These hindsights, some hysterical and some historical, will remain, permanently fastened to this website, for your present delection and future rumination. Here’s a rundown of what’s here with the date we posted the item:
CELEBRATING A HALF CENTURY OF DOONESBURY (June 6, 2022)
By Looking at the Beginnings of Trudeau’s Strip
REMEMBERING PLAYBOY & HEF (April 12, 2022)
In Memorium
BAM! WOW! COMIC BOOKS AREN’T JUST FOR KIDS ANYMORE (March 7, 2022)
The Importance of June 16th to James Joyce(January 30, 2022)
And a New Graphic Biography of the Famously Obtuse Writer
A SHORT INSIGHTFUL HISTORY OF THE WEEK (December 19, 2021)
A CENTURY OF GINGER MEGGS (November 13, 2021)
We Celebrate on the Anniversary Date
APRIL FOOLISHNESS (October 16, 2021)
The Great April Fool’s Day
COMICS
SWITCHEROO of 1997
ROGER
ARMSTRONG REVISITED (September 25, 2021)
A Champion Cartoonist Talks Cartooning
SCRAWLING EDITOONS AND POP’S PLACE (August 28, 2021)
When Your
Surname is Rawls and Your Initials are S and C
SHOES AND
JOHN Q. PUBLIC (July
26, 2021)
The History and Biography of Both
Bob Montana’s Archie Newspaper Comic Strip (June 12, 2021)
And Who, Actually, Invented Archie
FRANK THORNE, RED SONJA, GHITA—GONE (April 28, 2021)
But Never Forgotten
BLACK COMIC STRIP ANNIVERSARIES (February 15, 2021)
JumpStart and Herb and Jamaal Both Hit (and Pass Through) 30
“Naked” Is Dutch for “Nude” (January 18, 2021)
The Early History of the Dutch Treaters and Their Cartoonists
WHO WAS LEV GLEASON? (November 20, 2020)
A New Biography of the Illusive Comicbook Publisher
FRANK CHO AND THE ART OF LIBERTY MEADOWS (October 16, 2020)
A History and Appreciation
FAY KING, PRIZE-FIGHTING CARTOONIST (August 2020)
The Greatest Woman Cartoonist, Caricaturist and ‘Kidder’ in the World
—and She Could Fight Like a Bobcat
— And Where Did She Disappear To?
WHY MANKOFF LEFT THE NEW YORKER (July 11, 2020)
And What That Was Really About
HUMORAMA AND ME (June 13, 2020)
A Nostalgic Meandering
The Last of the Legendary Golden Age
Another Oeuvre of My Long Lost Youth
STEVE DITKO, STAN LEE AND THE CREATION OF SPIDER-MAN (March 20, 2020)
And What That Tells Us About Their Creative Process
HERB MIGNERY, COWBOY CARTOONIST (February 2020)
And Master of Cartooning Horses
WILLIAM GROPPER (January 2020)
Cartoonist for the Downtrodden
Barney Google Is 100 Years Old (December 3, 2019)
And We Join John Rose in Celebrating the Occasion
TRUMPERIES & DRAWING THE TRUMPET (November 5, 2019)
Also Rabbits and Penguins
HOW TO DRAW COMICS (September 30, 219)
The Instructional Books of Yore
CLASSROOM COMEDY (August 2019)
What Goes For Big Laughs Among English Teachers
THE WORLD OF COMIC ART (June 23, 2019)
Looking Back through the Lens of a Pioneering Journal of Comic Art and Caricature
CARTOONS MAGAZINE (May 25, 2019)
A Historic Periodical, 1912-1921
SEXISM IN SUPERHERO FUNNYBOOKS (March 14, 2019)
Where’s the Junk, Man?
