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Great to be with you all again, kids!

A slight diversion this afternoon, kids, from comic book stories to a grand one provided by the popular Whitman Tell-a-Tale books. These hardcover books were published from the 1940s through the 1970s by the Whitman Publishing Company and provided wonderful stories for young readers. And, much like the better remembered ...

Great to be with you all again, kids!

Today we have the always wonderful Lynn Karp, a stalwart in kids’ comics through the Golden Age but unfortunately not so well remembered today.

Like so many of his generation, Mr. Karp began his professional life as a Disney animator, working on such iconic films as “Pinocchio” and “Fantasia.” And as with so many o...

So, what is the “bigfoot” cartooning style? I’ll admit off the mark that it is an expression one hears seldom these days.

I have always defined it thus: Bigfoot is a style of cartooning, once predominant in comic books and comic strips, where the characters’ hands, feet, noses, all extremities, were drawn oversized and exaggerated largely for comic appeal. This style...