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February 20, 2016
Comics KingdomComic Ads
Ger Apeldoorn, a Dutch writer and comics historian, has a blog entitled “The Fabulous Fifties.” On September 15, 2012, he featured some of Dik Browne’s advertisements for Camel Cig...Read nowFebruary 19, 2016
Comics KingdomGifted
“You’re not removing the price tag if we paid that much for their gift!”Read nowFebruary 19, 2016
Comics KingdomNews Around the Kingdom: Cartoonists Present!
Greetings Comics Royals! John Rose (“Barney Google & Snuffy Smith”) visited Culpeper Christian in Virginia last Friday at the request of his niece and nephew who at...Read nowFebruary 19, 2016
Comics KingdomSketching England
Totally forgot to send in my thinger for today’s Comics Kingdom newsletter on “favorite historical figures” – so here’s what I WOULD have sent in! Whi...Read nowFebruary 19, 2016
Comics KingdomBeetle Bailey Comic Books
The first Beetle Bailey comic book, Dell #469 shown above, was published on May 1, 1953. At that time it was part of the Dell Four Color Comics series, which ran alternating titles...Read nowFebruary 18, 2016
Comics KingdomAsk the Archivist: E. SIMMS CAMPBELL
Today we look at the work of E. Simms Campbell, the foremost black cartoonist of the New Deal to the postwar era. Campbell (1906-71) had a long and varied career, which took him fr...Read nowFebruary 17, 2016
Comics KingdomAsk A Cartoonist: History’s Mysteries
It’s Presidents’ Day Week here in the United States, and Presidents’ Day always gets me thinking about all the great men and women of history, from civil servants...Read nowFebruary 17, 2016
Comics KingdomWanna Have Some Fun?
Wanna get together for coffee? You’re invited to a special FREE event at the Grimsby Public Library (southern Ontario, Canada) to celebrate International Women’s Day! ...Read nowFebruary 15, 2016
Comics KingdomGenius Pets
(To embiggenate any cartoon in this post, click any blue color.) Bizarro is brought to you today by That Pesky Bursitis. The concept at work in this cartoon is that an occasional m...Read nowFebruary 15, 2016
Comics KingdomA Valentine “Surprise”
Man, I had a lot of fun writing last week’s strips. This was a short series in which Jess discovers an old stash of Jill’s “memorabilia” from the kids’...Read now