Alex Hallatt may have just been going for the pun in today’s Arctic Circle, but it struck me another way, which is one of the perils of cartooning.In 2007, I wrote a newspaper serial story for the New York News Association, a piece of historical fiction set in New York City in the 1890s and […]
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’m going to start off with the trivial, personal stuff, and, as I’ve said before, I could run all of Terri Libenson’s “College Search” cartoons from Pajama Diaries, because either she and I have some unique mojo or she’s simply nailing this one for everyone. I suspect the latter but would believe the former.I will […]
I’ve been feeling a little burned out lately and thought I’d take a break and play around in the files. Having no particular goal in mind beyond that, I decided to follow the example of our Canadian cousins and celebrate the 150th Anniversary of our country, so here are some comics from July 4, 1926. The […]
Nothing, alas, ever turns out to be quite as cool as you thought it was going to be, Keefe.Except Yellowstone, but nothing in daily life. However, what is cool is that cartoonists like Keith Knight have introduced being a dad as a normal, interesting, challenging but, again, normal part of life. Your kids may occasionally be frustrating, […]