ERIC STANTON: MASTER FETISH ARTIST (February 2019)
And Steve Ditko and the Creation of Spider-Man
FRANQUIN, GASTON LaGAFFE AND DIE LAUGHING (January 2019)
Biography, Book Reviews, and Some History
THE LIFE AND DEDICATION OF ART YOUNG (November 26, 2018)
An Impassioned Cartoonist of Uncompromising Principle
Newly Revised and Up-dated
CARTOONING THE ROARING TWENTIES (October 20, 2018)
Part Three: January 1926 - December 19258
R. CRUMB AND THE BIRTH OF UNDERGROUND COMIX (October 3, 2018)
A 50th Anniversary Celebration: Part Two
R. CRUMB AND THE BIRTH OF UNDERGROUND COMIX (August 15, 2018)
A 50th Anniversary Celebration
Steve Ditko, 1927 - 2018 (July 21, 2018)
The Uncompromised
EDITORIAL CARTOONING WITH ROB ROGERS (July 14, 2018)
An Antique (Albeit Still Informative) Interview
CARTOONING THE ROARING TWENTIES (June 19, 2018)
Part Two: January 1923 - December 1925
CARTOONING THE ROARING TWENTIES (May 12, 2018)
Part One: January 1920 - December 1922
CURTAIN FALLS ON ERNIE/PIRANHA CLUB COMIC STRIP (March 28, 2018)
Bud Grace’s Wicked Cultural Satire Ends 30-year Run
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE HAPPY HARV (March 14, 2018)
Harv was asked to respond to a series of questions.
MORT WALKER AND BEETLE BAILEY (January 29, 2018)
A Short Historical Appreciation of A Landmark Strip and Its Creator
DOGS—AND CATS—IN CARTOONS ABOUT HOOKERS
A GUIDED TOUR (January 17, 2018)
A Jam of Tarts, An Anthology of Pros, A Fanfare of Strumpets
and Barenekkidwimmin Galore
ANDY CAPP IS 60 THIS YEAR (December 10, 2017)
How A Stereotype Become Human
THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF THE “COMIC CON” (November 30, 2017)
How Comic Conventions Began and Helped Shape the Industry
HEFNER DIED. IN HIS BED, OF COURSE (October 31, 2017)
Hugh M. Hefner, 1926 - 2017
OUR LAST SIGHT OF EISNER’S SPIRIT
September 2017
Will Eisner and the Invention of the Spirit (August 26, 2017)
And of the Comic Book Form Itself
THE EISNER-IGER SHOP (July 14, 2017)
How It Came To Be and How It Operated
ANOTHER CONVERSATION WITH WILL EISNER (June 12, 2017)
And with Shelly Moldoff about Bob Kane
EASTER AND OTHER RABBITS (May 2017)
A Short History of Origins and of My College Cartooning Career
(The Latter, in Celebration of Completing the 18th Year of Rancid Raves)
A CONVERSATION WITH WILL EISNER (April 15, 2017)
The State of the Art and Other Thoughts
TWO DECADES AS NEW YORKER CARTOON EDITOR (March 18, 2017)
The Incomparable Mankoff
HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRY GADFLY AND GUIDE (February 2017)
With Revealing Personal Testimony Appended
GLUYAS WILLIAMS (December 2016)
Master of Line and Shape and Subject
GETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT. OR CAN WE? (November 26, 2016)
Mutt and Jeff Aren’t Gay, Are They?
