With the passing of Dame Vera Lynn at 103, World War II slips a little bit further away from living memory. Thanks to magnetic tape recording — an invention perfected in Nazi Germany — this 1950’s re-recording of Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again” sounds as though it could have been made yesterday.
I should see if Vera Lynn ever commented on this use of her signature song.
What the @#$%^&*! is this supposed to be? I have absolutely no idea. It’s one of my countless mindless doodles.
As I have mentioned before, I grew up in Connecticut surrounded by cartoonists. Unfortunately, I didn’t begin to realize that until shortly before my family moved to Massachusetts. What might have been if we hadn’t moved!
Mort Walker passed away a couple of years ago, and his sons continue the family business. Brian Walker’s studio is only two miles from where I lived as a kid.
Reveille – A Family Legacy In Comics from Dave Walker on Vimeo.
A tip o’ the ol’ DogRat toupee to Mark Evanier, who recently featured this video on his NewsFromME blog.
There sure are plenty more cars on the road than there were in the middle of the lockdown, and today I was driving one of them.
What makes today’s Blondie comic strip so outdated? Dagwood’s using one of those old 900 MHz wireless phones!
Lindsey Graham, before he crumbled under Trump’s heel.
