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↻ Pink Whiskers Jones! - Ah Yes!  Roy Delancey, To Be Sure!  ↻ Chicago Examiner  Sept 13, 1908

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

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 ⚪

The World’s Greatest Comics Festival, Lucca   [1] Sergio Aragones prepares his morning cappuccino by Rick Marschall I have been to Europe more than 60 times, a good percentage of those trips centered around comics festivals, salons, and symposiums. That I often planned trips to coincide, or, more often, I was an invited guest as speaker, juror, or exhibitor (not exhibitionist) made

OLD DOC YAK TAKES HIS SPACE by Chris Beneke      COMIC EXPERIMENT. American comics of the early 1900s were rich with experimenters and experimentation. Within a decade or so, and certainly by the close of World War I, if not before, this experimentation had given way to a formula, based on strong characters and what-came-to-be-called sequentialism.      Here’s how Sidney Smith began Old

Art from Crowded Sketchbooks  by Rick Marschall I have been text-heavy in this space over the past several installments, so I will be merciful and be art-heavy today; or whatever its polar opposite is. In a “crowded life” in the comics and cartoon worlds, I have been blessed to meet many cartoonists beginning in second grade of school (mine, not theirs). Some blossomed into lifelong

 Jimmy - He Earns a Reward!   Chicago Examiner   August 6, 1911  S