TDC’s Second Big Comics Section
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Nancy has taken a strange turn lately. Not in a historically strange Nancy comic strip way, but in a strange for cartoonist Olivia Jaimes way. Since Olivia started riffing on cartoonists and comics a couple weeks ago (the change struck even earlier in July) it seems she has taken to emulating the prime Ernie Bushmiller gags that Nancy fans embrace. Going so far as to improvising a Nancy Classic.
Speaking of a blast from the past – the San Francisco Chronicle logo on The Family Circus trolley struck me as strange since I lived in the San Francisco newspapers’ distribution area and I knew that, back in the day, it was Hearst’s Examiner that carries the King Features strips not De Young’s Chronicle. Sure enough:
In the year 2000 The Chronicle was sold to the Hearst organization (I believe at that time a major earthquake hit the Bay Area as the all the De Young ancestors rolled in their graves). So a change on the street car was needed. But that change happened when Bil Keane reran the sequence in 2002:
A more recent “that reminds me of” moment was today’s Broom-Hilda.
I thought of Tom the Dancing Bug comic strips with Broom-Hilda playing the part of Hollingsworth Hound and Irwin in the role of Lucky Ducky.
A new ‘myskery’ adventure begins in today’s Sunday Popeye.
Is it strange that the sequential subtitle panels of the past week’s Sally Forth have stuck in my head more than the daily gag comics? Meanwhile cartoonist Jim Keefe explains that today’s Sally Forth art is partly a homage to Godzilla comic book artist Herb Trimpe.
Dark Side of the Horse continues to impress with its multi-gag Sunday format. Sort of like The Lockhorns multi-gag Sunday page (or the old Grin and Bear It Sundays) but formatted as a Sunday comic strip instead of individual panels.
Liniers, Newspaper Strips Silver Reuben Award winner for Macanudo, continues to score with his sequential art continuity from title panel to comic strip on Sundays.
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