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Some things noted of recent comic strips.
From the last few days of Dan Schkade’s Flash Gordon …
comes a sequence that reminded me of another scene:
While as 9 Chickweed Lane kicked off a week of definitions I’m reminded that Brooke McEldowney cut off comments on his strip because he could brook no opposing viewpoints.
Something new under The Daily Sun?
I can’t remember ever seeing the Venn Diagram being used as part of a comic strip’s dialogue balloons before as Lincoln Peirce did in Big Nate earlier this week.
Something else I don’t remember is Chip Dunham using Overboard for an environmental message, but more crossovers with Sherman’s Lagoon wouldn’t be a bad thing. (Okay, it ain’t really an SL crossover.)
The Tao of Pig:
Occasionally Stephan Pastis uses Pearls Before Swine, as he did Monday, for a message to humankind.
Comics Kingdom this week celebrated their “Class of 2025.”
They are all webcomics except for Amber Waves by Dave T. Phipps which is distributed by King Features Weekly Service (KFWS). The addition of Amber Waves to the Comics Kingdom lineup this year makes me want them to add the other original KFWS comics to the page: Out On a Limb by Gary Kopervas; The Spats by Jeff Pickering; and Dave T. Phipps’ panel Just LIke Cats and Dogs. Until that happens we have The Sidney Sun-Telegraph.
Dagwood in “Blondie” is obsessed with eating the most unhealthy, gargantuan sandwiches
“Doonesbury” that was supposed to take me to a list of MAGA’s banned words
“WuMo” MustGo! It’s not funny or clever, as hard as Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler try.
I request that you remove “Heart of the City” from your comics lineup.
In her May 17 Free for All letter, “It’s unfunny because it’s true,” Anne Schwartz suggested that The Post consider eliminating “Prickly City.” It is the best political cartoon in the paper.
The “Beetle Bailey” cartoon glorifies bullying and physical abuse; The Post needs to eliminate it
…the half-page dedicated to Edith Pritchett’s cartoons. Please stop squandering precious space
I am not easily moved to tears, but Harry Bliss’s May 4 Book World article, “Loving my dog Penny meant digging her grave,” sure did the trick.
The Washington Post devotes about half of Friday’s letters’ page to reader comments about their comics page. “Readers critique The Post: These long-running comic strips are offensive.” Or here.
My complaints, on the other hand, are quite mundane.
I want Pat Marrin to give The Leo Chronicles its own GoComics page rather than be subsumed by Francis.
It was just this week I noticed that …
Glenn McCoy has for the most part (Sundays and a few dailies excepted) stopped drawing eyeballs behind Eno’s glasses. When Glenn returned to The Duplex at the turn of the year a few changes were made to the artwork – eyeballs being one. But since early April he has mostly forsaken that moyif.
The Daily Cartoonist’s public service program today is for fans of Addison’s (Mort Walker’s) Boner’s Ark.
Below are the September 2-7, 1968 Boner’s Ark comic strips from The Quad City Times via newspapers.com.
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