Folk Singer Joan Baez  (somewhat) immortalized in Li'l Abner by Rick Marschall Al Capp and his Li'l Abner character Joanie Phoanie...

  A vignette, a step back in time, regarding a legendary cartoonist, a neglectful studio, and the Golden Age of comics collecting. More than...

Happy Annie-versary! We celebrate the fecund year of 1924 as the centennial of seminal comic strips and the period when the “story strip” as...

Caricature is a special category of art. It is midway between portrait and parody; reality and exaggeration; truth and... Well, it usually c...

Associations. By Rick Marschall It is the hardest thing in the world these days, especially for a writer and former politica...

 Al Capp’s Own Crowded Life and Family   by Rick Marschall  I knew Al Capp better through the conservative movement, in the ...