Assorted, Mostly Sunday, Funnies
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GoComics still shuffling the deck
The top tiers for some Andrews McMeel Syndication strips have returned (Adam @ Home and Big Nate) while others are still not being made whole (The Born Loser and JumpStart). I was particularly happy to see the Little Oop and Dark Side of the Horse top tiers restored as I have enjoyed Lemon’s little side illustrations at the right side of the title since he and Sayers have taken over the strip, and the top tier of Horace the Horse’s Sunday strip always includes one or more gags of the four or five found there every Sunday.
A strange shuffle was the eight panel version of Doonesbury finally including the title panel, but then cutting one of the other top tier panels. For everyone’s edification here is what should have been the third panel in the half page nine-panel grid:
Not the top tier of a three layered comic strip, but…
The first three panels of Breaking Cat News struck me as what could have been drop panels for the strip today. It sort of was an introduction to and at the same time separate from the main strip.
Return with us to …
Mike has put up the entire (meaning the black plate) Non Sequitur which is apparently set on a twelve hour delay at GoComics as this Sunday and last Sunday the black lines were added late in the day.
But is nobody questioning the massive supersizing of the vertical Sundays lately?
I’m not betting my 1960s King comic book run of Flash Gordon on it – because, even though we know Ming will return sooner of later, Dan Schkade is becoming well-known for throwing curve balls – but is this the return of The Emperor or some other Flash nemesis of the past?
Today’s Herman comic strip brought to mind Addison’s (Mort Walker’s) Boner’s Ark.
Of course Boner’s Ark was already in my head because Allan Holtz had recently given us the last week of the comic strip that ran 25 years ago this month, making this a first and last post.
On the subject of comic history:
You know I just love the kind of background information that Scott Roberts give us today as to the creation of Maria’s Day by John Zakour, Andre Noel, and Scott Roberts.
I would like to know if it is my imagination or if artist Mike Manley has a different assistant helping him with this Sunday’s Judge Parker. The lines seem different (thicker) than I think of Manley’s finishes.
While comics are not news as Kevin proclaims in Crabgrass, they are part of The News unless you are some Old Gray Lady. Some are educational while some are just laugh out loud funny as shown in Hi and Lois. Does anyone recognize any of the strips taped to Hi and Lois’ fridge?
Go Fourth and …
My grandson asked if I would be posting about Star Wars today. I told him that was more a comic book thing but that there would certainly be some newspaper comic strips about it. And, naturally, there were:
The Barn, Day by Dave, Foxtrot, Off the Mark, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Rhymes with Orange, The Saga of Brann Bjornson, Palurdeando, and others.
Two surprises: Mark Trail had a Star Wars connection and Thatababy went long ago it didn’t go far away.
And another note about the GoComics and Comics Kingdom changes.
For Comics Kingdom it seems that any “Vintage” comic strip that has a current counterpart are not being uploaded to the premium daily favorites. For example the Judge Parker above is only Judge Parker we receive now – no longer getting the vintage daily or vintage Sunday Judge Parker comics we used to get.
And the newspaper online portals for GoComics, which used to carry the last month of archives now only carry the previous week in their archives. That means I have to check Biographic every week so I don’t miss when Steve McGarry features The Kinks, and again I need a weekly check on KidTown so I can keep track of when Luke McGarry subs for his dad on that weekly feature (as he did this week).
GoComics/AMS helpfully informs us to “To view the full archive of this comic go to www.gocomics.com,” unfortunately GoComics hasn’t carried those two features, among some others, for years now.
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