Created for Rosh Hashanah, 2022 [Editor’s Note: Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year festival, held on the first day of the Hebrew calendar month of Tishri (this year, September 25). It is marked by the blowing of the shofar, and begins the ten days of penitence culminating in Yom Kippur, “The Day of Atonement. […]
Timely Street
Comics, Superheroes & The Side Street God.
I frick’n heard enuff!
[Editor’s Note: Ralph (or “Ralphy”) is a cartoonist who I have followed for many years now. Back when I was doing the “Urban Paradoxes” blog, Ralph graciously created a cartoon for that blog and to use in my work. I am honored that he consented to allow me to use these two cartoons on SIDE […]
Timely Street
On Timely Street we find comics and cartoons, sometimes even superheroes. Timely Street draws its name from Timely comics the precursor to Marvel Comics. In 1939, pulp magazine publisher, Martin Goodman, founded Timely Comics to cash in on the growing popularity of comic books and the superheroes who resided in them. Comics should not be […]
Is Popeye God?
As a kid arriving home from church on a Sunday morning one of the first things I did was to grab hold of the “funny papers” and read faithfully every funny. “Popeye The Sailor” was one of those comics. Although I probably didn’t realize it at the time, there were those funny strip characters that […]