Love the locations in today’s Thatababy except when it strayed from comic strip titles. I’ll let Slumberland pass as that was in the title. And I understand Lemon putting Moo in there, but I wonder if that is when he took the detour. There are no comic strips called Camp Swampy, Okefenokee Swamp, Dingburg, and […]
Don Trachte and the Fake Norman Rockwell This story has been told before but Neha B at Scoop Upworthy brings it back: “Cartoonist painted fake versions to fool ex-wife during divorce. Cartoonist painted fake versions to fool ex-wife during divorce.” For nearly half a century, Norman Rockwell’s famous painting “Breaking Home Ties,” sold for $15.4 […]
Monday It’s always great to get a laugh when reading The Funny Pages and that is mostly a guarantee with The Duplex. Eno and Fang have moved toward the top of my favorite, must-read comic strips. What’s not laughable is the truth in Monday’s Tank McNamara. I have spent the last few years watching my […]
“New comics to start in June” When I saw the headline for The Sharon (Pa.) Herald article about their comics pages I thought it just the first of what will be a number of newspapers explaining why Big Nate will no longer be appearing daily. Turns out it was something else. From The Sharon Herald […]
A cartoon drawn in a small frame can highlight an incident, a context or a political situation in its entirety. Working as a cartoonist in newspapers, I have had a variety of experiences over the years. Once, at an event, a friend of mine was introducing me as a “journalist.” Someone nearby interrupted, saying, “Oh, […]
A selection of 4th of July comics strips from 2025 and 1925.
From Biographic is everything you need to know about Christiano Ronaldo: Andrews McMeel has their GoComics site fixed, now they need to work on the newspapers’ e-editions. Speaking of Steve McGarry – he returned to KidTown today after handing it over to Luke McGarry for June. I always thought Bob Scott used actual newspaper Sunday […]
It was good news today as GoComics/Andrews McMeel has heard the pleas of comics fans and restored their Sunday comics to the full three tier format or title panels to most of their strips and panels. Comics that have full original content making up the top tier of their comics all seem to be posted […]
The Born Loser, Frank and Ernest, Calvin and Hobbes, Frazz, Bizarro/Bizarfield, Tom the Dancing Bug, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Big Nate, Eye Lie Popeye, Mutts and, of course, more.The Born Loser archive at GoComics only goes back to 1994, so those of you who didn’t see the debut strip from May 10, 1965 on […]
We have had a couple Advance Locals (MLive Media and The Post-Standard) inform us of their coming revisions to the comics pages with Jim Glick, Director of Enterprise Content & Design for Print at Advance Local, giving further details in comments at both items linked above.Now The Cleveland Plain Dealer/cleveland.com has given their readers a […]
Gonna look today at a couple of books that will be part of my holiday shopping, starting with this inspiring combination of nutritional musings and cartoons about food.”Eat Drink Vote” is a collaboration between nutritionist Marion Nestle and about 40 cartoonists under the aegis of the Cartoonist Group, with more than 250 cartoons illustrating her […]