Fourth Wall Funnies and More
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Our look at the recent fourth wall comics kinda sorta started 15 years ago as Petey Otterloop spent the summer of 2010 at Cartoon Camp. Those strips have been showing up in Andrews McMeel Syndication’s Cul de Sac reruns during this July (starting here on the GoComics site).
But this weekend saw a few comic strips, or comic panels as the case may be, go native.
Dave Whamond made a self-deprating gag in celebrating a holiday in Day by Dave‘s Saturday toon.
While Todd Clark took a jab at a fellow cartoonist in that same day’s Lola.
Stephan Pastis took a shot at the creative process, starring himself, today in Pearls Before Swine.
Neither Pastis nor Michael Fry and T. Lewis are strangers to having their characters recognizing where they are in the scheme of thing as today’s Over the Hedge demonstrates.
Though I think that Over the Hedge would have worked better 15 years ago when those Cul de Sac strips first appeared and daily color comics weren’t so universal on websites and in print as they are these days.
Better yet when Percy Crosby’s Skippy was appearing and referencing Ollie Harrington‘s comic panel.
Or maybe it was a different Dark Laughter Crosby was referencing in 1926.
Elsewhere…
Does the Arc of the Universe bend toward Justice? Hammy has the answer:
Most of us would really like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s word to ring true despite current events.
Others just want the justice of seeing a complete On the Fastrack.
The Daily Cartoonist is here to serve.
(The “Buy a print of this comic” link below the strip on Comics Kingdom has the full strip.)
Sunday Synchronicity
Rosebuds by Supr Dee and Frazz by Jef Mallett visited the same pond today with similar results.
As Trump is visiting his Scottish golf courses Jules Rivera in Mark Trail informs about such sporting venues.
My preference would be to reinvent Judge Parker as April Parker, Secret Agent X-9.
Speaking of Secret Agent X-9 … I was this many years old when I learned that that comic strip’s artistic co-creator, Alex Raymond, put another one of his strips on a six week hiatus during the Spring of 1935 (April 7 – May 12) while his third strip, Flash Gordon went full-page.
Has it ever been in the comics history books that the Sunday only Jungle Jim‘s actual running dates are January 7, 1934 – March 31, 1935 and May 19, 1935 – August 8, 1954? With that six week intermission?
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