( Cartoon by Herb Block, from The Washington Post , June 17, 1949.)

James Montgomery Flagg 's iconic image of Uncle Sam turned 96 years old yesterday. Although most of us know the stern, finger-pointing...

(I clipped that image from page 26 of Two Faces of Communism , a comic book published in 1961 by the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade of H...

Now that I have your attention (or Catholics' attention, at least)... In 1947, as the Cold War dawned, the Catechetical Guild of St....

( Adapted from the now-iconic "Keep Calm and Carry On" propaganda poster, produced during World War II by Great Britain's M...

As I posted that last 'toon , a sendup of the iconic Gonzalez Flag of the Texas Revolution, it struck me -- for all of the truly c...

"Just one of the people"

Posted on levonhelm.com yesterday: "Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates...

Incomparable illustrator Will Eisner created the character of " Connie Rodd " for the U.S. Army's P*S Magazine . A blonde bom...

I urge readers of KintlaLake Blog to take 15 minutes to watch this video, " The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore ." ...

In today's edition of The Columbus Dispatch , many of the regular Sunday comics commemorate, in one way or another, the tenth anniversar...

Here's a page torn from my sketchpad -- a simple image , massaged a bit in Photoshop, becomes an appealing desktop background.

[Adapted from the 1914 edition of U.S. War Department Pamphlet No. 1866: Description of the Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, Model of 1911, w...

I'll conclude my peek at government comics with two on Civil Defense . The FCDA tapped cartoonist Al Capp to draw Mr. Civil Defe...

I know it's hard to imagine, but political correctness hasn't always been with us. Witness these examples, clipped from military ...

[Click  here to download a .pdf version from the University of Nebraska Libraries' Image & Multimedia Collections. For more govern...

Well, we didn't have to wait for the new Congress to be seated -- we have our gridlock now . Oh, there's plenty of actual governing ...

"I may not know art," as the saying goes, "but I know what I like." The KintlaLake home never will be mistaken for a fi...