Nellie Blog

A Day at the Races I went up to Oquossoc today to cover the dog sled races. Oquossoc is a little town just the other side of Rangeley, and ...

Free comics from 1950 One of our papers, The Livermore Falls Advertiser, has a weekly feature called "This Week" in which the news...

Your choice -- Right click and print out! In response to public demand

Having mentioned how the dogs don't mind stomping out their yard after each storm, an extreme example of how kibble is more important th...

A courageous stand against racism WHITE HOUSE (AP) -- President Bush says recent displays of nooses are disturbing, and show that some Amer...

Remember last spring? This picture was taken last April, when I gave up trying to use this door, after it kept getting swamped by falling ...

Quick learner Six weeks ago, the young man driving this sled had never seen snow. He's the son of the editor I hired for our weekly pape...

Learning from the best Jeff Danziger explains his work and cartooning in general. I was running late and never should have clicked on this -...

Here's a baby polar bear, being raised by hand at a German zoo. Recently, I've been kind of missing Howard, my old buddy , who is, n...

And now, a moment of contemptible twaddle with Andy Rooney America's favorite senile uncle embarrasses the family.

So long, cousin Oscar Always liked sharing a last name with him. He was an okay piano player , too, and, for all his solo talent, he didn...

Merry Christmas to those not having one (This column originally ran in the Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, NY, December 24, 1994) I had a pro...

Gasp!! I am offended!! When this November 24 Non Sequitur was published, it created a brief furor on the newsgroup rec.arts.comic.strips, s...

Reviews are mixed Ziwa seems to think this stuff is fun and amusing. Des, on the other hand, has seen 9 winters and isn't that enthusias...

Telephones are a good thing! This ad ran in 1936, as the Depression receded and the phone company started to ponder how much business they h...

Cultural literacy Sleepy Hollow (1999) -- A Colonial-era constable probes a series of grisly decapitations in an upstate New York hamlet. ...

Ziwa's fashion show These days, Ziwa wears a blaze orange vest when we walk on the Whistlestop Trail. Des has only an orange collar, bu...

No Regrets After I updated my last blog to note the death of Norman Mailer, it occurred to me that I had a letter from him kicking around in...

Newspaper Correction of the Month (If Not Year) By Editor & Publisher Staff NEW YORK A reader, Howard Bailen, sends along the...

Aw, Scooby, you're the only one who really gets it.