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Jud Hurd and Cartoonist PROfiles

BY R.C. Harvey Oct 21, 2011 4 Comments

A remembrance of the late, great comic strip gadfly, Jud Hurd. Continue reading →

 
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Max Eastman, The Masses and the Invention of the Modern Gag Cartoon

BY R.C. Harvey Sep 19, 2011 5 Comments

A Lost Moment in the History of Cartooning Continue reading →

 
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Forty and Counting: Bill Griffith’s Zippy

BY R.C. Harvey Aug 29, 2011 3 Comments

Zippy, the character, not the comic strip, passed the forty-year milestone late last year. Continue reading →

 
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John Goldwater, the Comics Code Authority, and Archie

BY R.C. Harvey Jul 28, 2011 6 Comments

How a Poor Orphan Boy Invented One but Not the Other.
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The Rest of the Roast

BY R.C. Harvey Jul 1, 2011 4 Comments

Our man responds to the recent NCS video “kerfuffle”. Continue reading →

 
Garfield's Birthday

Jim Davis and His Fat Feline Celebrate an Anniversary

BY R.C. Harvey Jun 28, 2011 10 Comments

Garfield is now 33 years old. And still likes lasagna. Continue reading →

 
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A Footnote to an Obit

BY R.C. Harvey May 16, 2011 4 Comments

Bill Blackbeard died and none of us knew for six weeks thereafter. Continue reading →

 
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Dick Locher and Dick Tracy

BY R.C. Harvey Mar 11, 2011 1 Comment

After 28 years drawing and/or writing Dick Tracy, Dick Locher is giving up stewardship of the iconic comic strip. Continue reading →