The Other Paper’s Sunday Funnies
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Let’s pretend that there are still cities with two newspapers in the U.S. and this is the other’s funny pages.
Tiny Type
That other paper’s comics section featured a Nick Newman cartoon about our aging eyesight…
Which brought to mind today’s Flo and Friends.
There are a couple of legitimate fears there but the tiny fonts is more of a legitimate gripe. Manifesting itself on that same website’s (GoComics) posting some comics in a tab format necessitating annoying adjustments to read the comics. For example:
Behind the Comics
GoComics left Kieran Castaño’s color guides in place for the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Sunday feature. The error made it to newspaper’s e-edition platforms, though not to Ripley’s cartoon homepage.
Stephanie Piro makes note of the revolving cartoonists creating the Six Chix comic.
Unreal Reality
My first thought on reading today’s Reality Check was by mashing up two Beach Boys songs was that it prevented an earworm from invading my mind. Second thought was that the non-existant Caribbean Kokomo was not a proper reference for a feature titled Reality Check.
Yeah, it’s a comic, as is Flash Gordon which brought it’s own reality check:
Replace Aura with Donald Trump and Mongo with America and that panel takes on frightening speculation. Is Aura as benevolent and altruistic as we think?
Really? There are cities that pick up the trash twice weekly!!??
When Cartoonists Stray From What God Intended
Navied Mahdavian uses The Los Angeles Times Op-Comic to showcase the effort to expand his horizons.
Letters to the Editor
The Washington Post gets letters about their comics page (or here).
You just knew a week about some old pervert trying to get a woman would bring letters.
The Post has a great number of great cartoons. But the worst is definitely “Diamond Lil.” The Aug. 3 strip was typically inane and insulting, both to women and to men. Day after day, the little quips and puns are just tiresome.
Second-worst — and first-weirdest — is “Specktickles,” the one with all the triangular eyeglasses. Besides its ugly characters, the dialogue is contemptuous. Just look at the Aug. 2 strip.
“Pickles,” on the other hand, is the greatest.
On the other hand:
Any job that has to be performed routinely under a deadline is unenviable. So even the best cartoonists occasionally swing and miss under pressure. But this [August 5] collection in aggregate was the lamest in memory. Even my two favorites, “Pickles” and “Frank and Ernest,” were well short of the mark. I searched diligently but couldn’t muster a smile, much less an LOL.
Reply All Lighter?
While the Reply All comic strip was updated today the Reply All Lite panel version was not.
Not at the GoComics platform, nor at The Washington Post. Has the Sunday Reply All Lite been discontinued?
feature image from Crock by Brant Parker and Don Wilder (originally June 29, 1997)
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