By Joe Albanese “Life is not so short. But that there is always time enough for courtesy” Ralph Waldo Emerson “You’re acting all American, American, American But you were born in Italy.” Renato Carosone (Tu vuo’fa’ l’Americano) They’re doing away with bullying! Good! As wonderful a time and place as the Lower East Side (let’s
Yorktown, N.Y.: The Daily News missed an opportunity to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its color Sunday comics supplement, first appearing on Feb. 25, 1923. Given that The News’ original publisher, Joseph Medill Patterson, hand-picked and often named the comics he wanted, and that The News has one of the richest comics histories in the industry, it’s an omission that speaks to the sad state of interest in comic strips today.
From 100 years ago is an article on the then-current comics scene from the February 1923 Vanity Fair. THE largest group, dealing with married life, reaches its lowest level of painfulness in the series "For Better For Worse", by Tad, and perhaps its highest level in Briggs' series "Mr. and Mrs". It includes such varied…