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 ...

JOHN ROMITA by Rick Marschall We learned that John has died, aged 93.  Death comes to all, but in John's case, anybody who met him feels...

JIM IVEY One of Jim’s political cartoons by Rick Marschall I was 16 or 17 when I first met Jim Ivey. My family went on annual vacations to F...

  Another Survivor. Another Tale. by Rick Marschall Art Spiegelman is in the news, prominently again; and from which the modest but talen...

Chronicler of Many Adventurous Decades Rick Marschall Birds Of a Feather? Rick Marschall and Ron Goulart on the right;  R C Harvey and Shel ...

         It Is Over at Dover by Rick Marschall Conversations with friends recently have revealed to me that many fans of comics, cartoons,...

  ★ Comic Art’s Forgotten World ★ ★ by Rick Marschall ★ Recently I wrote in this space about a magazine that died stillborn, the most un...

Happy Old Years! Even during Prohibition – perhaps especially during Prohibition – New Year’s Day was widely observed as hangover day, as in...