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THE REAL CAPTAIN EASY (January/February 2012)
And Where Roy Crane Found Him
ONE GOOD APPLE PROVES A BARREL’S WORTH (January 2012)
Solving for Once and All the Ostensible Mystery of Mary Worth’s Origin
INSIDE THE 24-HOUR COMIC (Thanksgiving 2011)
The Ordeal and the Ecstasy
The Blackhawk Mysteries (November 2011)
Will Eisner, Chuck Cuidera, and Reed Crandall
SIGNE WILKINSON ON THE ATTACK (October 2011)
Editorial Cartooning with a Vengeance
Griffy and Zippy (July 21, 2011)
Forty and Counting
Basil Wolverton and Lena the Hyena (May 2011)
More than A Master Drawer of Ugly Women
THE MAN WHO SAVED THE COMICS (April 25, 2001)
Bill Blackbeard Checks Out at 84
Chas Addams with Macabre (April 20ll)
And a Dash of the Diabolical
DICK LOCHER’S DICK TRACY (March 2011)
Life Backstage with an Icon
ANOTHER REDHEADED ENDING (January 2011)
Brenda Starr and Her Flamboyant Creator, Dale Messick
The Lawrence Welk of Cartoonists (November 2010)
Ernie, Nancy, and the Bushmiller Society
THE CHAMPION BAD GUY (October 2010)
The Worst of the Worst Was the Absolute Worst—Iron Jaw
Bill Hume and Babysan (September 2010)
Unknown and, Until Now, Unheralded
Inkslinging and Opinion Mongering with Rob Rogers (July 2010)
Political
Cartooning from Pittsburgh
Julie
Larson=s Dinette Set Is All of Us (June 2010)
Life in
Suburbia is Forever Inane and Banal
THE ORPHAN’S EPIC (May 17, 2010)
How Annie and Her Dog Sandy Lasted for Almost 86 Years
Tales of the Founding of the National Cartoonists Society (April 8, 2010)
How It All Came To Be
Lulu, Henry, Hazel, and Marge (January 3, 2010)
Pop-up Feminism at the Back of the Post
BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH (December 2009)
Billy DeBeck, Fred Lasswell, and John Rose
BRINGING
UP FATHER AND THE REST OF THE COMIC PAGE (October 2009)
Jiggs
and George McManus
CARTOONING,
COMIX, COMICS, THE CLASSICS, AND THE KITCHEN SINK (September 2009)
Denis
Kitchen, Elder Statesman
FATHERHOOD
AND THE OFFSPRING THEREOF (August 2009)
Frederick
Burr Opper and Happy Hooligan
You’re
In the Army Now (July 2009)
Private
Breger and His Creator Dave
A
Plethora of Phoney Firsts in Creator’s Rights (June 2009)
But
Mostly Palmer Cox and His Diminutive Brownies
THE
GREAT TRIO COMPLETE AT LAST (May 2009)
Gorgeous
Biography of Alex Raymond
Art
Bouthillier (April 2009)
And
the Brutal albeit Beatific Truth about Freelancing Magazine Cartoons
OF
CARTOONING, RUBENS, AND ADAM'S RIB (March 22,
2009)
Girlie
Cartoons and Barenekidwimmin
AWOL
Wally (February 22, 2009)
The
Most Famous Doughboy You Never Heard About
BEETLE
BAILEY GOES BEETLING ON, FIFTY-EIGHT AND COUNTING (December
29, 2008)
A
Short Historical Appreciation of Mort Walker’s Landmark Strip
Going
Old in Gasoline Alley (November 23, 2008)
Ninety
Years And Counting
SWIN,
ZIM AND OLLIE: A BRACE OF OLD MASTERS AND A NEW ONE (October 5, 2008)
Rare
Biography and Antique Racism in Cartooning
PLAYBOY’S
FIRST CARTOONIST (September 2008)
What
Really Happened When Hugh M. Hefner Was Editor of Shaft
SERGIO
ARAGONES (July 20, 2008)
The
Art of Pantomime Cartooning
Jim
Davis and His Fat Feline (June 2008)
Celebrate
an Anniversary
Limners of the
Immortal Toad: Disney, Rackham, Shepard, and Plessix—
Cartoonists All, in
the Wind in the Willows (May 10, 2008)
Words into Pictures:
Visualizing Literary Works, Warts and Gnarls
WHAT
JACK KIRBY DID (April 13, 2008)
Besides
Captain America, Boy Commandos, Young Romance, Boy’s Ranch,
Fighting American, Challengers of the Unknown, Fantastic Four, Thor,
Hulk, X-Men, Fourth World
Howard
the Duck (February 29, 2008)
A
Wise-quacking Waterfowl That Showed How Adult Comic Books Can Be
Ambassador
Extraordinaire (February 8, 2008)
Gus
Arriola, 1917-2008
Mistress
of Adolescent Angst, Girlish Laughter Division (February
2, 2008)
Marty
Links, 1917-2008
T.K.
