Ten years ago erstwhile Flash Gordon cartoonist Jim Keefe begins drawing Sally Forth. Okay so we’re a couple weeks late marking the anniversary, but we blame Jim himself who didn’t remind us of the occasion until today.How quaint it seems that 75 years ago the concern was comic books endangering our schoolchildren.Judith Crist, for the […]
Bill Watterson, Charles Schulz, Frank Engli, Alan Foster, and more.News of new Bill Watterson material prompts Colin McEvoy at Biography to recall what the cartoonist has done between the end of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip and the impending The Mysteries. Needless to say, Watterson’s fans are overjoyed about his first major book since […]
Some cartoonist and comic strip histories from during and before our lifetime. Jeffrey Lindenblatt returns to Stripper’s Guide with the 1991 stats for comic strips and panels that appeared in his survey of 300 newspapers (down to 268 dailies for 1991). In the Top 30 spots, Calvin and Hobbes continued its climb moving one spot […]
From 100 years ago is an article on the then-current comics scene from the February 1923 Vanity Fair. THE largest group, dealing with married life, reaches its lowest level of painfulness in the series “For Better For Worse”, by Tad, and perhaps its highest level in Briggs’ series “Mr. and Mrs”. It includes such varied […]