I was trying to thin out the boxes of stuff in my closet this weekend and came across this example of “Freckles and His Friends” from the 1920s, probably 1923 or 24. Back in the 1990s, I produced a weekly historical piece for the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh, NY, that involved going back through all the […]
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, with a commentary on the state of education.Edison Lee is a solid little strip that will celebrate five years of syndication in November, and John Hambrock has managed over that time to develop a good sense of the ridiculous, after a period in the early days of being too […]
When I saw Norm Feuti at the One Fine Sunday exhibit in Boston this spring, we talked a little bit about Marla’s ongoing plan to open her own store and he told me he was going to do something with Retail that might be risky.So I’ve been watching the strip since then, trying to figure […]
A new interactive exhibit at Circus Circus Las Vegas is opening up based on the animation work of Chuck Jones. Chuck is best remembered as the creator of Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner and many other Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animations. The exhibit opens mid-October and allows visitors to learn and create animation. A […]
Sid Friedfertig has posted a treasury of rare Superman comic strips that ran between 1959 and 1966. As he explains, Superman first appeared as a daily comic strip in 1939 and ran through 1966 but most of the strips from about 1944 have not been reprinted. DC Comics and nostalgia publications have reprinted the first […]
You will really be missing something if you don’t go here and read this cartoon.On one level, the incident it bears witness to, the shootings of civilians by American contractors, is critically important and you should know about it. But let me get back to that.Dan Archer has created an interactive comic that uses its […]
Eddie Murphy has signed on to voice a revival of the short-lived Hanna-Barbera cartoon Hong Kong Phooey . The 1970’s TV show is based on a dog named Penry who is a “kung-fu fighting superhero who doubles as a janitor at a police station”.According to the IMDB, Murphy is the only talent cast so far. […]
Terri Libenson’s The Pajama Diaries is now found in book form. This is the first collection of the strip that debuted in 1996. Entitled The Pajama Diaries: Deja To-Do!, the book is a collection of Terri’s favorite daily and Sunday strips.
This Deep Cover doesn’t really plow a lot of new ground, but it’s something worth saying, and it dovetails nicely with yesterday’s Matt Bors cartoon, in that there should be conservatives calling b*llsh*t on those who claim to be Christian but who apparently haven’t done the reading, starting with that bit about praying on […]
If you’re a Scary Gary fan, you may know that Mark Buford has a book coming out. The book is entitled, “A Good Severed Head Is Hard to Find.” What you may not know is that right now Mark is taking pre-orders and Mark will be signing every copy that’s pre-ordered before September 1. Every. […]
Apparently not to be outdone by Lynn Johnston’s video I posted this morning about her memories of Charles Schulz (or ‘cuz writing profanity filled comics is less time consuming than coming up with something witty), Stephan Pastis has taken the time to post his own video remembering Lio creator Mark Tatulli.
Via Mike Lynch
Jon Carroll writing for the San Francisco Chronicle writes his fond memories of the great Pogo strip.Pogo had it all: love, fear, friendship, ambivalence, pails of water, morality, plus a love of high-flown language and, not incidentally, wonderful draftsmanship. Kelly was a master of getting a lot of stuff in one small panel. … One […]
Last week I posted a letter to the editor by a certain offended reader of the Baltimore Sun who decried the profanity in Pearls Before Swine. Just to be clear, we’re not talking real swear words – we’re talking characters like @#$@. Then on Sunday, Scott Hilburn drops the big #%@!* in his strip. Yesterday […]
Okay, here’s why liberals lose elections: They’re not afraid to make fun of each other for taking things way too seriously. Matt Bors, I’m looking at you.When I heard about the Bert-and-Ernie petition, I assumed it was a joke and wondered why PBS took it seriously enough to even bother responding. And I thought the […]