On April 17, 1926 Editor and Publisher celebrated the 32nd anniversary of newspaper comics with a comic supplement featuring specially created comic strips for the 1926 Newspaper Convention. The contributing cartoonist were Edward Grinham, Merrill Blosser, Burt Thomas, Frank King, Sidney Smith, Frank Godwin, J. R. Williams, Rube Goldberg, C. W. Kahles, Frank Willard, Bud […]
Rea Irvin’s The Smythes; F. Opper, R. & G. Dirks and J. Swinnerton jam; the Leffingwells’ Little Joe; McDonnell’s Mutts and Schulz’s Peanuts; and Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Dietrich and Flash Gordon makes some three. Rea Irvin was The New Yorker’s first art editor and creator of the magazine’s iconic mascot, the butterfly enthusiast Eustace Tilly. […]
From Little Orphan Annie (Harold Gray) to The Toxic Avenger (Matt Bors) with Molly and the Bear (Bob and Vicki Scott), Spongebob Squarepant (U.S. Postal Service), Chris Ware (USPS again), Barbara Shermund (Liza Donnelly), and Goofus and Gallant (Garry Myers and Marion Hull Hammel)From Little Orphan to Just Plain AnnieA few days over 101 years […]
A selection of 4th of July comics strips from 2025 and 1925.
Thomas Yeates debuted yesterday as the new artist for Prince Valiant. I tend to be more prone to dissect stories than go into detail on artwork, but the art has always been a critical element in Prince Valiant.Yeates (I find) has drawn swords before, not like Mercutio but in the sense relevant to this blog. […]