Welcome to Screwball Sunday. Here you can get your weekly fix of absurdist-driven comic strip comedy. Each post will share new art and information related to Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny. In a recent podcast episode devoted to a discussion of screwball comics, cartoonist Noah Van Sciver (Blammo, The Hypo, Fante Bukowski) […]
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May
May
Back — after a hiatus to allow our new-look website to complete construction and be unveiled — with more delightful artwork from the commemorative book celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Jack & Charlie’s, that Manhattan restaurant and watering hole for the movers and shakers that was better known as “21.” If you missed our two […]
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May
May
Knowing that persons everywhere are looking for new diversions during the current global circumstances, it occurred to us that we may be getting casual browsers stopping by this space for only the first or second time. They may find themselves wondering, “What’s this whole Library of American Comics thing about, anyway?” This entry is a […]
"Cap" Stubbs & Tippie, Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Bungle Family, Dick Tracy, King Aroo, Little Orphan Annie, Popeye, Scorchy Smith, Terry and the Pirates, The Gumps
Corned Beef, Cabbage, and an Errant Rolling Pin
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May
May
Every so often we receive emails from fans bemoaning the fact that one reprint series or another wasn’t successful enough (in other words, didn’t sell enough copies) for the series to continue. A recent email to that effect about our two Bringing Up Father books got me thinking. We have really spoiled ourselves and each […]
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May
May
Welcome to our new and improved website, with faster links, additional information, and new features. We’ve also designed it so that you can read about LOAC volumes and EuroComics books on the same site. Most of the old blogs will be migrated over in the weeks to come. We’ve also added a comments feature to […]
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Apr
Apr
Following up on our previous entry in this space devoted to the New York hotspot “21” and its tribute book, The Iron Gate (see that first installment here), please enjoy these six additional images … Watch this space in coming days for more artwork from the pages of The Iron Gate!
Caniff, General News, Steve Canyon, Terry and the Pirates
Found Inside The Iron Gate (First in a Series)
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Apr
Apr
The Air Force Association (AFA) was founded in 1945 when the head of the Army Air Forces, General Hap Arnold, campaigned for the creation of a veterans group that would support establishing the Air Force as a separate branch of the military. Chapters of the AFA blossomed in major cities coast to coast, and when […]
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Apr
Apr
We received the sad news that my good friend Dale Crain has died. We were the same age and had known each other since the ‘80s, when I ran Eclipse and he worked at Fantagraphics. Dale was a great comics historian and hands-down the best archival comics restorer I know. In LOAC’s early days, when […]
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Mar
Mar
Greetings to all our visitors — I’ve been quiet in recent weeks because my wife has been under the weather and I’ve been running the household by myself (she’s much better now, thanks!). It was a challenge, even before the current circumstances fully took hold. We trust all our readers are acting responsibly and staying […]
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Feb
Feb
Don’t miss Art Spiegelman’s insightful 5000-word review of Screwball! by Paul Tumey in the New York Review of Books! “The future of comics is in the past, and Paul Tumey does a heroic job of casting a fresh light on the hidden corners of that past in Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny. […]