Stumbled on a fascinating online artifact that I haven't seen the likes of in a very long time: The completely spurious Wikipedia article: simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_T...

Confession: I use "Lorem ipsum wah wah wah," as placeholder text while developing exhibitions for the Schulz Museum. *Amazing* doc on the phrase "Loren ipsum" and where it comes from. (It's not what you think.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1P... Thanks to @glennf.com for bringing to my attention.

LOL --- I love Roz Chast's work.

Drop something YELLOW Charlie Brown wears his yellow shirt, pre-animated adaptations, which cemented his shirt being yellow most of the time. Original color guide detail. Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, 2/13/1955

I have a big thing due in 10 days that’s hard going! Send me some completion vibes and if you need some too I’m sending you some right back!

While the zine trend is spearheaded by independent artists, newspaper printers and traditional bookstores have been embracing it too.

🎉🎉🎉🎉 I just backed The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 4] — Each issue brings new comics and new perspectives to my attention. It's wonderfully made, and a treat to receive. Get it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

Names that are not my name I have been called by political texts:

In a scrapbook 99% concerned with ads for boots and shoes, we also have an ad for… chameleons

Nice 🤙

Skeptical Moose Face? More likely than you'd think... Münster's 1550s Cosmographia @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Vault Baskes folio G113 .M75 1550)

LOL, But, this is *why* I eat onions.

I just backed That One Matt Bors Comic on @kickstarter.com by @mattbors.bsky.social @glennf.com and a bunch of other folks. Looks fabulous, and a fascinating addition to comics criticism/ scholarship/ conversation. Memetics + Comics seems like something we should be talking about more.

Haul from the library book sale today. Plus an early Foxtrot collection that was claimed by the kid. The Herman volumes replace the ones he’s read to pieces. Love the Cathy drawing!

Haul from the library book sale today. Plus an early Foxtrot collection that was claimed by the kid. The Herman volumes replace the ones he’s read to pieces. Love the Cathy drawing!

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Grogu

"Creation" by Carl Rose. Late 1930s. He's the one who did one of the all-time great New Yorker cartoons with the little kid, "I say it's spinach, and to hell with it." #amwriting

Big Man on the Beach DWWILLIAMSON.COM . . #dwwilliamson #cartoon #humor #bigmanonthebeach #theinsultthatmadeamanoutofmac #proust #arealman #kickensandinourfaces #books #reading

The Cincinnati Post May 09, 1916

If you say nice things about my book, you're AUTOMATICALLY MY FRIEND.

I recently acquired a stash of magazine gag panel cartoon clippings that seem to be mostly from the late 1930s. There are quite a few I wasn’t familiar with. One is John Rosol, who drew these really cute and fun cat cartoons. Almost a predecessor of B. Kliban’s wonderful cat cartoons.

You should absolutely register to vote if you’re eligible.

Same!

I recently acquired a stash of magazine gag panel cartoon clippings that seem to be mostly from the late 1930s. There are quite a few I wasn’t familiar with. One is John Rosol, who drew these really cute and fun cat cartoons. Almost a predecessor of B. Kliban’s wonderful cat cartoons.

You don't often see a Kirby villain with a fluffy white cat.

take my money dot gif -- I love Robert Caro.

Extremely long-shot crowdsource: Can anyone here (informedly) estimate the script-to-publication timeline for Marvel comics published in 2001-2002?

My grandfather, a Nebraska sandhills cattle rancher, was no fan of Ted Turner. He said he was a bad neighbor b/c he wouldn't let ranchers cross his land with cattle herds when it was time to move cattle for a season or whatever. However, he had one funny story ... 1/4

Has anyone else done some grocery shopping this week? 📰 Flintstones, 11/19/1970

I just saw that today was Floyd Gottfredson's birthday, in 1905. Enjoy a clipping from the Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip. ✒️ Mickey Mouse by "Walt Disney" (Floyd Gottfredson, et. al.), originally published 11/5/1936

Let them eat ballrooms!

Let them eat ballrooms!

With the recent passing of Nicole Hollander, I'm reminded that she and Charles Schulz met at least once. She came to Santa Rosa for a book signing. Newspaper reporter Susan Swartz was there, too. 📰The [Santa Rosa] Press Democrat, Sun, Feb 21, 1988 · Page 15 and 16

Comics World: If you run a con/ event/ expo/ and have a standalone account here, PLEASE put the city where your wonderful event is held in the bio of that standalone account.

I think I saw a cowboy who works on this ranch once. ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, 2/10/1963

"Ten years in the Foreign Legion, and now this!" I'm glad PPE has improved over the last 90 years, but there's still a lot of work to do *for* the workers. ✒️Frank Beaven, ca. 1937 #MayFirst #LaborDay

Part of a stash of gag panel cartoon clippings I acquired recently. ✒️Comic by J.M. Anthony, ca. late 1930s #landlord #firstofthemonth

Oh no! My library's "buy this for me please" system is down until FALL. We get 10 suggestions per month, and they buy most of what I request, but waiting until FALL? That's ... not ... good. Especially for my wallet. And so many things are *already* bad for my wallet all of a sudden.

"One more of these and I'll spill the beans about everybody here." 😏 Classic. 😉 ___________________ #jamesthurber #thurber #humor #funny #comedy #lol This James Thurber drawing is © Rosemary Thurber and may not be reproduced.

Ooops all BLAPs! Laser fire: BLAP! Airlock door opens: BLAP! A dropped glass shatters on a tile floor with a BLAP made of shards.

"Sir Mortimer" - was he around much in Wizard of Id? I don't really remember him. Also, the idea of passing a flame from candle to candle as some sort of rite of recognition? I'm not familiar with that either. I guess they've already been knighted. www.comiclink.com/auctions/ima...

Anyone in the market for some Jack Kirby drawn sewer alligators? I like this. I've been wondering what to get my sister in Florida for Christmas this year .... www.comiclink.com/auctions/ima...

John Rosol, best remembered as a gag-panel magazine cartoonist, had these really cute and fun cat cartoons he'd do. It looks like there was even a book collecting them in the 1940s. I'm not really a cat person, but these are cute and funny.

Back of an archived clipping caught my eye. Frieda Kahlo described as the Trotskys’ “Mexican hostess, Mrs Diego Rivera.” Probably Saturday Evening Post in the late 1930s, I would guess.

Getting lazy ... Eek & Meek by Howie Schneider, 3/18/1968 Adding Three More 1968 Newspaper Clippings – Benjamin L. Clark, writer benjaminlclark.com/more-eek-mee...

Should I watch it? I like Scott Bakula and the era is intriguing ...