Comic Strip Roll Call: Dick Tracy, Molly and the Bear, Gil Thorp, Nancy, The Phantom, The New Adventures of Queen Vitoria, The Gumps, Mutt and Jeff, Gasoline Alley, Ignatz Mouse and Krazy Kat, Happy Hooligan, and The Yellow Kid in Hogan’s Alley.With Matthew K. Manning and Howie Noel‘s six week turn as guest creators on […]
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 […]
A set of British First World War Campaign medals have been nicknamed after cartoon characters.From The Great War 1914-1918: Pip, Squeak and Wilfred are the affectionate names given to the three WW1 campaign medals — The 1914 Star or 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal respectively. These medals were primarily awarded to the […]
It was good news today as GoComics/Andrews McMeel has heard the pleas of comics fans and restored their Sunday comics to the full three tier format or title panels to most of their strips and panels. Comics that have full original content making up the top tier of their comics all seem to be posted […]
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 […]
Comic strip and comic book cartoonist Hy Eisman has passed away. Hyman (Hy) Eisman March 27, 1927 – March 27, 2025The Joe Kubert School, where Hy had been a teacher from 1976 to 2019, shared the sad news: It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of an incredibe artist, and a dear […]
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 […]
Breaking Cat People NewsTaking a break from breaking cat news is Breaking Cat News getting into breaking people news this week. People news involves those in control of our lives and governments, and Georgia Dunn goes there: Georgia leads off the comments by telling her readers why: For folks not loving a strip touching on […]
(Banner by Johnny Walbridge, who, as noted yesterday, went on to be a Disney writer and animator.)We’ll start our look back at 1924 with a strip I didn’t know existed, possibly because it was only around for about three years. Ring Lardner was a popular writer and this was something of an extension of his […]
The first Daylight Saving Time changeover was March 30, 1918, back when photographic set pieces like this, featuring small children in hastily-made costumes, were a fading but still present part of newspaper graphics. One complication was that the next day was Easter, but the good people of Harrisburg, PA, didn’t have to worry about missing services, […]
Looks like Dennis and I were on the same page, featuring Comics of Christmas Past, but, as usual, I’ll be more long-winded.Let’s turn the calendar back to 1925, which isn’t a round number but was astonishingly better than 1920. I don’t know what happened in those intervening five years, but newspapers suddenly exploded with comic […]
A century ago, July 4 fell on a Sunday, which provides some long-form comics. Oddly enough, it provides only a limited amount of holiday hoopla, and I didn’t find a lot of Independence Day graphics to brighten up the place.Instead, Page Ones were covering the Democratic Convention, which, as this Boston Globe Extra explains, was […]
Christmas a century ago, as we’ll see, featured many of the same holiday comic strip themes as today, but, as Gustavo Bronstrup’s Christmas cartoon suggests, there was a different tone in a nation barely six weeks out of the Great War. As E. A. Bushnell reminded readers, the end of the war was not the end […]
Since Memorial Day cartoons seem predictable, I thought I’d go back a century and see what they were doing then, when it was still called Decoration Day. E.A. Bushnell kicks off our coverage. The US was in the middle of the World War, on the verge of having a million men in Europe and not far […]
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 […]