THE UNFORGETTABLE JANE (September 30, 2016)
Who Seldom Blushed Regardless of Provocation
Unsung Al Smith, Record-Holding Unknown Cartoonist (August 30, 2016)
And His World-famous Iconic Comic Strip
Alex Raymond and the Right Stuff (July 2016)
Outcault and the Yellow Kid (June 27, 2016)
Laying the Foundation for Newspaper Comic Strips
Morrill Goddard (May 15, 2016)
Godfather of the “Comics”
REST IN PEACE AND ACCLAMATION, BARD (April 13, 2016)
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the Death of Willie Wagstaff
QUICK, HENRY—THE FLIT! (March 11, 2016)
The Flitting Life of Dr. Seuss
THE CREATION OF SAINT JEFF (February 15, 2015)
Or: My Bid for Immortality
REMEMBERING PEDRO (January 17, 2016)
And Reamer Keller, Lowell Hess, Dik Browne, Ed Nofsiger, and Tom Eaton
Will Eisner’s Vision and the Future of Comics (December 19, 2015)
The Graphic Novel: Mature Themes and Marketing Problems
WILL EISNER AND THE ARTS AND INDUSTRY OF CARTOONING (December 12, 2015)
Inventing Instructional Comics
Krazy Love (November 13, 2015)
How George Herriman’s Metaphysical Comedy Evolved
The Economics of Comics (October 2015)
How Money Influenced the Art
THE MAKING OF THE WESTERN MYTHOLOGY (September 14, 2015)
And the Two Frauds Who Helped It Along
IS RELIGION THE PROBLEM? (August 8, 2015)
A Question for Our Times
Morris Weiss, Mickey Finn and the Palooka (July 15, 2015)
A Visit with One of the Most Durable of the Laborers in Cartooning’s Vineyards
PETER ARNO AND THE UNTRAMMELED LIFE (June 2015)
The Roaring Twenties and the Essence of The New Yorker
Revisiting the Maturing of the Comic Book:
A Quick Eccentrially Skewed Tour of The Crucial 1970-1990s
FROM FIGURE DRAWING TO STORYTELLING (May 3, 2015)
From Corporate Creation to Individual Expression
The Passing of a Giant (April 2015)
Roy Doty, 1922-2015
THE TRUE HISTORY OF EUSTACE TILLEY (March 2015)
And of Other Fictional and Non-fictional “Characters” at the New Yorker
Picturing Hellboy (December 18, 2014)
A 20th Anniversary Appreciation
When a Dog Was Art (November 21, 2014)
Clifford McBride and the Immortal Napoleon
Winnie the WAC (October 6, 2014)
And the Other Adventures of Her Creator, Vic Herman
Table Talk and the Birth of Modern Magazine Cartooning (August 28, 2014)
An Incidental History of the Early Years of Punch Magazine
and of Drawing for the Block
NIPPLES, BARED AND EXPOSED (July 2014)
A Hitherto Suppressed Essay on Booby Fruit
OTTO SOGLOW AND THE LITTLE KING (June 25, 2014)
The Silent Runs Deep
(with an Apostrophe to Naked Ladies in Their Baths)
Understanding Barnaby (May 9, 2014)
—“the most important addition to American arts and letters”
VIEWING LIFE THROUGH A TWINKLE (April 25, 2014)
The Life and Art of Eldon Dedini
Gus Arriola and the Comic Strip That Never Was (March 29, 2014)
Almost. Until Now.
BILL WATTERSON SPEAKS (March 1, 2014)
The Cheapening of the Comics and How (and Why) To Avoid It
Morrie Turner (February 15, 2014)
To Say the Name Is Both Eulogy and Tribute
AN AGED INTERVIEW WITH YOUR HOST (January 20, 2014)
Namely, the Equally Antique R.C. Harvey
A Pretty Girl Is Not a Malady (December 30, 2013)
The Evolution of Formula and the Celebrated Graphic Style of Cliff Sterrett
WHO DISCOVERED SUPERMAN? (November 30, 2013)
Rummaging Through a Host of Claimants
Remembering Clay Geerdes (October 20, 2013)
Championing Comix and Rational Thought
EUGENE ZIMMERMAN, THE GREAT “ZIM” (September 2013)
America’s First Cartoonist
Frank Willard and A Touch of Moonshine (August 31, 2013)
Lowbrow Comedy for the Masses
GEORGE BAKER AND THE SAD SACK (August 2013)
And A Few Others from Yank, the Army Weekly
Cecil Jensen, Elmo, and Colonel M’Cosmic (June 15, 2013)
The First Editoonist to Simultaneously Draw a Comic Strip
Withdrawing the Color Line (May 5, 2013).
