Sundaze Funneez Vallyoom Whun
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With a post title like that we gots to start off with some weirdness.
For some reason my first thought on seeing the art style in today’s Baldo was Kim Deitch. Big Daddy Roth came up second. I can only account for that order because of David DeGrand‘s bald Baldo.
While yesterday’s Palurdeando brought to mind the old alphabet/symbol panel PIXies by Jack Wohl.
Back to the “a bit off” bend…
Retro Dick Tracy artist Howie Noel has set up a page with seven weeks, daily and Sunday, of his ersatz Chester Gould detective Clew. A fun-filled, if bloody, adventure that even includes Cigarette Sadie.
By the way, Scott Roberts gives us a classic Dick Tracy image at Working Daze this Sunday.
In other comic strip guest appearances we have Crankshaft in La Cucaracha and Andy [C]App in Brevity.
and a dozen cameos in Thatababy:
It’s About Timing, It’s About Spacing
We got two panels that had good timing yesterday.
Non Sequitur featured a snake charmer days after an editorial cartoon featuring the same caused a fuss, while at virtually the same time as Eli Lilly made the news with a new weight loss drug that will reduce a person’s tonnage by 80% or something WuMo has a comic about it.
Barney & Clyde also gets a nod for timing.
In other copyright news: I hope KC Green is getting paid for the use of his famous Question Hound character that is coming across my Facebook feed. For a time many considered the ‘This is Fine’ image in public domain. It isn’t.
Putting It Down in No-Black and White with Color
That problem with the black line falling out on the GoComics page a while back still occurs on occasion with their newspaper digital feeds. Today it was Biographic which fittingly featured Jack White.
At Mutts.com we are gifted with “The Charm of the Color Funnies: A 2003 Essay From Patrick McDonnell”
In anticipation of the October publication of Patrick’s MUTTS Sunday Funnies Volumes 1 and 2 [link added], we unearthed this essay from Patrick sharing his thoughts on creating MUTTS Sunday pages for the newspapers. It was originally published in the 2003 book MUTTS: The Comic Art of Patrick McDonnell.
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