Comic Strip News and Revues
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After a month off Rachel Merrill returned as Gil Thorp artist for only two weeks before handing it off to Kit Mills again for an undetermined guest artist run. While Guest Jumbler week at Jumble keeps rolling along.
Loose Parts this week brought back memories for old Marvelmaniacs.
New GoComics Standards
GoComics has published their set of standards:
We introduced an Editorial Standards page that outlines how we work with creators and what falls outside our content guidelines. It also describes the internal review board that evaluates any content concerns.
GoComics reserves the right to remove any creator’s content from GoComics.com that strays from the site’s brand standards, namely if the content (1) is profane, lewd, obscene, violent, and/or threatening; (2) contains expressions of hatred, bigotry, racism, bullying or name calling; (3) is illegal or would otherwise constitute or encourage a criminal offense; (4) intends to praise, promote, or aid any violent extremist organization.
Which may explain JC Duffy’s Lug Nuts toning down the nakedness for the past several months that, for a time, seemed to be a weekly feature there. For example today’s bottom panel line would have extended farther down in the recent past. Though I was amazed to see the full Adam in yesterday’s Speed Bump. Does depiction of classic art meet the standards, or is it that the panel comes from a different syndicate?
The Old and the New
I hadn’t noticed that Michael Fry and T. Lewis are on vacation this week until today’s comic.
Everyone knows that Verne and RJ are 30 years old in human years.
Which reminds me to note a subject that came up earlier this month. Daddy’s Home is back on schedule.
It seems that the daily Frank and Ernest gags are reworked or reprinted from past strips. And while the dailies borrow from past Sunday comics, the Sunday pages are all new as far as I can tell.
Speaking of borrowing…
Stephen Bentley has taken to paging through Bartlett’s for his Herb and Jamaal strip. Today was the sixth quote used this month and last month also had six quotes. I don’t have a problem with it but the frequent use of quotes is noticeable.
Lio Speaks!
Yes Lio communicates, usually with notes or signs. I’m sure Tatulli has even had speech balloons emanating from Lio but would contain images not words. Is this Lio using a word balloon a first?
late add:
Rick McKee’s Mt. Pleasant Sojourn
From Rick McKee Ink (Rick McKee‘s Substack):
When I got laid off from my staff cartoonist job at the Augusta Chronicle after working there almost 30 years, I took it as an opportunity to pursue a project that had been stirring around in my brain for many years: Creating a comic strip based on experiences I had as a city kid who moved to a farm in a very remote, rural area, Mt. Pleasant, Florida. I teamed up with a writer, Kent Sligh, who had worked with the Dustin team for decades, and we came up with what I thought was a pretty good strip.
So, it was a tough sell and a massive amount of work for very little compensation. We produced the strip for two years before I just physically couldn’t do it [and the daily and Sunday Pluggers] anymore. I was proud of what we had done, but it was time to pull the plug.
And Now The News
Launched in 2005, The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee quickly stood out for its mix of humor, heart, and clever commentary. The strip’s blend of science, satire, and family dynamics keeps it both timeless and timely.
Later:
Even after 19 years, John still inks Edison Lee the old-fashioned way, with brushes, pens, and whiteout. His wife, Anne Hambrock, handles the coloring, adding the bright, dynamic palette that makes the strip pop online.
The 19 years is correct. I suppose the 2005 could be considered as the starting point of John Hambrock coming up and creating the idea of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, but it debuted on November 12, 2006.
Anyway… in celebration of Edison Lee’s 19th anniversary Alex Garcia interviews cartoonist John Hambrock.
Not on Inside the Kingdom is a long but fascinating interview with King Features cartoonist Jim Keefe.
The Deconstructing Comics Podcast interviews Jim Keefe, former Flash Gordon and current Sally Forth cartoonist. During the 100 minute audio inteview Keefe talks about the new Dan Schkade Flash Gordon, his decades in the King Features bullpen, John Romita’s Spider-Man newspaper strip, Kirby and Ditko at Marvel, his training at The Joe Kubert School, how he got and gave up the Flash Gordon gig, the syndicates and cartoonists moving from analog to digital, his future plans on WWII, and, yes, Sally Forth.
Well worth an hour and a half of your free time.
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