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Hare Tonic

Hare Tonic

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

A Lost Moment in the History of Cartooning

R.C. Harvey | September 19, 2011

Hare Tonic

Forty and Counting: Bill Griffith’s Zippy

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

R.C. Harvey | August 29, 2011

Hare Tonic

John Goldwater, the Comics Code Authority, and Archie

How a Poor Orphan Boy Invented One but Not the Other.

R.C. Harvey | July 28, 2011

Hare Tonic

The Rest of the Roast

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

R.C. Harvey | July 1, 2011

Hare Tonic

Jim Davis and His Fat Feline Celebrate an Anniversary

Garfield is now 33 years old. And still likes lasagna.

R.C. Harvey | June 28, 2011

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A Footnote to an Obit

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

R.C. Harvey | May 16, 2011

Hare Tonic

Dick Locher and Dick Tracy

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

R.C. Harvey | March 11, 2011

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