From Snow White to Bugs Bunny to PunkinheadCelebrating a cabin built 100 years ago in Manitoba gives reason to profile Charles Thorson, who spent his childhood in said cabin.Charles Thorson moved to Hollywood in 1934 and became a cartoonist who created prototypes for Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the […]

Speed Bump cartoonist Dave Coverly spent some time in Bloomington, Indiana on his way to the hinterlands. Dave and some of his cartoon originals return to Bloomington for a good cause.Reports The Herald Times:Over the course of three decades, his panels have occasionally featured jokes involving cats and dogs. Some of those panels will be […]

Consolidated Publishing Co. publishes two daily newspapers (and a few weeklies) in Alabama. They have decided that the daily papers, The Anniston Star and The (Talladega) Daily Home, should have identical syndicated content.For decades, The Anniston Star and The Daily Home have both published a comics page. Over the years, the lineup changes from time […]

Arlo & Janis touches off a low-level rant, because I care more about this phenomenon on radio than I do on TV, possibly because I don’t watch a lot of TV.I appreciate that, in the Olden Days segment, he had the woman come in from the next room, because, if you were right there, phones […]

[Jack Ohman] grew up fishing for bluegills in Lake Johanna, slinging Texas rigs for bass on Mille Lacs and drifting for walleyes in his father’s 12-foot “car-topper,’’ a vintage boat he still keeps. High school friends coaxed him to the Kinnickinnic River in River Falls, Wis., and he evolved into a fly fishing junkie of […]

I mentioned the other day that, in eighth grade social studies, we learned the terms “log-rolling” and “back-patting,” from a teacher who also required us to know the members of the Supreme Court and of the President’s Cabinet, and, in the latter case, what their departments were charged with.It’s become a regular luncheon-speaker horror story […]

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting the death of Steve Ditko. Artist Steve Ditko, who co-created Spider-Man and Doctor Strange with Stan Lee, has died at age 90. The New York Police Department confirmed his death to The Hollywood Reporter.No cause of death was announced. Ditko was found dead in his apartment on June 29 and […]

Let’s start things off with the Serendipity Award, as Rhymes With Orange drops this gag smack in the middle of a massive heat wave at least for those of us in the Northeast, which includes RWOHQ in Massachusetts.I suspect that, if you had a wax museum without AC, you could set up a pretty impressive […]

From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:July 5, 2018 marks the 60th birthday of legendary comic creator Bill Watterson. His iconic cartoon Calvin and Hobbes has entertained generations of readers, bringing the witty adventures and philosophical musings of a six-year-old boy and his stuffed tiger to newspapers around the world. To mark Watterson’s birthday, here are 60 facts you may not know about him.60 […]

Editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey ponders his career choice in 2018.Editorial cartoonist positions were already disappearing because of the swing of accountants’ axes. Losing one because the cartoonist was too critical of a person in power is particularly chilling.I’ll be honest, it’s unnerving. Change is scary. There are days when I wake up with fear in […]

David Horsey avoided the two obvious approaches to Fourth of July cartoons: Those simply waving the flag and cheering, and those pointing out the various hypocrisies of celebrating at all.It’s almost as if he walks around actually talking to people instead of sitting in his cubbyhole absorbing and illustrating political rhetoric.The two little kids in […]

13 Ingenious Facts About Rube Goldberg Celebrating the 135th anniversary of the man’s birth Mental Floss‘ “…Things You Might Not Know About…” takes a turn at Rube Goldberg. Also, a quick Rube profile. “My Job is to Make People Smile” Cartoonist Jerry Scott, of Baby Blues and Zits comic strip fame, is on vacation in Alaska. […]

Selected color Independence Day comic strips by Jim Scancarelli  2018 (and 2006)  2003  2014  2005  2012  2011  2015Images via GoComics  

July 4, 1954, came just less than a month after Senator Welch spoke the famous lines at the Army/McCarthy hearings, “Have you no sense of decency?” All the talk about “Making America Great Again” makes it seem like a good time to take a look back at those Olden Days of Greatness on Independence Day, and […]

Winsor McCay, Little Nemo, and The Fourth of July. 110 years ago Winsor McCay had 330 square inches to work with! July 5, 1908  July 4, 1909  July 3, 1910 hat tip: The Comic Strip Library