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One cannot understate the influence Wiley Miller has had on newspaper comics and in ways far beyond artistic style.

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 […]

 In 1957 Mell Lazarus got his Miss Peach comic strip into newspapers. The next year Mell joined the National Cartoonists Society.Yearly dues in January 1958 were $35, yearly dues now, in 2019, are $225. (The inflation calculator puts that 1958 $35 at $307.86 in today’s dollars.)You can join the NCS for less than Mell did […]

I’m burned out on politics, so I’m going to limit myself to things that simply triggered memories and let you decide if they’re universally funny or not. For instance, Sherman’s Lagoon is starting a new story arc, so you can be pleased that I let you know about that, even though tuning in on a Monday is […]

A couple of weeks ago, I dug out my copy of Classic Theater to re-read “Servant of Two Masters,” the play I was in as a college junior back in the spring of 1970, and found this Miss Peach tucked inside, acting as a bookmark.My apartment that year had a wall with various things attached, the only specific […]

Well, back to the real world, but, before saying goodbye Columbus (bet they never heard that one before), some deserving leftovers that didn’t fit in the previous entries but were certainly worthy of mention and may push someone just past the balance point into deciding to come out here.And while I wonder — in the […]