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Mandrake the Magician cartoonist Fred Fredricks passes

Alan Gardner9 years ago9 years ago11 mins

Sad news from King Features who reports that Mandrake the Magician cartoonist Fred Fredericks recently passed. I’m not finding wide-spread…

Steven Rowe on The Gannett 34September 24, 2023
My local Gannett paper ran their list of future comics. Removing 8 from the page from 20 down to 12.…
Rob Morris on The Gannett 34September 24, 2023
So, they couldn’t put a group of story/serial comics as an optio?!? Way to go KFS. Nice of you to…
Rich Furman on CSotD: Sunday PotpourriSeptember 24, 2023
I think that Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis discusses this and the way it set the stage for the Ayatollahs in a…
Mike Peterson on The Gannett 34September 24, 2023
To which I would add that, when I redid the comics page at a paper where I worked, I found…
Mike Peterson on The Gannett 34September 24, 2023
The interesting factor here is that the Chosen Few are from both AMS and KFS, which suggests (I have no…
Mike Peterson on CSotD: Sunday PotpourriSeptember 24, 2023
Going back to Allen Dulles for foreign relations seems like going back to McKinley for the annexations of the Spanish-American…
D. D. Degg on CSotD: The Company We ChooseSeptember 24, 2023
Much as I'd like to take credit for improving The Daily Cartoonist with the addition of Mike Peterson, it was…
shermanj on CSotD: Sunday PotpourriSeptember 24, 2023
Dear Mike, appreciate your insights on the Iran dance. Do I remember correctly that we (u.s.) started the decades long…
shermanj on CSotD: The Company We ChooseSeptember 24, 2023
Dear D. D. Degg, thanks for the nice 'RHB' (Real Human Being) response. Thanks for your work keeping the S.S…
AJ on CSotD: Sunday PotpourriSeptember 24, 2023
American news media be like "Yes, this doctor discovered a cure for cancer after many decades of research, but won't…