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 Al Capp’s Own Crowded Life and Family   by Rick Marschall  I knew Al Capp better through the conservative movement, in the late 1960s and early ’70s, than through cartooning. Nevertheless this Crowded Life I chronicle led me to interact in several ways and various times with him. I also knew his brother Elliot Caplin, about whom not enough has been written in comics histories.

Nassua, NY Newsday, 1971: At the station, (radio DJ Al) Doud goes into a studio to tape a segment of his show. His guest is Richard Schickel, movie critic for Life magazine, who wrote a book on Walt Disney a couple of years ago. His other guest is a cartoonist named Al Kilgore (Bullwinkle) who hates the book Schickel wrote on Walt Disney a couple of years ago. Kilgore has a copy of the

Paris Is Burning by Rick Marschall Caran d'Ache I will take a little detour this week. These columns are largely personal – the running title gives me away – but I intend to present a fairly comprehensive, and behind-the-scenes, history of comics of the past 50 years or so. This week, as Easter might distract us, properly so; and with the images of Notre Dame still seared in

It All Started with Alice – My Friendship with Virginia Davis by Rick Marschall Brochure cover page of the original Alice cartoons of Walt Disney “It All Started with a Mouse” is a legend, logo, saying that is marketed at Disney theme parks and elsewhere – this colossal enterprise all around you, all around the world, really the Disney behemoth, all commenced with a simple

🙶 Wings Winfair, Speed Spaulding and  This Wonderful World 🙶 It’s my favorite picture. He made those pastels, the colors were amazing.  As a kid I wanted to play with those pastels, but couldn't ...🙷  – Pam, Lyndell's granddaughter [1] Mar 26, 1937 The earliest comic book to see the light of day was The Funnies (subtitle: “Flying – Sports – Adventure”), a dime weekly which

The Reserved Mastery of Gluyas Williams by Rick Marschall Williams is a fairly common surname, in comics and cartoon history no less than in other areas of life. An immediate detour before this week’s “journey” – about the name Williams. I cannot help think of the Bob McDill song “Good Old Boy Like Me” (HERE) with the line Those William Boys, they still mean a lot me: Hank and

=⚪= The Sphinx and the Drummer – an   Oriental Pipe Dream New York Journal Oct 31, 1897 =⚪=

Louis Raemaekers  ОО Chicago Examiner, September 27, 1917 ОО