Comics in the Golden Age

Well...that was my great-great grandfather's name.🤷🏼‍♂️

I guess he did

Yep, my dad's family is from West Tennessee, so I get it.

This made the front page of the paper and we still have a copy.

My grandfather writing in his notepad while standing next to Walt Disney.

This is my grandpa, Elvis, when he was a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel in 1965. He was covering a story on this old guy who was planning to build a big theme park there.

We had to give it up so as not to subject anyone to a lifetime of explaining "no, I'm not actually named after him."

"Elvis" used to be a common family name on my dad's side. Both my grandfather and great-grandfather were named Elvis & there were others too.

Conversations with Lynn Johnston - The Comics Journal Shaenon Garrity looks at the latest book in the University of Mississippi Press' Conversations series, a collection of interviews with For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston.

Conversations with Lynn Johnston, edited by Jeff McLaughlin (University Press of Mississippi, 2025) reviewed by Shaenon Garrity www.tcj.com/reviews/conv...

Shock Suspenstories #2 (1952). On the cover, an enraged mob is beating a man, with people calling him “a dirty red” and telling him to go back to where he came from. One man begs them to stop, telling them what they’re doing is wrong and to act like Americans.

Cover by Wally Wood.

Post a GIF that represents you best.

A gun is sitting on a shelf with a tag on it. The tag says: A 45 colt type pistol I am a gun An instrument of death A murder weapon hardened… In the fires of hate Conceived with cold cunning of a killer’s mind… “Death is My Destiny”

The Spirit from March 4, 1951. Art by Will Eisner.

Kumar throws his body at their captor, who falls on his own knife. Tarzan and Kamur descend to the Brigands' cave, and see the outlaws making merry in a cavern hall. They close the door to the hall and seal it with a crossbar. They free Nikotris from the dungeon, and Nikotris and Kamur depart, while Tarzan returns young Hotep to his family.

Tarzan by Hal Foster from March 4, 1934.

A black and white still photo of a dozen or so of the main characters and others in the episode standing in a group on a sidewalk or driveway looking pensively straight ahead at something offscreen. The men are wearing casual shirts and pants, the women casual dresses. A dark colored station wagon is partially visible in the background at left.

Tonight in 1959, “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” (season 1, episode 22)—Rod Serling’s taut and unforgettable Cold War parable depicting the societal consequences of irrational fear and paranoia of communist infiltration—was broadcast for the first time on CBS.

Black and white promotional art for the strip showing Rip in various scenarios. The main image shows him holding a gun with a beautiful woman laying on the the ground next to him.

One of the Rip Kirby collections from the Library of American Comics.

Three daily strips

The newspaper comic strip Rip Kirby, created by Alex Raymond, premiered on March 4, 1946. It ran until June 26, 1999.

How I arrived on Bluesky.

A gun is sitting on a shelf with a tag on it. The tag says: A 45 colt type pistol I am a gun An instrument of death A murder weapon hardened… In the fires of hate Conceived with cold cunning of a killer’s mind… “Death is My Destiny”

The Spirit from March 4, 1951. Art by Will Eisner.

Cat, I will never again in my life see her or any of the Runaways without thinking of you.

A comic panel of Uncle Scrooge thinking "what a horrible fate to befall the world!"

An image of the Thing (Ben Grimm) dressed like Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with a cigar in his hand.

Just realized it's been over a year since I showed off this commission I got from @rpace.bsky.social. He was raising money for a charity. I will never stop showing this off.

Buz Sawyer volume 1 to 4, by the great Roy Crane.

Buz Sawyer newspaper strip collections.

Mail day. Yay.

This episode is why I had laser eye surgery. My worst nightmare. Haunted me for years.

Burgess Meredith in the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last.” He is enjoying a book on the ruins of a library after a nuclear war.

Me, every time I take a break from reading the news to try to escape with a book or comic.

Columbo and the Third Doctor

In a better world...

A comic panel of Uncle Scrooge thinking "what a horrible fate to befall the world!"

Every comic I’ve ever drawn has taken a chunk of my health with it. Every cartoonist should be a millionaire for the amount of effort you have to put in.

Abolish ICE.

It's so damn beautiful.