Comic Strips and Comic Stripping
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Midweek Olivia Jaimes began what a series of Nancy strips riffing on her profession. While Richard Thompson in the throwback Cul de Sac show us how those unorganized underground cartoonists probably created those jam comix.
Previewing next week’s Reuben Awards yesterday we had Intelligent Life, Macanudo, and Thatababy celebrating recognizable comic strips of the past and present.
Of course the purpose of The Funnies is to bring a bit of levity into our lives.
And Delocked gave me the Laugh of the Week.
Also we, well I anyway, look for adventure. The current stories in The Phantom and Flash Gordon have a bit of synchronicity about them with the heroes attempting to help free forced laborers.
The (daily) Phantom story began on June 16, 2025. While Dan Schkade doesn’t have such clear cut beginnings and endings as Tony DePaul, June 6, 2025 is a good place to start the current Flash Gordon adventure(s).
Confused. But then Dick Tracy is a mystery detective adventure.
I don’t understand naming the villain “Tess” since Tess Tracy (née Trueheart) has been a character of the strip since the very first daily strip. Though I can’t remember the last time Mrs. Tracy appeared in the comic. The current story started a month ago on July 13, 2025.
Comic Stripping.
Brooke McEldowney is getting more brazen with the portrayal of sexuality with his 9 Chickweed Lane.
The above strip sent me on a quest to see if 9 Chickweed Lane appears in any print newspapers, and I can find no evidence that it does. Yes it shows up on newspaper websites as part of the GoComic platform, and it is part of Advance Local’s E-Edition Extras.
But nothing I find has it showing up in print.
However my search did turn up a recent interview of Brooke by his daughter from April of this year.
Nicola: On another note, a lot of people are curious about the reasoning behind the time lapses in Chickweed Lane. What inspired those? Are we likely to see more of Polly and Lolly as children, and Edda and Amos raising them? I get the sense this is something people would like to see — Edda and Amos as young parents, stories set prior to the “future” arc we’re currently in with Lolly and Polly grown up.
Brooke: In my will-o’-the-wisp way, I will return to Polly and Lolly as children when the the inspiration moves me. I don’t plan anything ahead.
Among other things Brooke discusses plans for Pibgorn and the “perception of erogeneity.”
Still on the subject of confusion and titillation in the comics…
GoComics has rebooted Liberty Meadows from the beginning without ever running the ending. They did, apparently, run a bunch of post-syndicated Liberty Meadows strips that Frank Cho didn’t include in the four years and nine months of the original run or created afterward.
Granted the syndicated comic strip ended on a cliffhanger.
But running the last strips up to the unresolved ending is no worse than what they did.
And Finally.
Here I noted the changes in the Blondie/Dagwood seating arrangement being changed.
Well it must have been another room in the house as I put forward because in a Future Funnies item:
But I did find an early example of the Bumstead’s living room layout in the Blondie comic strip.
“An early example” not necessarily the earliest.
feature image by Chester Brown from Paying For It
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