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For reasons unexplained I have dozens of cartoonist self-caricatures. Before deleting them thought I’d share ’em. So… Not enough? Hundreds more at…

A century ago, July 4 fell on a Sunday, which provides some long-form comics. Oddly enough, it provides only a limited amount of holiday hoopla, and I didn’t find a lot of Independence Day graphics to brighten up the place.Instead, Page Ones were covering the Democratic Convention, which, as this Boston Globe Extra explains, was […]

Since Memorial Day cartoons seem predictable, I thought I’d go back a century and see what they were doing then, when it was still called Decoration Day. E.A. Bushnell kicks off our coverage. The US was in the middle of the World War, on the verge of having a million men in Europe and not far […]

I was looking back at coverage of the Civil Rights Act a half-century ago and, well, got distracted. We’ll get to the “50 Years Ago” part eventually, but first let’s look at what you’d have looked at if you’d sat down with your paper on April 13, 1914 (This will be a good day to […]