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December 25, 1975* — Older Strips # — Special Materials

Cartoonists swipe file? Al Capp and Jesus? Webtoon a non-profit?JuxtapositionJuxtapositions, like the above, happen frequently, colleague Mike Peterson occasionally features them in his columns. He could feature them every day if he so wished. But it seems that controversy has arisen over just such a comparison of cartoons. Two of the cartoons won awards this […]

Sadie Hawkins DayNovember means Sadie Hawkins Day and Lesley Kennedy at History.com writes of the whys and wherefores. “I would always begin my stories with ‘What if…?’” Capp once said, according to Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary by Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen. “What if there were a special day in Dogpatch in […]

While Bill Hinds seems to be the permanent cartoonist for Marmaduke now, Kit Mills has stepped in for Rachel Merrill as the Gil Thorp “guest artist” for this week at least. We’ll see how long the guest stays. I can only guess that Rachel needed some time to work on her and Henry Barajas‘ Death […]

The Failure of G. B. Trudeau My childhood dream, like the popularity of print newspapers, inevitably faded. I had long been bewitched by the comics pages folded into each edition of the Times-Picayune, the newspaper with which I grew up in my suburb of New Orleans. The pages stood out because of the implicit respect […]

This week Greg and Karen Evans are bothering me. I’m used to King Features and Comics Kingdom updating the copyright dates on their reruns. And at least Patrick McDonnell erases the original copyright year without replacing it with the current year. I do give Greg and Karen credit for giving fans a heads-up. A couple […]

Earlier The Will Eisner Awards Hall of Fame judges named their inductees for automatic inclusion into the 2025 Hall of Fame. They have now released the names of 18 nominees for fans to vote on for inclusion. The Eisner Awards Hall of Fame judges have chosen 18 nominees from whom voters will select 6 to […]

Marla’s right. It’s a holiday and we should all be closed.Well, what we really should be doing is having Thanksgiving dinner Matt Wuerker style.*sigh*But having worked alternate holidays in the newsroom, I’m still of the opinion that the show must go on, so what I’m going to do is give you the comics and let […]

I was looking back at coverage of the Civil Rights Act a half-century ago and, well, got distracted. We’ll get to the “50 Years Ago” part eventually, but first let’s look at what you’d have looked at if you’d sat down with your paper on April 13, 1914 (This will be a good day to […]