
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.

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.

A beautiful face in the depths of a geyser—and Kirby plunges into a desperate mid-Earth conflict with the dreadful Feathered Serpent, in this rediscovered 1930 lost world scifi masterpiece by a forgotten writer

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first influential African American poets in American literature. Here is his August poem.

On a quiet June morning by the sea, a curious crowd gathers to watch Captain Fazakerley’s strange submarine rise from the waves. Among them, two cousins and a young artist find their fates unexpectedly entwined in this tale of invention, desire and daring.

She was both a mirror and a mystery. I loved her. But who was she?

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.

A great cry went up from the two lost explorers. “Whurroo!” shouted Barney, “it’s the Explorer, as sure as I’m a Tipperary man, Misther Frank.” “The Explorer!” gasped Frank, “but how on earth did it get here?” Read an original steampunk adventure from 1902!

In the quiet of autumn, Ivy prepares to leave behind her beloved garden, the memories of her lifelong companions, and one last unexpected friendship.

Inspired by a 1925 New Yorker cartoon drawn by Peter Arno, but our version is better, because it has a mermaid in it.

Let’s imagine 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, that it was forgotten for ninety-nine years till a researcher at Oblivioni Magazine rediscovered it. What would happen next?
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