Opus helps Hobbes find Calvin
Bloom County cartoonist Berke Breathed helps Hobbes find Calvin. Breathed shares his work on Facebook but it’s public and you can see it here.
10 Comics I liked in 2019
Krampus has passed you over and Yule Cat has decided you’re fine. You took Père Fouettard in a fight and Knecht Ruprecht was no match for you. Your feats of strength were peerless at Festivus. You’ve got the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa down. And I am optimistic about […]
“I have seen Olivia Jaimes, the artist behind the new Nancy“
Rocko Jerome has seen and listened to a Cartoon Crossroads Columbus interview/panelette with Olivia Jaimes, the writer and artist on Nancy. He shares his notes and impressions here. “Olivia spoke about how the function of Nancy as a comic is problem solving. There’s a challenge of some kind, […]
Interview with Cathy Guisewite
At The Cut, Rachel Syme interviews cartoonist Cathy Guisewite. “I also told her that, as we sat in her country-chic breakfast nook in Studio City, California, discussing the legacy of Cathy and the world Guisewite created, I could not stop thinking about my own mother, a highly functional […]
The Perils of Little Orphan Annie
Smithsonian Magazine discusses the dangers to children parents saw in Little Orphan Annie. “These days, when Annie is known mainly as the little girl who sang brightly about ‘Tomorrow,’ it may be hard to picture her radio series as the Grand Theft Auto of its day. But the […]
Sally Forth at a Kaiju Theme Park
That time the characters of daily comic strip Sally Forth went to a kaiju theme park. (Thanks, Brian!)
The Cultural Gutter 