Dennis the Menace celebrates its 75th anniversary today, first appearing on March 12, 1951. Success was virtually instantaneous. Created by Hank Ketcham the daily panel was so successful that the syndicate added a Sunday page less than a year after the daily panel’s debut. Ketcham continued the daily panel, others did the Sunday strips. Later […]
As Linda Matchan of The Boston Globe tells it (or here): Peter Hotton, a beloved editor at The Boston Globe for half a century and the writer of a popular column, was a newspaperman of the old school. Hotton loved Globe history. He loved old news photos. He loved bringing his kids to Morrissey Boulevard […]
Response to a post of vintage comics a few days ago made me think about doing that more often. The question became how to select a date, and the answer was to key into some historic anniversary in an interesting year. So, today, we bid a happy birthday to Reinhold Richard Priebus, born on this […]