E. Simms Campbell, the First Famous Black Cartoonist
The Countryboy Cartoonist of National Fame (March 14, 2013)
Abe Martin and Kin Hubbard Explained
HUBRIS AND CHUTZPAH (January 29, 2013).
How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief
Stan Lynde, the Western, and the Spirit of Independence (December 28, 2012)
Rich O’Shay, Latigo, The Price of Fame, and Pardners
DEAN OF AMERICAN CARTOONISTS (November 24, 2012).
Gentleman Adventurer and Inventor of the Slow Ball
IT'S NOT MY FAULT (October 20, 2012)
Apologia pro Vita Sue
Or—The Confessions of a Comics Junkie
PERPETUAL BLONDIE (September 2012)
Chic Young’s Forever American Family
The Story of Zero (August 13, 2012)
Or, How the Weekend Warrior Came to Naught
Or, Yet Again Another Incredibly Arduous Self-indulgent Effusion
FIDDLEFOOT: A COMIC STRIP THAT NEVER WAS, ALMOST (July 10, 2012)
A Shamelessly Self-indulgent Spasm Demonstrating
How the Happy Harv Invented a Comic Strip and Failed To Get It Syndicated
A LOVE LETTER TO GEORGE PRICE AND GAG CARTOONING (June 15, 2012)
And a Nostalgic Saunter through the Golden Ages of Magazine Cartooning
Fostering the Adventure Strip (May 2012)
With Tarzan and Prince Valiant
John Severin, 1921 - 2012, RIP
HOW THE HAPPY HARV FREELANCED CARTOONS (February 29, 2012)
More Critiquing Antiques While Extolling The Dubious Virtues of Girlie Cartoons
CRITIQUING THE ANTIQUE HAPPY HARV (February 6, 2012)
No Surprise: The Critic Likes His Own Cartoons
THE REAL CAPTAIN EASY (January/February 2012)
And Where Roy Crane Found Him
ONE GOOD APPLE PROVES A BARREL’S WORTH (January 2012)
Solving for Once and All the Ostensible Mystery of Mary Worth’s Origin
INSIDE THE 24-HOUR COMIC (Thanksgiving 2011)
The Ordeal and the Ecstasy
The Blackhawk Mysteries (November 2011)
Will Eisner, Chuck Cuidera, and Reed Crandall
SIGNE WILKINSON ON THE ATTACK (October 2011)
Editorial Cartooning with a Vengeance
Griffy and Zippy (July 21, 2011)
Forty and Counting
Basil Wolverton and Lena the Hyena (May 2011)
More than A Master Drawer of Ugly Women
THE MAN WHO SAVED THE COMICS (April 25, 2001)
Bill Blackbeard Checks Out at 84
Chas Addams with Macabre (April 20ll)
And a Dash of the Diabolical
DICK LOCHER’S DICK TRACY (March 2011)
Life Backstage with an Icon
ANOTHER REDHEADED ENDING (January 2011)
Brenda Starr and Her Flamboyant Creator, Dale Messick
The Lawrence Welk of Cartoonists (November 2010)
Ernie, Nancy, and the Bushmiller Society
THE CHAMPION BAD GUY (October 2010)
The Worst of the Worst Was the Absolute Worst—Iron JawBill Hume and Babysan (September 2010)
Unknown and, Until Now, Unheralded
Inkslinging and Opinion Mongering with Rob Rogers (July 2010)
Political Cartooning from Pittsburgh
Julie
Larson=s Dinette Set Is All of Us (June 2010)
Life in
Suburbia is Forever Inane and Banal
THE ORPHAN’S EPIC (May 17, 2010)
How Annie and Her Dog Sandy Lasted for Almost 86 Years
Tales of the Founding of the National Cartoonists Society (April 8, 2010)
How It All Came To Be
