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While Bill Hinds seems to be the permanent cartoonist for Marmaduke now, Kit Mills has stepped in for Rachel Merrill as the Gil Thorp “guest artist” for this week at least. We’ll see how long the guest stays.
I can only guess that Rachel needed some time to work on her and Henry Barajas‘ Death to Pachuco.
Barajas and Mills collaborated on a comic book story last year.
Rumors
A Flash Gordon/Dan Dare Teamup?
John Freeman at downthetubes takes a Dan Schkade mention of Dan Dare and what ifs.
Flash Gordon daily strip artist Dan Schkade recently kicked off discussion of a Dan Dare reboot, prompting suggestions of a crossover with the King Features owned space hero.
Posting his take on Dan Dare, first seen in the British weekly, Eagle in 1950, Dan commented on BlueSky: “I don’t think we’ve had a new Dan Dare series in a while.
“You nailed it, sir!,” [Chris Weston] responded. “Just recently I was imagining a Flash Gordon/Dan Dare crossover! I’m gonna think even harder about it now! … It would be fun to play up the British/American cultural differences! Flash is a bit more two-fisted than Dan! Ming and the Mekon could be great double act too!”
“Totally!” Dan replied. “There’s a great contrast between Dan being a disciplined military man who’s essentially just doing his job and Flash being this weird athlete turned freelance freedom fighter. I’d love to get Zarkov and Peabody in a room, too.”
Rachel Merrill isn’t the only one taking a break from the comics page, so is Emi Brudge – supposedly.
It seems the concensus is that Olive Oyl cartoonist Emi Burdge is taking some time off rather than the character just enjoying a quiet interlude between adventures.
IF Emi does take a vacation from Olive & Popeye will King Features Weekly Service issue reruns? Engage a guest artist to do some strips?
There are newspapers that run the Olive part of the comic, will they just switch over to Milholland’s Popeye portion in the middle of that story?
That Other KFS Olive
Okay, now I’m starting to wonder if the Olive kid in Mary Worth is a hero or a jinx.
Like Joe Btfsplk bad things seem to follow where ever Olive goes.
Banned Book Week
feature image from the September 8, 1975 Li’l Abner comic strip by Al Capp
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