Your Sunday Funnies: The Yellow Kid
A terrific “Yellow Kid” comic strip from 130 years ago.
January 25, 2026
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Art of the Day: Nineteenth-Century Trade Card, “Royal Glue Mends Everything”
A long time ago, there was a product on the market that could mend everything. Imagine that!
January 6, 2026
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A Comic Strip from December 1925: What were we complaining about a hundred years ago?
1925 really was a simpler time, with much less to complain about.
December 28, 2025
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From 1925: How to Be a Bore
There are a lot of different ways to be a bore, and they have not changed much in the last one hundred years.
December 5, 2025
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Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds
Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones
October 24, 2025
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The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
From Pliny’s tale of Kora tracing her lover’s shadow to neoclassical canvases where love and loss intertwine, artists have long imagined desire as the seed of representation. How did clay, shadow and longing gave rise to the mythic origins of painting and sculpture?
September 26, 2025
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Your Sunday Funnies: Ella Cinders
Ella Cinders was a long-running American comic strip created in 1925 by writer Bill Conselman and artist Charles Plumb, inspired by the Cinderella story but set in modern times.
September 7, 2025
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Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores the early modern fascination with this quasi-spiritual technology and the magic, melancholy, and dream-like experiences it produced.
August 27, 2025
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Ruby the Flapper: More Jazz Age Comics from 1926
It is possible that in 1926, Betty Lynne Broome, one of the few women working as a cartoonist in the Jazz Age, created a short-lived comic strip about a flapper, and, assuming that is a fact, it is also possible that a researcher at Oblivioni Magazine rediscovered it in May 2025. What a discover that would be! It would really be something you would want to read.
July 27, 2025
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Can animals make art?
Charles Darwin said that some animals appreciate beauty. Is the beauty that animals create “art”?
July 22, 2025
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