Curley Wee and Wayback Whensday
Among its attractions and achievements Liverpool England is, according to Wikipedia, “an important cultural centre within the United Kingdom, incorporating…
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Cathy the Cartoonist, Cathy the Comic Strip
The Dayton Daily News a couple days ago: For more than three decades beginning in the mid-1970s, Dayton-born cartoonist Cathy…
Fred Basset 1963 – 2023 (maybe)
Fred Basset has been in rerun status for nearly two months. A week after celebrating its 60th anniversary the comic…
Ella by Nathan Archer 2020 – 2023
Ella, Nathan Archer’s weekly comic strip for The Tallahassee Democrat, ended earlier this year. Nathan Archer had been a regular…
Just Another Wayback Whensday
The Phantom and The Muppets from the 1980s; Paul Bunyan from the early 20th Century, comic strip lettering from later…
Ginger Meggs 1921 – 2023
After a continuous newspaper run of 102 years the Australian comic strip Ginger Meggs has ended. The strip began November…
First and Last: Agnes by Tony Cochran – Updated: Tony Responds
Original July 3rd post – This is a really late addition to our 2022 Departures list. Agnes by Tony Cochran…
Firsts and Lasts: The Daily Flash Gordon
Thirty years ago, mid-1993, a Flash Gordon story comes to an end. And with the end of the story comes…
Cartoonist Gets Her Final Resting Place
Linda Walter, cartoonist for the Susie Q. Smith comic panel and strip among others, died 14 years ago and since…
Mutt and Jeff, the >Almost< First Daily Comic Strip, Ended Forty Years Ago Today
Mutt and Jeff, recognized as the first regularly published daily comic strip >see Allan Hotz’s comment below<, ended after 75…
Moon Mullins – Friends in Low Places
After a decade as a struggling cartoonist, minus a couple years as a World War I doughboy, Frank Willard found…
Rarity: Casey’s Capers by Vincent Faletti
Vincent D. Faletti began cartooning while serving in the Armed Forces during World War 2. Returning home to Michigan he…
Rarity: The First Dirty Duck as Daily Strip
In the last year of Dan O’Neill’s Odd Bodkins for Chronicle Features O’Neill had met Bobby London and others who…
First and Last: Smilin’ Jack
It wasn’t the first aviation comic strip – Tailspin Tommy (1928), Skyroads (1929, which had Zack Mosley art assist), Scorchy…
First and Last: Rusty Riley
By 1948 Frank Godwin (b. 1889) had spent a good 40 years as a respected and requested illustrator for newspapers,…