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TDC Senior Strippers 2025 Welcome Floyd Norman

by D. D. Degg 1 comments June 22, 2025

A profile of Floyd Norman Disney Legend: Though he prefers to be called a “cartoonist,” few other artists working in animation today can boast a career as varied as that of Floyd Norman. From the 1950s to today, Floyd’s diverse career, insightful viewpoint, and unflinching honesty have truly made him a Disney Legend. Floyd E. […]

Miss Cellany’s Sunday Ministry; or, Clearing the Queue

by D. D. Degg 4 comments June 22, 2025

Walt Disney, Chic Young, Bob Montana, Bill Watterson (Spaceman Spiff), Richard Thompson, Brian Fies, Monicaf, David Fitzsimmons, and other cartoonists and comics related miscellany.Lost Cartoon Art Resurfaces In 1933, B.C. boozers could only drink hard liquor at home, in a speakeasy or in a private club. So some journalists got together to form the first […]

CSotD: Waiting for the cartoonists to catch up

by Mike Peterson 11 comments June 22, 2025

Well, now we know what he was going to do, but it’s a little early to ask for commentary. I’ve seen a few post-bombing pieces from Australia, where they’ve had time to react, but most of the other editorial cartoons have been based, as Ohman’s was, on uncertainty.We’ll give everyone 24 hours to respond, and, […]

Now The Phantom Trading Cards

by D. D. Degg 0 comments June 21, 2025

Following up on our report of Peanuts trading cards (scroll to the bottom) comes news of The Phantom trading cards. And like those Peanuts cards with Schulz art The Phantom cards have art by Sunday Phantom artist Jeff Weigel, but in this case it is new art. From Frew Publications in Australia: The Phantom Generations […]

Cartoonist Profiles 206

by D. D. Degg 1 comments June 21, 2025

With Russell Myers, Wayno, Trygve Olson, Lee Mendelson, Mark Pett, Mr. Fish and Art Spiegelman.Russell Myers As a boy, Russell Benton Myers was fascinated by the comic strips in the newspaper. The family subscribed to two newspapers, the Tulsa World and the Tulsa Tribune. That gave him two sets of Sunday comics sections — a […]

CSotD: Sweet Land of Liberty

by Mike Peterson 16 comments June 21, 2025

This is one of those “where do we start?” days, but we might as well begin with the massive element of self-deception that makes everything possible. Part of it is embodied in the way so many people seem to be accepting both the inevitability and the desirability of our heading off to yet another war […]

More GoComics Updates

by D. D. Degg 5 comments June 20, 2025

Yesterday we noted some recent updates to the GoComics site. Today (it is dated “for the week of June 16”) we have a few more. This week’s site improvements, product enhancements, and new functionality. 💬 Comment on Your My Comics Pages You can now join the conversation directly from your My Comics page(s). Comment on […]

This Week in the Funnies Pages

by D. D. Degg 4 comments June 20, 2025

Let’s start with some highlights. Hard pressed to a better comic strip than Thursday’s Bok versus The Snowbeast’s battle in Flash Gordon Thursday making the jump from overture to aftermath. Absolutely wonderful was the “Bok draws the warm pelt tight around his shoulders” caption.Possibly only bettered by Rose’s authoritarian statement in Wednesday’s Wallace the Brave. […]

CSotD: Getting The Pig Over the Stile

by Mike Peterson 18 comments June 20, 2025

The world faces a decision. Or the president does. Somebody seems to, but Trump’s allies and supporters appear to be on more solid ground than he is. They’re divided on whether to attack Iran, but they’re certain that they’ll line up behind whatever Dear Leader decides.It’s just not clear that he’s going to decide anything.Maybe […]

The Price of Humor in Turkey

by D. D. Degg 7 comments June 19, 2025

An update to the fate of Zehra Ömeroğlu, a Turkish cartoonist, who has been the target of criminal prosecution for a cartoon that was published in 2020 and faces a three year prison sentence. On 26 June 2025, the 14th hearing of the trial against cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu will take place in Istanbul. Accused of […]

Comic Strip News ‘n’ Notes

by D. D. Degg 3 comments June 19, 2025

The latest GoComics update from mid-June 2025 tells us of improvements to the site.Visit the twice monthly updated *What’s New on GoComics* page for continued news. NCS Wear Grab a piece of cartooning history! We recently discovered a treasure trove of NCS exclusive t-shirts that had been tucked away in our storage facility in Florida […]

CSotD: Laughing While We Still Can

by Mike Peterson 9 comments June 19, 2025

I’m going to take the risk of Dear Leader making up his mind in the next 24 hours and let the political cartoonists catch up a bit. Meanwhile, Doonesbury reruns are in 2003 and this one makes a point I made yesterday: If we’re going to throw another generation into the Mixmaster, let’s make it […]

Wayback Whensday: Joe Dope

by D. D. Degg 7 comments June 18, 2025

It was clear to US Army leaders after the blitzkrieg of 1939-1940, where German tanks overran first Poland and then most of Western Europe in a matter of weeks, that World War II would be conducted with mechanized warfare to a far greater degree than previous wars. The numbers of vehicles (tanks, half-tracks, cargo trucks, […]

Wednesday Still Comic Book Day?

by D. D. Degg 1 comments June 18, 2025

We don’t cover a lot of traditional comic book stuff here but I’ve got a couple items in the queue and Wednesday is new comic book day for the local comic book shops. (or at least it was at one time, then it went to Tuesdays, and I think it is back to Wednesdays now.) […]

CSotD: Uncle Sam needs your help again

by Mike Peterson 14 comments June 18, 2025

I suggested yesterday that, while its doubtful that Dear Leader saw the mockery in the media, he must certainly have realized that there weren’t huge cheering throngs at his parade.I can’t prove any connection between that disappointment and his sudden enthusiasm for sending American troops to boldly go where no man with heel spurs has […]

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