Anniversary Logos Because of Facebook’s weird algorithms I didn’t see the Blondie at 95 poster for the comic strip’s September 8, 2025 95th anniversary celebration until just recently. The Phantom at 90 poster comes from the Chronicle Chamber website. The Phantom’s 90th anniversary will arrive on February 17, 2026. The Spokane Spokesman-Review has updated their […]
A roundup of cartoon and comic items finally being posted featuring Harry Bliss and You Can Never Die, Paul Kirchner and the bus, Jeff Kinney and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the disassembly of Garry B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury, the editorial cartoons of The Simi Valley Acorn that are not editorial cartoons, and Heritage Auction is […]
Basil and Monte Wolverton; Flash Gordon by Alex, Jim, Dan, and a bunch of others; public domain Popeye and Olive; a hint of next winter’s Doonesbury special art; plus actual comic strips and panels from this week. Let’s start with the news for the indexers. This week sees the King Features Weekly Service dropping Dan […]
Searching for Hy Eisman at newspapers.com Newspapers.com doesn’t carry the Newark News so I can’t get It Happened in New Jersey from there, but here’s a February 20, 1955 story from the New York Sunday News about Hy’s comic being exhibited. After years of ghosting comic strips for Alfred Andriola (Kerry Drake) and Vern Greene […]
Starting out with… Proof of Publishment The twice weekly Olive & Popeye comic strip has been around since 2022, but now there is proof that it is being published in at least one newspaper via the King Features Weekly Service (KFWS). The Sidney (Nebraska) Sun-Telegraph comics page for their March 6, 2025 issue shows the […]