Early August Comics Accounting
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A True Crossover
Starting off this week is a true crossover. not just guest appearances.
Sometime in the not-so-distant past Bob Scott, who lives in Southern California and whose comic strip Molly and the Bear appears on Andrew McMeel’s GoComics, got together with Deon Parson, who lives in Indiana and whose Rosebuds comic strip appears on King Features’ Comics Kingdom, and decided lend each other one of their characters for the week. The same week with the same premise. Intercompany crossover!
In Sync
Talking Lizards
Saturday Leftovers
To be honest that Herman originally appeared in 1985, serendipitously on August 2 of that year.
When Waitresses Marry
For the past couple of weeks both Rex Morgan, M.D. and Gasoline Alley have featured engaged waitresses.
New Stuff
Since I occasionally mention that Mutts is in rerun status it is only fair to note when a new Mutts appears.
As far as I can tell this is a new Mutts, not a reconfigured old strip.
Update: The new strip is part of the Adopt Love campaign with which Patrick McDonnell has partnered.
Ruben Bolling at Boing Boing covers the campaign to promote pet adoption and fostering.
With all that hullabaloo we raised about a new Blondie Sunday title panel a couple weeks ago this one slipped by us.
After going I-don’t-know-how-many years with just the comic’s title and that Sunday’s subtitle in the panel, the Dennis the Menace crew added a graphic to the lettering two weeks ago (I only noticed it yesterday).
Though it is not new art as seen in this 1996 Dennis the Menace Sunday drop tier (maybe redrawn?):
And then…
GoComics posted Sunday’s Pearls Before Swine in a vertical format for some reason – either to give my scrolling finger some exercise or for the benefit of those who read the strip on smart phones.
But here, courtesy of Arcamax, is the strip as the comic gods intended:
They also sent the vertical format to the newspaper websites’ platforms.
Miss Cellany
Saturday’s Moderately Confused instantly brought to mind Al Jaffee.
Always happy to see that shovel in a Hagar the Horrible comic strip to let me know Gary Hallgren is still at it.
I remain firm in my belief that nobody is better than June Brigman at drawing children on the comics pages.
feature image by Dana Summers from Bound and Gagged
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