RYAN AND THE TUMBLIN’ TUMBLEWEEDS (January
13, 2008)
A
Classic Western Satire
CARTOONING IN
A
Conversation with Pat Bagley
November
2007: Celebrating the Centennial of the Daily Newspaper Comic Strip (
Mutt, Jeff
and Their Precursing Creator, Bud Fisher
BUCK BROWN
AND HIS INSATIABLE GRANDMOTHER (October 2007)
One of
Playboy’s Original Line-up of Cartooners in Color
Cartoonist As God (
John Held,
Jr.,
Creator of an Age
Remembering Clay Geerdes (July 23, 2007)
Photographic Chronicler of Comix
Underground
THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (July 7, 2007)
The Summer of Love, Robert Crumb, and
the Birth of Underground Comix
How Jews Created the Four Color
Fantasies (June 15, 2007)
If Jews Created Comics, Are Comics,
Then, Jewish?
Irwin Caplan, 1919-2007 (May 2007)
Advertising Cartoonist
It’s the
Pictures, Stupid (April 23, 2007)
Not to Mention Bondage and Grecian Urns
WERTHAM REVISITED (March 25, 2007)
Seduction in the Eighties
DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN A REVIEW AND A
CRITIQUE (February 2007)
Lost Cause
THE DANISH DOZEN & FREEDOM OF
EXPRESSION IN THE PRESS (February
12, 2007)
A Summary of the Events of the Winter
of 2006
Top One Hundred Print Cartoon Creations
of the Century (January 2007)
Compiled for the Comic Buyer’s Guide
Somewhere Near the Beginning of 2000
FOXTROTTING (January 2007)
Bill
Amend at Ten and Nearly Twenty
Slaphappy Heroicism
(November 20, 2006)
Funnyman: A Good Last Act
Michelle Urry, Playboy, and Gag
Cartooning (October 23, 2006)
A Meandering Conversation and a Fond
Farewell
Wild ’n’ Woolly American Mythology (October 2006)
A Ramblin’ Look at Cowboyin’ in Strips
Captain Marvel: The Big Red Rip-off? (September 18, 2006)
A Short History of Fawcett and Its Most
Famous Creation
Setting the
Fashion with the Patterson Girl (August 2006)
The Varied
Career of Russell Patterson
For the Mickey (July 10, 2006)
The Lively Comic Art of Arnold Rot
Milt Gross (May 1, 2006)
Banana Oil and the First
Graphic Novel?
Max Eastman and The Masses (April 3, 2006)
An Lost Moment in the History of
Cartooning
If Good Comics Can Have Good Effects
upon Their Readers,
Why Can’t Bad Comics Have Bad
Effects?(March 2006)
OR, Wasn’t Wertham Right After All?
How Much Did Batman Knock-off Dick
Tracy? (January 2006)
Were the Picturesque Batcrooks Inspired
by Chester Gould’s Gallery of Grotesques?
