With Patrick McDonnell, Emma Allen, Jim Keefe, Patrick O’Connor, Tatiana Gill, Dan Dare, and the NCS. A Note from Patrick McDonnell In anticipation of a new MUTTS Treasury being released later this month Patrick McDonnell sends a note: There’s something special about sharing our precious time with the beings we love… That spirit is at […]
From Martin Crookall (2015): Except…The Menace from Jupiter was the last Dan Dare story to appear in Eagle, but before we end this sequence, there’s an oddity to consider. Not a story from one of the Annuals, nor any of the other Eagle-related publications that came out from Hulton, or Odhams, or Longacre. But a […]
While Bill Hinds seems to be the permanent cartoonist for Marmaduke now, Kit Mills has stepped in for Rachel Merrill as the Gil Thorp “guest artist” for this week at least. We’ll see how long the guest stays. I can only guess that Rachel needed some time to work on her and Henry Barajas‘ Death […]
Mr. Fitz is moving from a middle-school to K-12 setting over the summer, which will give real-world teacher David Finkle a wider range of topics. At the moment, Mr. Fitz has been assigned to help students with their college essays and sad hilarity ensues.Finkle regularly rips bad teaching from the inside, while also offering teachers […]
I’m not really assigning anything, but school has ended for my young writers in Colorado and I’m sure many of them were sent home with summer reading lists. I don’t like summer reading lists because, as I noted long ago, they are too often larded with classics the creator of the list hasn’t read and that make no sense. Or […]
Tom Spurgeon, keeper of the must-go site for comic book enthusiasts, “The Comics Reporter,” offers a link to a Canadian history site that featured a brief discussion of this 1958 offering, “Apostle of the Hurons,” a graphic biography of Saint Jean de Brébeuf that appeared in the “Indian Record,” a publication of a religious order that […]