Enjoyed my visit today. Thanks for the “therapy session.” 😉 Here’s the art by Alex Raymond I told you about, from a few years before his untimely death. Such superb work!
P.S. Click here to browse Heritage Auctions’ comics and original art.
A Canadian study of interpersonal and international relations.
Another Canadian take on the same thing.
A cautionary note from your friendly national cartoonists.
Dear NCS Members,
Keep your eyes peeled for scammers targeting cartoonists. NCS past-President Bill Morrison had the…Posted by The National Cartoonists Society on Monday, May 3, 2021
On Facebook the Charles M. Schulz Museum is featuring the 9th Sunday installment of Peanuts, originally published just a month after Monte was born.
In 1952 Schulz was still inking lines with a brush, before switching to a pen. The characters hadn’t yet developed their individual personalities, but Chip Kidd has commented on Patty’s fascination with mud. Note that Kidd gets the year wrong.
The third Peanuts collection, “Good grief, more PEANUTS!” was the first with Sunday strips. Published in 1956, it doesn’t include the 3/2/52 strip.
Trump’s idea of improving infrastructure was a useless wall along the Mexican border. Joe Biden is giving the long-delayed repairing and updating of America’s infrastructure serious attention.
Biden is an Amtrak fan, so let’s compare. Who has the better railway system?
Is it the US…
https://youtu.be/q0s9nqgQZgQ
… or is it the UK?
https://youtu.be/WEHeVdz2oEc
More viewing on HBOmax. There was quite a contrast between watching this one night…
… and watching this the next night but, unlike the trailer, in Japanese with English subtitles.
https://youtu.be/x0ZrjocXVJ4
Only Yesterday is as quiet and gentle as Godzilla vs. Kong is the opposite of that. 1966 was the highpoint of their youth? Why yes, mine too.
