Mid-Week Funnies – Part One
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If you can’t trust cartoonists, who?
Like Monty I read the daily comics, unlike Monty mostly online since my local only carries six comics, two of the three mentioned above. Barely moving on we come to Daddy Daze where we find out that we can’t trust cartoonists.
Rory out of The Barn is just flat out wrong!
And I’m having a hard time believing Lennie as to how those other cartoonists feed the GoComics kitty.
I believe that that is the process for The Big Picture and other online comics are transferred to the GoComics portal, but find it inconceivable that Bill Watterson, Jim Davis, and Stephan Pastis post their syndicated comic strips to GoComics. I would think that Andrews McMeel would be responsible for that task once the cartoonists send their creations to AMS. (And what’s with “Universal Press” – the syndicate has been through a couple name changes since it was called that.)
Since we mentioned Bill Watterson:
Heritage Auction has a letter and specialty drawing of Calvin and Hobbes from Bill Watterson to the National Cartoonists Society thanking them for being awarded The Reuben in 1986. Currently $18,000/$22,500 with seven days left to bid.
Since I read those AMS comics by way of my favorites list on GoComics I don’t know about the added “Extras” unless GoComics notifies me through their e-newsletter. So it was that i found out about the latest(?) Garfield extra: “What Type of Cat is Garfield?”
It’s pretty easy to pick our lasagna-loving feline, Garfield, out of a lineup. But sometimes we wonder: just what breed is he?
I took the question straight to “Garfield”’s creator himself: Jim Davis.
There has got to be a better way to find a new GoComics article than to check every comics’ “Extra” link every day – which link is not included on our “favorites” pages. Comics Kingdom has a nice page set aside for their new notices. It’s time to reset your blog GoComics!
Veterans’ Day
November 11 was this week and as I had mentioned elsewhere there were a few note worthy strips. The Dogs of C-Kennel Veterans Day strip was highlighted in our post of that day (scroll to the bottom). But the others should get a few huzzahs. They include…
FurBabies had a wonderful tribute, a beautiful black strip accentuated with white and a couple small spots of color. One being a red poppy – touching.
And Arlo and Janis was also a nice tribute to veterans.
BUT … I also had a father that served in WWII and all I could think of was that Arlo isn’t near my age. While I understand that Arlo is a surrogate Jimmy Johnson I think it is time to update Arlo, who I take to be in his forties, to be the grandson of a World War Two veteran or the son of a Vietnam vet.
Then today Jimmy Johnson again shows his age, and his comic strip knowledge and fannishness.
Reruns
I was truck by the fantastic sequential art in those first three panels of Cul de Sac.
And I loved the juztaposition of Maggie’s open singing voice and the balloon signifying the sound.
George McManus is justly praised for his expansive Sunday page designs but his (and Zeke Zekley) use of blacks and whites in the daily Bringing Up Father is also very eye catching.
Memorial Day
Not entirely sure if that Brevity is a tribute – there is no doubt the Thatababy is.
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