The Lighter Side of… The Sunday Funnies
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And here I thought it was the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in a Leap Year.
Around this time of year I give a pop quiz to the kids and grandkids asking when does Easter take place every year. Victor Van Acker answers in one panel.
In about six months I’ll be asking on what day the U.S. Presidential election happens. Though with early and mail-in voting it is harder to convince them of that particular day.
By the way Dumplings regularly appears in print, along with Never Been Deader and Insanity Streak, as part of the Antelope Valley Press comics pages at the least.
It’s A MAD MAD MAD MAD World
Always enjoy when Cantú and Castellanos riff off their cartooning roots. This homage would be familiar to anyone growing up in the last half of the last century, and the lady as pictured in panels 7 and 8 could even fit comfortably in pages drawn by Dave Berg.
So with MAD on my mind a few comic strips later was another reminder of the MAD magazine of my youth, though Tim Rickard twisted the idea so it wasn’t a tribute/swipe and I probably never would have thought of Al Jaffee‘s conceit had not Baldo appeared earlier in the scroll.
Then in a bit of serendipity, and again only because it followed so closely to my reading Brewster Rockit, Greg Craven‘s The Buckets offered some synchronicity.
Which Two Scenes Are Exactly Alike?
I believe this is the first time that Jeff Weigel has altered The Sunday Phantom title panel (which changes with every new adventure) during the course of an adventure. I wonder if the Kit Walker on the right will be clad in the costume of the first Phantom by the end of this origin story.
Our quiz: none of the above panels are exactly alike, can you spot the difference in panels two and three?
Elsewhen in The Phantom Tony DePaul and Mike Manley show us where The Maltese Falcon ended up.
Also earlier this week we discover that The Skull Cave has been around for untold millennia:
On the Shoulders of Giants
Randy Milholland, as is his wont, once again pays tribute to his cartooning ancestors, this time they being Swinnerton, Opper, and Dirks.
Which reminds me…
to take Alex Hallatt to task for not including Little Lulu or Little Nemo, or even Little Noddy from her home country, as part of her Little Library. (Li’l Abner?)
Even the Cartoonists are Having Trouble Reading the Comments
Pab Sungenis is one of many GoComics subscribers who have not been able to read the comments there. As we have noted here the trick is to log off and then sign back in to restore that function.
Someone let Pab know.
Though Caroline Cash and Olivia Jaimes think ignoring that part of GoComics is better for the creators.
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