards.Also winning first place is Aiken Standard cartoonist, Al Goodwyn, in the Cartoon category. Among the winning entries by Goodwyn was his cartoon on overcrowding at the Aiken County […]

CSotD: Financial Follies

by Mike Peterson 7 comments April 7, 2019

Steve Sack comments on the Chinese woman who wandered into Mar-A-Lago with some malware and god knows what intentions, which also ties into the administration’s general “It’s okay: He’s with me” attitude towards security clearances.The official response has been “See? We caught her! No problem!” but that’s a damn fool attitude.We in the media used […]

Comics In Somebody’s (Not Your) Newspaper

by D. D. Degg 1 comments April 6, 2019

 New Comics Coming to the Goldsboro News-ArgusCome Sunday, you will see a change in our comics lineup. We will say goodbye to some favorite strips and hello to some new friends. The new friends include some classic comics as well as some others you may not yet have heard of but will quickly get to […]

CSotD: Out of Touch

by Mike Peterson 3 comments April 6, 2019

I’ve been tempted to go one of two directions lately: Either to run an entire day of Joe Biden cartoons or to run an announcement saying “No blog today. There was nothing but Joe Biden cartoons.”Jeff Danziger offers an antidote of sorts.I don’t really think — and I doubt Danziger thinks — that the Russians […]

Don Morgan – RIP

by D. D. Degg 0 comments April 6, 2019

 Animator and Pogo artist Don Morgan has passed away.Donald Lester (Don) Morgan May 16, 1938 – March 31, 2019 From the obituary:He grew up in Mechanicsburg, Penn., and joined the Navy three days after graduation from high school. After his time in the Navy he went to Pratt Institute and majored in industrial design, although he […]

CSotD: Never mind the hugs, it’s Friday Funnies!

by Mike Peterson 3 comments April 5, 2019

I hesitate to ignore the Biden Huggy cartoons lest they start to pile up and block the exits, but it is Friday and so let’s have some funnies instead.Over at Zits, Jeremy and Pierce discovered, to their mutual embarrassment, that they both enjoy reading kids books. I thought the punchline on this particular strip was […]

Return of a Classic Comic Strip

by D. D. Degg 1 comments April 5, 2019

 Sixty-five years after they first debuted in 1954, Bazooka Joe and His Gang returns.Bazooka Candy Brands announced the arrival of its Bazooka Throwback pack on Thursday, April 4. According to a press release…the new nostalgia-inducing pack has an ’80s-themed design that was inspired by the gum’s original packaging.As you can see, the front of the […]

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