Funnies, Sundays and Otherdays
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Curls, a Stone Age character from B.C., spent the week in The Middle Ages’ Kingdom of Id. While the Wizard Of Id spent time in prehistorical B.C. (supposedly). My biggest disappointment was that it didn’t turn in to a true crossover with the week’s B.C. comic strips showing The Wizard interacting with the cavemen.
Though the John Hart Studios crew did wait until the spell was reversed to show Curls back in B.C.
Speaking of timelines…
I always thought Hagar was closer to Sir Rodney’s era than Captain Ahab’s.
As long as I’m nitpicking…
I was under the impression that in Dick Tracy world all stations were tuned into WGN, the Chicago Tribune’s studio whose call letters stand for “World’s Greatest Newspaper.”
Gil Thorp has moved from the basketball court, the baseball diamond, and track and field to the golf course. Though one of the clubs is way too long (artistic license?) I give kudos to Rachel Merrill the sequential panels in Thursday’s comic strip showing a golf swing. It brought to mind Play Better Golf with Jack Nicklaus.
Today’s Thatababy was another memory inducer. Those full strip drawings broken into panels always remind me of those occasional Sunday pages of Gasoline Alley by Frank King.
I have been enjoying the humor and stories in The Saga of Brann Bjornson since it debuted on Comics Kingdom a couple years ago and this week creator Stephen Webster increased the appearance rate from four to seven days a week as announced yesterday. But geez Stephen, increase the size of the lettering along with the frequency!
And more news from Comics Kingdom:
But we’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what.
Lastly (and firstly) a Wayback Weekend entry.
Michael Maslin used his Wednesday Inkspill post to showcase the first and last New Yorker cartoons of Richard Oldden (1931-1995) quoting the cartoonist’s Lambiek Comiclopedia entry:
On 14 May 1973, Oldden and gag writer Sam Gross launched their daily newspaper comic ‘The Genius’ (1973-1977) through King Features Syndicate.”
I read that comic strip by way of The San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle. Here, to compliment Oldden’s first and last New Yorker cartoons are the first and last of his The Genius comic strip.
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