We all know and love Dinosaur Comics, right? That wonderful little strip started in 2003 from that Canadian fellow Ryan North that takes the same images of dinosaurs and uses them over and over again as they engage in humorous conversation? Ah, but did you know that in prehistoric times (okay, seventeen years earlier) another…
Today in 1863, the very first Sunday comic artist was born. Yes, we should all take pause today to acknowledge Richard Felton Outcault, who drew the world’s first color comic strip, "Origin of a New Species," in The New York World‘s Sunday edition. His first regular strip was "Hogan’s Alley," but he later became known…
Sustained flashback to 1940, and to an early stage of confidence and high promise for Al Capp’s long-running comic strip, Li’l Abner. Conventional wisdom, bolstered by accounts from Capp his ownself, holds that the name Yokum is a combination of “yokel” and “hokum.” That would be Yokum, as in Abner Yokum and his rural Southern…
He’s got a chauffeur that’s a genuine dinosaur… And he can knuckle yo’ head before you count to four. – Dallas Frazier “Alley Oop” (1960) The formidable dinosaur-replica standing guard at the entrance to the Museum of Science & History in Fort Worth, Texas is a native Southwesterner in more ways than one….
