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From Biographic is everything you need to know about Christiano Ronaldo:
Andrews McMeel has their GoComics site fixed, now they need to work on the newspapers’ e-editions.
Speaking of Steve McGarry – he returned to KidTown today after handing it over to Luke McGarry for June.
I always thought Bob Scott used actual newspaper Sunday comic section mastheads for his Sunday Molly and the Bear. But it seems he also adapts classic comic book covers for the task.
While Flash Gordon spent the week doing his impression of Magnus, Robot Fighter.
According to Terry (Rex Morgan) Beatty The Art of George Wilson, the cover artist of that Magnus, Robot Fighter comic book above, has finally been released after a two year wait.
An acknowledgement from Dan Thompson of Ralph Steadman would have been nice in Friday’s Brevity.
But then Bill Amend didn’t give a hat tip to David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek today.
We’ve had Little Archie, Mini Marvels, and Tiny Titans. Now Liniers gives us Li’l Psychos in Macanudo.
Backstage at the Strips:
Now we know the troubles cartoonists have seen for their art. From Wayno’s Blog:
I reversed the staging for the strip layout, which allowed me to place the word balloon and caption box on the same end of the composition. Otherwise, there would have been no room for the characters.
The “If I ever knew this I’d forgotten it” Dept.
In a recent Jack Ohman’s You Betcha! substack entry he reminisced about his old Mixed Media comic strip.
In 1994, I launched a comic strip called Mixed Media.
I drew Mixed Media for four years for then-Tribune Media Services, after a few vague efforts to create a strip prior to that. The premise of Mixed Media was fun commentary on the media culture.
It led to exhaustion and bad memories so he turned down offers to take on other comic strips:
In 2011, I think it was, cartoonist Steve Kelley called me and asked if I’d be available to do the art on “Dustin” and I declined, saying I would never, ever draw a comic strip ever again. Earlier, I also turned down “Pluggers” before Jeff MacNelly agreed to do it.
Now everything you read about Pluggers is that it was “created” by Jeff MacNelly, but that wasn’t the case. Jeff himself admits such in a Cartoonist PROfiles interview (“I have four partners – they’re the guys who came up with the original concept”) and when the panel debuted the actual creators were credited.
So let’s add Nick Nicholas, Stephen Kline, Charles Jennings, and David Hume Kennerly to the list of Pluggers creators.
But here’s something you didn’t know about Patrick McDonnell: He played drums in a punk band called Steel Tips that played regularly at CBGB’s in New York, and often with the Ramones. One might say that McDonnell is a layered individual, which we dive into during our Superfan Podcast episode with him! An episode not to be missed, as many amazingly fun anecdotes are shared! And we’ll even get into how the subject of his fandom has made its way into his current work.
The Superfan Podcast Substack tells us of a (very) little known fact about cartoonist Patrick McDonnell.
Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
I’ve mentioned Frank and Ernest‘s use of photographs in the comic strip before in an unapproving way because I don’t think the pictures come through very well on newsprint.
While certainly not as clear as shown at GoComics today’s Frank and Ernest comic showed up in my Sunday comics supplement with amazing clarity.
While commenters at today’s Luann are concentrating on climate change and household fans, my mind focused on the time paradox of that first panel appearing as a picture on the fridge door.
By the way: Comic-Con Museum “40 Years of Luann” Exhibit Opening June 30:
“Growing Up Luann: 40 Years of Comics” invites visitors to walk through four decades of laughter, awkwardness, heartbreak, and growth alongside Luann DeGroot and her circle of friends and family. From creator Greg Evans’s early rejection letters to original artwork and impactful storylines — including Luann’s period strip that broke barriers in syndication — this exhibit offers a personal look at a comic that helped readers of all ages feel seen.
Deon Parson gives a shout-out to his local Anderson Herald Bulletin, the paper his comic strip first appeared in print, in today’s Rosebuds.
But what are those comic strips? 9 Lives = Garfield? Military Marty = Beetle Bailey? Maid Maddie = Hazel?
Not is it art; instead: it is art.
There’s some impressive drawing in today’s Prince Valiant by Thomas Yeates (and Mark Schultz‘s adventure story is good too)!
feature image by Roger Langridge
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