Lulu, Henry, Hazel, and Marge (January 3, 2010)
Pop-up Feminism at the Back of the Post
BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH (December 2009)
Billy DeBeck, Fred Lasswell, and John Rose
BRINGING
UP FATHER AND THE REST OF THE COMIC PAGE (October 2009)
Jiggs
and George McManus
CARTOONING,
COMIX, COMICS, THE CLASSICS, AND THE KITCHEN SINK (September 2009)
Denis
Kitchen, Elder Statesman
FATHERHOOD
AND THE OFFSPRING THEREOF (August 2009)
Frederick
Burr Opper and Happy Hooligan
You’re
In the Army Now (July 2009)
Private
Breger and His Creator Dave
A
Plethora of Phoney Firsts in Creator’s Rights (June 2009)
But
Mostly Palmer Cox and His Diminutive Brownies
THE
GREAT TRIO COMPLETE AT LAST (May 2009)
Gorgeous
Biography of Alex Raymond
Art
Bouthillier (April 2009)
And
the Brutal albeit Beatific Truth about Freelancing Magazine Cartoons
OF
CARTOONING, RUBENS, AND ADAM'S RIB (March 22,
2009)
Girlie
Cartoons and Barenekidwimmin
AWOL
Wally (February 22, 2009)
The
Most Famous Doughboy You Never Heard About
BEETLE
BAILEY GOES BEETLING ON, FIFTY-EIGHT AND COUNTING (December
29, 2008)
A
Short Historical Appreciation of Mort Walker’s Landmark Strip
Going
Old in Gasoline Alley (November 23, 2008)
Ninety
Years And Counting
SWIN,
ZIM AND OLLIE: A BRACE OF OLD MASTERS AND A NEW ONE (October 5, 2008)
Rare
Biography and Antique Racism in Cartooning
PLAYBOY’S
FIRST CARTOONIST (September 2008)
What
Really Happened When Hugh M. Hefner Was Editor of Shaft
SERGIO
ARAGONES (July 20, 2008)
The
Art of Pantomime Cartooning
Jim
Davis and His Fat Feline (June 2008)
Celebrate
an Anniversary
Limners of the
Immortal Toad: Disney, Rackham, Shepard, and Plessix—
Cartoonists All, in
the Wind in the Willows (May 10, 2008)
Words into Pictures:
Visualizing Literary Works, Warts and Gnarls
WHAT
JACK KIRBY DID (April 13, 2008)
Besides
Captain America, Boy Commandos, Young Romance, Boy’s Ranch,
Fighting American, Challengers of the Unknown, Fantastic Four, Thor,
Hulk, X-Men, Fourth World
Howard
the Duck (February 29, 2008)
A
Wise-quacking Waterfowl That Showed How Adult Comic Books Can Be
Ambassador
Extraordinaire (February 8, 2008)
Gus
Arriola, 1917-2008
Mistress
of Adolescent Angst, Girlish Laughter Division (February
2, 2008)
Marty
Links, 1917-2008
T.K.
RYAN AND THE TUMBLIN’ TUMBLEWEEDS (January
13, 2008)
A
Classic Western Satire
CARTOONING IN
A
Conversation with Pat Bagley
November
2007: Celebrating the Centennial of the Daily Newspaper Comic Strip (
Mutt, Jeff
and Their Precursing Creator, Bud Fisher
BUCK BROWN
AND HIS INSATIABLE GRANDMOTHER (October 2007)
One of
Playboy’s Original Line-up of Cartooners in Color
Cartoonist As God (
John Held,
Jr.,
Creator of an Age
Remembering Clay Geerdes (July 23, 2007)
Photographic Chronicler of Comix
Underground
THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (July 7, 2007)
The Summer of Love, Robert Crumb, and
the Birth of Underground Comix
How Jews Created the Four Color
Fantasies (June 15, 2007)
If Jews Created Comics, Are Comics,
Then, Jewish?
