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Happy New Year...
and
Old Years Too!
ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS ~~
Art is long; life is short.
2025 has been a momentous year -- a cliche that doubtless is true for most of us. Most years are in most ways. But for readers of Yesterday's Papers we remember with sadness and gratitude the passing this web magazine's founder and guiding light, John Adcock. I became the successor and I desire to continue in his footsteps. One way I have not succeeded is by letting time other projects sabotage that work. In past months I have gotten married; moved and sustained a moving-truck accident that devastated my collection; and ghost-wrote an important political that was published a few weeks ago. Yes... a momentous year.
But stick with us (AND submit your own research, treasures, and questions!) I will be more diligent in the future; and as Yesterday's Papers and the revived NEMO Magazine will have a synergistic relationship. In the meantime...
In1950, Rudolph Dirks celebrated the fact that Hans and Fritz were 53 years old. He shows Father Time looking in the ledger of 1897, the year that Dirks created the Katzenjammer Kids; and draws a gag about the comics' cliché (with few exceptions) that characters do not age. This page is relatively ancient itself -- 75 years since its own appearance, more than half the lives of Hans and Fritz. Time flies when...
Father Time and I and Yesterday's Papers wish a Happy New Year to all our friends! Dod gast it!
