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A Crowded Life in Comics –

← The Twain Has Left the Station →  by Rick Marschall  I intend to write more about the great Lucca Comics Festival in Tuscany, as I did a few weeks ago with photos and sketches. Especially after the death this week of its manager for many years, Rinaldo Traini. I am gathering photos, drawings, and memories; and will share them soon. When I lived in Weston CT my home was 15 minutes
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Printing in the Fifteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries

Monthly Supplement  of the  Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Ợ No. 369 Charles Knight & Co. Nov 30 to Dec 31, 1837 Ợ Ợ
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Sunday with Burne Hogarth –

Burne Hogarth – Star Weekly, Jan 6, 1945 Burne Hogarth – Coq Hardi, France, Jan 1, 1948
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A Crowded Life in Comics –

Good Sports by Rick Marschall [TOP] Pap Depicted is the dean of all sports columnists, Grantland Rice. Trivia: I own (or my son does, now) Rice’s golf clubs. Bequeathed to his friend, syndicate pioneer John Wheeler, and passed on to me. Sports cartooning is, or was, a category of cartooning that arguably can be considered an incubator once on a par with political cartoons
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Sunday with Jimmy Swinnerton –

↻ Pink Whiskers Jones! - Ah Yes!  Roy Delancey, To Be Sure!  ↻ Chicago Examiner  Sept 13, 1908
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A Crowded Life in Comics –

Cartoonists’ Love Notes, Good-Byes, and Get-Wells Rick Marschall May 24 was the anniversary of me and my late wife Nancy. She died six and a half years ago, a great wife and mother to our three children. She endured a lifetime of ailments – diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, celiac disease, amputations, dialysis, heart and kidney transplants, and, at the end, creeping
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Comic Shorthand – The Melee

by Jimmy Swinnerton      encounter between a dog and a bad mans another encounter between a dog and a bad mans encounter between a dog and an artist encounter between a cat, a dog and a bad mans ⚪
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