Irwin Caplan, 1919-2007 (May 2007)
Advertising Cartoonist
It’s the
Pictures, Stupid (April 23, 2007)
Not to Mention Bondage and Grecian Urns
WERTHAM REVISITED (March 25, 2007)
Seduction in the Eighties
DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN A REVIEW AND A
CRITIQUE (February 2007)
Lost Cause
THE DANISH DOZEN & FREEDOM OF
EXPRESSION IN THE PRESS
(February
12, 2007)
A Summary of the Events of the Winter
of 2006
Top One Hundred Print Cartoon Creations
of the Century (January 2007)
Compiled for the Comic Buyer’s Guide
Somewhere Near the Beginning of 2000
Bill
Amend at Ten and Nearly Twenty
Slaphappy Heroicism
(November 20, 2006)
Funnyman: A Good Last Act
Michelle Urry, Playboy, and Gag
Cartooning (October 23, 2006)
A Meandering Conversation and a Fond
Farewell
Wild ’n’ Woolly American Mythology (October 2006)
A Ramblin’ Look at Cowboyin’ in Strips
Captain Marvel: The Big Red Rip-off? (September 18, 2006)
A Short History of Fawcett and Its Most
Famous Creation
Setting the
Fashion with the Patterson Girl (August 2006)
The Varied
Career of Russell Patterson
For the Mickey (July 10, 2006)
The Lively Comic Art of Arnold Roth
Milt Gross (May 1, 2006)
Banana Oil and the First
Graphic Novel?
Max Eastman and The Masses (April 3, 2006)
An Lost Moment in the History of
Cartooning
If Good Comics Can Have Good Effects
upon Their Readers,
Why Can’t Bad Comics Have Bad
Effects?(March 2006)
OR, Wasn’t Wertham Right After All?
How Much Did Batman Knock-off Dick
Tracy? (January 2006)
Were the Picturesque Batcrooks Inspired
by Chester Gould’s Gallery of Grotesques?
At Swords’ Point: Humor As Weapon (December 19, 2005)
The Life and Ordeals of a Woman
Cartoonist
Defining
Comics Again (December 12, 2005)
Another
in the Long List of Unnecessarily Complicated Definitions
Smokestack
Foo-mania (November 21, 2005)
The Life and Notary Sojac of Bill
Holman
Getting Our Pornograph Fixed (November 7, 2005)
A Fond Appreciation of Eight-Page
Dalliances So Long Ago Abandoned
Mickey Mouse
and Walt Disney and Animated Cartooning (October 31, 2005)
Written to Celebrate Mickey’s 75th in 2003 but, Until Now, Never Published
Mark Twain at the Drawingboard (October 23, 2005)
H.T. Webster, A Timid Soul for the Ages
A
Stretch in the Bone Age (September 11, 2005)
The Life and Cartooning Genius of V.T. Hamlin
Smilin'
Zack Mosley's Wilder Blue Yonder (July
24, 2005)
A Madcap Dash of Cliffhanging Escapades
When Comics Weren't
for Kids (June 27, 2005)
A Speculative Essay at Resurrecting the
Past
Making the World Safe for Insanity
(May 11, 2005)
The Absurdities of Vip
Helen E. Hokinson
(March 28, 2005)
One of the New Yorker's Pace-setting Big
Four
Modesty Blaise
(February 6, 2005)
Some Further Adieu
Will
Eisner:
An Affectionate Appreciation
(
The
Unsung Sickles (October 2004)
How Noel Sickles
Developed the Chiaroscuro Technique that Milton Caniff Made Famous
Leslie
Turner, Assistant No More (October 2004)
A Second Act
as Good as the First
The New Yorker and the Single-panel
Gag Cartoon (
Willard
Mullin (
The
Champion of the Sporting Life
Fred Harman, Cowboy
Cartoonist (
Creator of Little Beaver and "You betchum, Red Ryder"
Superheroes on the
Couch (
A Psychoanalytic Speculation
Don Martin (
The Maddest One
Percy Crosby and Skippy (
The Great Peanut Butter Crime
Popeye, a Masterwork in the Medium (
Not Just a Superhero but a Superlative Comic Strip Character
The Life and Dedication of Art Young (
An Impassioned Cartoonist of Uncompromising
Principle
Defining the Graphic Novel (January 19,
2004)
Its Origins and the Pioneers Who Shaped It
The Mystique
and Mysteries of Jack Cole (November 9, 2003)
From Plastic Man to Playboy and Betsy and Me
The
Longest-running Comics (October 19, 2003)
And the Oldest
Continuously Appearing Daily Cartoon Character
The
Making of the Marvel Universe (July 20, 2003)
Kirby or Lee?
