I love the drawing mistakes on old comic book covers. Here (above) a tiny car drops off a dead man who, if he were standing upright, woul...

I thought I'd put up a blog about Topffer, the Swiss artist who's said to have invented the comic strip. All the illustrations in...

Haw! From Allan Holtz's "Stripper's Guide" blog (link in the sidebar) comes yet another roundup of little-known comic s...

From approximately 100 years ago, it's George Herriman again! I just can't get enough of this guy. I confess that I've only r...

I just visited Allan Holtz's site, "Stripper's Guide," and discovered that comics historian Bill Blackbeard died on Mar...

Some of what I have to say here I've said before, but great truths bear repeating. Besides, this gives me an excuse to put up s...

Indisputably in my opinion, the golden age of newspaper comics occurred in the two decades before WWI. It was an era before formulas becam...