History

A look back: Stimpy’s Invention

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John K. recalls a '90s classic: Stimpy's Invention: Stimpy's Invention was 2 months late because of Nick delays and because they hated it and sat...

The lost Best Comics of 2008 Meta-List–reconstructed

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Last year, blogger Dick Hyacinth presented the world with a time-consuming project -- compiling the 2007 best comics of the year lists into...

The Pilgrim’s Progress: Gary Groth

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The child is father to the man...or else there is always room for redemption and wisdom, Saul of Tarsus style. A few weeks ago,...

The Big Blog of Kids’ Comics!

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Mykal the Dog's The Big Blog of Kids' Comics! is what you'd expect. Jack Bradbury! Al Fago! Good stuff.

21 Days of Halloween: Skottie Young

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For our 21 days of Halloween celebration, Stephen Gettis reminded us of his Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time!!! blog in which cartoonists imagine...

Inside Crumb’s biblical scholarship

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Via Paul Karasik, we learn of R. Crumb's controversial new theories in biblical scholarship. Later: the Nebuchadnezzar/Gabby Hayes connection.

Hours of fun: The comics that seduced the innocent

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To commemorate last week's Banned Books Week, Stephen St Walley tracks down all the comics mentioned in Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent and...

Journey through time with the Hernandez Brothers

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Speaking of Los Bros, their Facebook Fan Page has an incredible pageant of photos through the ages. Here, an early publicity shot.

Happy Birthday, Twilight Zone

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According to an article in the Sunday New York Times, The Twilight Zone turned 50 years old last Friday.It's easy to mention "To Serve...

Carl Jung liked words AND pictures

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This long article in the NY Times Magazine talks about Carl Jung's mysterious Red Book, a journal he worked on for years which contained...

Art Attack: The Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics

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Edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics is perhaps the most seminal historical comics anthology since...

Crumb. Sodom. What are you waiting for?

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Boing Boing has an exclusive excerpt of Crumb's GENESIS, out this week, and you know they chose Chapter 19, the one where Lot has...

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