Jules
Feiffer and Autistic America (May 4, 2003)
Bill
Mauldin Fades Away (
The Old Soldier Gets a Yahtzee
Hirschfeld Has Left the Building (January 25, 2003)
A Tribute to the
Line King
Celebrating
Pogo and Walt Kelly(December
18, 2002)
A 60th Anniversary
Effusion
The
Stories of Willie Tuck (December 4, 2002)
The last live-in connection to the life and career of Milton Caniff
One
Hundred Years of American Cartooning (October 17, 2002)
A Baker’s Dozen or Two of the Top Cartoonists of the Last Century
How
Mad Came To Be (August 22, 2002)
The Birth and Evolution of a National Humor Magazine
Roy
Crane and the Adventure Strip (July 24, 2002)
A Flourish
of Trumpets
Al
Capp: Hubris and Chutzpah
Giant
Talent and Secret Sleaze
Carl
Barks, 1901-2000
Carl Barks created stories for children.
Herbert
L. Block
Herblock Has Left the Building
Chester
Gould and the Morality Play of Law and Order
Slugging It
Out with the Bad Guys Via the Hot Lead Route
Edward
Gorey and the Eccentric Macabre (September 5, 2001)
He Could Make Us
Shiver As We Grinned And Vice Versa (Mostly Vice)
John
Goldwater, the Comics Code Authority, and
Archie
How a Poor Orphan
Boy Invented One but Not the Other
Henry
Boltinoff: 1914-2001
His Signature
Was Everywhere—Magazines, Comic Books, Comic Strips
Shel
Silverstein (April 4, 2001)
A Man of Many Talents but Mostly, A Cartoonist
Dennis At Fifty (March 2001)
A capsule review of the career and art of Hank Ketcham
R. Crumb (2/9)
Patron Saint of Underground Comix
Rube Goldberg
and NCS (1/25)
How a Rube from the sewers
of San Francisco found his way to fame and helped start the National Cartoonists
Society
Will
Elder (11/8)
The most maniacal of the Madmen, still as crazy as ever
Day's End (8/16)
The sun set on another Day, Chon, but no one seemed to notice much until
we took up the cause here and there.
Hilda Terry and the All-boys Club (6/7)
How a single courageous lady cartoonist opened the doors to others of
her gender in the National Cartoonists Society
Hindsight’s Mock History of Marvel Comics (5/10)
A tongue-in-cheek analysis of recent events which transpired as the
House of Ideas shot itself in the foot--both feet, actually
Hindsight Biog: Robert L. Ripley (5/10)
Believe It Or Not, this is how that famous feature got its start
The Age of Schulz (5/10)
An analysis of what made Peanuts so special and Charles Schulz ditto
Again with the Vu Deja on Li’l Folks (5/10)
A curious little article that starts of with a startling fact that
has no particular import except in reference to the aforementioned Charles
Schulz
Click on your choice and wander through the Hallowed Halls of Historical
Hindsight.
