The Topsy Turvy Sunday Funnies
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For the second time in a month Koko is Out of the Inkwell and into a Zippy strip. Bill Griffith has always referenced classic comics but he seems to be it it more since working on his graphic autobiography.
Though not as often as A.I. in Carpe Diem. Those robots are now the de facto stars of the strip.
Trudeau messin’ with the paginators.
Not GoComics, not ArcaMax, not even Doonesbury’s homepage at The Washington Post could adjust to printing today’s Sunday Doonesbury right side up as a half page. GoComics and ArcaMAx are able to post half page Sunday comic strips of 9 Chickweed Lane and Arlo and Janis and others but can’t adapt when Garry Trudeau deviates from his nine panel grid. No worries The Daily Cartoonist has your back with the help of the Weekend Stars and Stripes edition:
I wonder how much the popular and very visual Doonesbury had on a decision to control Stars and Stripes content. From Nick Mordowanec at Military.com:
Stars & Stripes reported Friday that an 8-page memo, written by Pentagon leaders and combatant commanders and without Stars and Stripes’ input, limits the use of wire services, bars comics [emphasis added] and other syndicated features, and states that content must be consistent with “good order and discipline,” borrowing a phrase from the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
We’re also saving neck cramps by rotating today’s Crankshaft (and providing the original inspiration):
Ch-ch-ch-changes
We reported this last week but it is now current so we will note again of Mimi Simon helping Terry Beatty by taking on the art chores of Rex Morgan, M.D. for a month (March 22 to April 18, 2026).
After today’s ghosting of the art Mimi will be signing the strip.
Also today Ripley’s Believe It or Not returns to new Sunday material with a DeJoy page.
That marks the end of the John Graziano reprints that ran daily February 2 to February 21, 2026; the Sunday Graziano reprints ran February 22 to March 15, 2026.
An aside: despite suggestions to the contrary Kieran Castaño assures TDC that he is not “Aquino.”
Rarities
It is rare for a gag-a-day comic strip to roll the weekday continuity over to the Sunday page but that is what happened this week with Curtis. Though truth be told the Sunday strip can be a stand-alone comic with all the principles being completely in-character.
Don’t want to turn this political but I need to note Tom Stiglich adapting a Kinks album cover to a cartoon.
What shouldn’t be rare
Rosebuds wins my favorite comic strip of the day award. I love how the sisters, in spite of minor aggravations, love and are there for each other. Today was particularly well done.
feature image by Gustave Verbeek from The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo
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