The Sunday Comics Supplemental – That Was Then, This Is Now
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It Was 20 Years Ago This Week
Edison Lee and his friends spent the summer at the mercy of his latest invention – an interactive holographic holosphere simulator.
The strip has a long history of Edison inventing things ever since the third strip in November of 2006.
Today The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee pays tribute to one of the greatest inventors of all time, i.e., Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts (A.K.) and his assistant Rube Goldberg.
Spoiler Alert!
Edison Lee creator John Hambrock will spend the next 7 days celebrating STEM Week and the 20th anniversary of the Nov. 12, 2006 newspaper debut of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee by recognizing 20 great (and real) inventors.
Was anyone else reminded of Billy’s dotted line trail from The Family Circus?
Back to inventions but staying with Wallace.
The Brilliant Mind of Wallace Maclellan invents the flying car as much as Elon Musk. Musk invented, or rather paid inventors to invent and then take credit for it, a car that did exactly what Wallace suggests but equipped with compressed air thrusters to ease the landing.
The Grim Historian show us a flying car from 89 years ago.
I like Caroline Cash‘s sketch of the Ernie Bushmiller “circus Nancy strip.” Even without the visual we knew what Cash was referring to. However the bounds of credibility was strained in suggesting Olivia Jaimes drawing in the style of Prince Valiant.
While foregoing reality is a part of enjoying comic strips thinking Jaimes could do something like today’s Prince Valiant is just to surreal to imagine.
Which brings us to…
Last month Comics Kingdom began filling in the enormous gaps in their Prince Valiant archives.
On Nov. 3 the Comics Kingdom Facebook page informed us the second part of the effort had been carried out. Unfortunately, as of this writing only portions of the 1939 to 1952 years have been added. The archives go from Feb. 13, 1937 to Oct. 25, 1942 then there is an 8 year gap until it starts again with the Dec. 31, 1950 page running to Dec. 28, 1952. Then starting again with the Murphy Era at Dec. 31, 1995.
So not quite a done deal yet. Since I have the first 10 Fantagraphics volumes I am not terribly disturbed by the missing years, but I am hoping to get “The Foster Years, Part II” next month with the last half of the 1950s and the Foster 1960s.
I did it in reverse order, movie first then the book, and was charmed by both so I consider the order immaterial.
On the other hand having gone nuts over the first two Bourne movies i got the third Ultimatum book and couldn’t get past the first couple dozen pages since Marie was still alive though killed in the second movie.
Yeah, plenty of Fall themes in the gag strips but, again, I am impressed with Mike Manley keeping track of the seasons in Judge Parker. A rarity in most of the story strips, especially the soap strips (though Terry Beatty got an early jump on it).
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