Under the Tree... More  Surprises! by Rick Marschall I have been sharing Christmas cards and drawings from my collection, and I wanted to ...

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...

Sid Smith sporting cartoon, Oct 15, 1909. Nearly every major cartoonist drew sporting cartoons at one time or another: Billy DeBeck, Bud Fis...

Sidney Smith,  Chicago Tribune, July 19, 1908 ★

‘Concerning Sol Hess, Unsung Pioneer of the  Continuity Comic Strip: New Findings from  America’s Historical Newspapers’ HER...

There were two things in life that Sidney Smith reportedly loved; money and speed, so it was no surprise to his friends when he died 20 Oct ...