Notes From The Daily Funny Pages
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Sunday: To Comma or Not To Comma and Two Title Panels
Two words in Rubes and two words in Cowtown, both with the proper use of the comma or lack thereof.
I think my favorite part of The Sunday Funnies was the dinosaur vignette in Little Oop‘s title panel. Also, for no reason I can discern, the Garfield title panel portrayed the original version of the character. (The dinosaur scene did relate to the strip below it.)
Monday: Rocks and Rolling with Ear Worms
Are three rocks, as in Hagar the Horrible, now de rigueur for comic strips? Dustin had a couple songs that had me briefly singing lyrics, but the premise of the strip had me thinking of Donovan whose song I always sang as “Coulda tripped out DC but I’ve changed my ways.” While Off the Mark had me singing the theme song for a favorite TV cartoon series from my youth. Off the Mark also has the first words to another song that I couldn’t help but sing.
Tuesday: More youthful thoughts
In the early 60s, before I became a complete Marvel Zombie for a half dozen years one of my favorite comic books was Metal Men. Reality Check brought that back to mind Tuesday.
Wednesday: Food for Folks, Hay for Horses
Like Curtis I just can’t understand people who take food away from children. Like Emo at The Duplex I can’t understand adding things to a perfect sandwich. A BLT is how you eat bacon on a sandwich, one just does not ruin a cheeseburger by adding bacon to it.
Drabble has, this week, been riffing on things that cartoonists find hard to draw, like a soccer ball. By Wednesday the strip had moved on to horses. Perhaps Kevin Fagan could ask fellow cartoonist Gary, one of The Flying McCoys, for art lessons. Or not.
Friday: Politics, Praise, and Paper Moons
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith avoids politics but today seems to touch on a current trend in the U.S. judicial system. Mike du Jour has become more and political and this week it has attacked the NFL for woke end zone messaging. For some reason “End Racism” is the major burr under his saddle this week.
Working Daze seems to me, and my art IDing powers are suspect, to pay homage to Fred Ray’s Batman.
And Monty bring us to another ear worm, a great one. Nat King Cole sings one of many versions, my version.
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