At Swords’ Point: Humor As Weapon (December 19, 2005)
The Life and Ordeals of a Woman
Cartoonist
Defining
Comics Again (December 12, 2005)
Another
in the Long List of Unnecessarily Complicated Definitions
Smokestack Foo-mania (November 21, 2005)
The Life and Notary Sojac of Bill
Holman
Getting Our Pornograph Fixed (November 7, 2005)
A Fond Appreciation of Eight-Page
Dalliances So Long Ago Abandoned
Mickey Mouse
and Walt Disney and Animated Cartooning (October 31, 2005)
Written to Celebrate Mickey’s 75th in 2003 but, Until Now, Never Published
Mark Twain at the Drawingboard (October 23, 2005)
H.T. Webster, A Timid Soul for the Ages
A
Stretch in the Bone Age (September 11, 2005)
The Life and Cartooning Genius of V.T. Hamlin
Smilin'
Zack Mosley's Wilder Blue Yonder (July
24, 2005)
A Madcap Dash of Cliffhanging Escapades
A Speculative Essay at Resurrecting the
Past
Making the World Safe
for Insanity (May 11, 2005)
The Absurdities of Vip
One of the New Yorker's Pace-setting Big
Four
Some Further Adieu
Will
Eisner:
An Affectionate Appreciation
(
How Noel Sickles
Developed the Chiaroscuro Technique that Milton Caniff Made Famous
Leslie
Turner, Assistant No More (October 2004)
A Second Act
as Good as the First
The New Yorker and the
Single-panel Gag Cartoon (
Willard
Mullin (
The
Champion of the Sporting Life
Fred
Harman, Cowboy Cartoonist (
Creator of Little Beaver and "You betchum, Red Ryder"
Superheroes
on the Couch (
A Psychoanalytic Speculation
Don Martin
(
The Maddest One
Percy Crosby
and Skippy (
The Great Peanut Butter Crime
Popeye, a Masterwork
in the Medium (
Not Just a Superhero but a Superlative Comic Strip Character
An Impassioned Cartoonist of Uncompromising Principle
Defining
the Graphic Novel (January 19, 2004)
Its Origins and the Pioneers Who
Shaped It
The
Mystique and Mysteries of Jack Cole (November 9, 2003)
From Plastic Man to Playboy and Betsy
and Me
The
Longest-running Comics (October 19, 2003)
And the Oldest
Continuously Appearing Daily Cartoon Character
The
Making of the Marvel Universe (July 20, 2003)
Kirby or Lee?
Jules
Feiffer and Autistic America (May 4, 2003)
Bill
Mauldin Fades Away (
The Old Soldier Gets a Yahtzee
Hirschfeld Has Left the Building (January 25, 2003)
A Tribute to the
Line King
Celebrating
Pogo and Walt Kelly(December
18, 2002)
A 60th Anniversary
Effusion
The
Stories of Willie Tuck (December 4, 2002)
The last live-in connection to the life and career of Milton Caniff
One
Hundred Years of American Cartooning (October 17, 2002)
A Baker’s Dozen or Two of the Top Cartoonists of the Last Century
How
Mad Came To Be (August 22, 2002)
The Birth and Evolution of a National Humor Magazine
Roy
Crane and the Adventure Strip (July 24, 2002)
A Flourish
of Trumpets
Al
Capp: Hubris and Chutzpah
Giant
Talent and Secret Sleaze
Carl
Barks, 1901-2000
Carl Barks created stories for children.
Herbert
L. Block
Herblock Has Left the Building
Chester
Gould and the Morality Play of Law and Order
Slugging It
Out with the Bad Guys Via the Hot Lead Route
Edward
Gorey and the Eccentric Macabre (September 5, 2001)
He Could Make Us
Shiver As We Grinned And Vice Versa (Mostly Vice)
John
Goldwater, the Comics Code Authority, and
Archie
How a Poor Orphan
Boy Invented One but Not the Other
Henry
Boltinoff: 1914-2001
His Signature
Was Everywhere—Magazines, Comic Books, Comic Strips
Shel
Silverstein (April 4, 2001)
A Man of Many Talents but Mostly, A Cartoonist
Dennis At Fifty (March 2001)
A capsule review of the career and art of Hank Ketcham
R. Crumb (2/9)
Patron Saint of Underground Comix
Rube
Goldberg and NCS (1/25)
How a Rube from the sewers
of San Francisco found his way to fame and helped start the National Cartoonists
Society
Will
Elder (11/8)
The most maniacal of the Madmen, still as crazy as ever
Day's End (8/16)
The sun set on another Day, Chon, but no one seemed to notice much until
we took up the cause here and there.
Hilda Terry and the All-boys Club (6/7)
How a single courageous lady cartoonist opened the doors to others of
her gender in the National Cartoonists Society
Hindsight’s Mock History of Marvel
Comics (5/10)
A tongue-in-cheek analysis of recent events which transpired as the
House of Ideas shot itself in the foot--both feet, actually
Hindsight Biog: Robert L. Ripley (5/10)
Believe It Or Not, this is how that famous feature got its start
The Age of Schulz (5/10)
An analysis of what made Peanuts so special and Charles Schulz ditto
Again with the Vu Deja on Li’l Folks
(5/10)
A curious little article that starts of with a startling fact that
has no particular import except in reference to the aforementioned Charles
Schulz
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