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March 23, 2015
Comics KingdomEditor’s Dispatch: National Spinach Day
I know most of you wore your green LAST week, but here at King Features, we all wear our green for a holiday that is very near and dear to our hearts. You all know what that ...Read nowMarch 23, 2015
Comics KingdomAlt Tarzan
(Nobody will mind if you make these cartoons larger by clicking them. Try it. You’ll see.) Bizarro is brought to you today by Horseracing Cheaters. Last Sunday I published a ...Read nowMarch 23, 2015
Comics KingdomThe First Week
After King Features accepted Mort Walker’s college strip, starring Spider, and re-named it Beetle Bailey, they discussed a suitable launch date. The syndicate initially proposed Oc...Read nowMarch 22, 2015
Comics KingdomThe Second Day of Spring
Yesterday was the first day of spring and we had about five or six inches of snow here in Connecticut. I had to clear off the car and shovel the walk this morning. It has been a lo...Read nowMarch 20, 2015
Comics KingdomNews Around The Kingdom: Spring Is Here!
This week, we welcomed guest blogger Kurt Kolka, freelance cartoonist and author of “Bullying Is No Laughing Matter,” into the Comics Kingdom fold. Kurt has done an ama...Read nowMarch 20, 2015
Comics KingdomToronto Comic Con!
Are you going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend? If you are, stop by and say hello! I’ll be at the National Cartoonists Society Booth #117. I’ll have a limited nu...Read nowMarch 19, 2015
Comics KingdomFrancesco Marciuliano and Jim Keefe Interview
Check out this two-part interview with Sally Forth writer Francesco Marciuliano and artist Jim Keefe on Tall Tale Radio. Hosted by the one and only Tom Racine. Tall Tale Radio Inte...Read nowMarch 19, 2015
Comics KingdomAsk the Archivist: HOORAY FOR BULLIES!
Hello, loyal patrons of the Kingdom’s blogs, Today the Archivist would like to say a few words of praise for a downtrodden underdog of the comic pages, those misunderst...Read nowMarch 19, 2015
Comics KingdomBeetle Begins
Mort Walker was working as a magazine cartoonist in New York when John Bailey, the cartoon editor of the Saturday Evening Post, encouraged him to do some cartoons based on his coll...Read nowMarch 18, 2015
Comics KingdomGrumbel’s in The Buckets!
My good buddy Greg Cravens has made a trip to Grumbel’s Department Store the subject of this week’s story in The Buckets! Thanks for the shout out Greg! The story conti...Read nowMarch 18, 2015
Comics KingdomSnuffy’s Weekend In Mayberry
Recently, I was invited by Pat Gwyn, Director Of The Mount Airy (NC) Public Library, to give a Snuffy Smith Chalk Talk and tour The Andy Griffith Museum. Being a huge fan of The An...Read nowMarch 18, 2015
Comics KingdomAsk A Cartoonist: Bully for You!
A lot of cartoonists experienced bullying as children. Quiet artistic types are often the brunt of jokes– I know I was picked on more than once for preferring to sit in...Read now