Comic Strips and Stuff
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Drew Litton’s Slippery Slopes, Dan Thompson’s Comic Stew, G.B. Trudeau and Nicole Hollander and Doonesbury, In Person: Keith Knight, Phil Hands’ Mendota Marsh, The Sunday Post comics are Inkredible, and then it’s decision time: Mickey or Snoopy?
Drew Litton Presents…
Drew Litton’s Beyond the Drawing Board Substack presents a baker’s dozen of Slippery Slopes comic strips from very late May and early June 2026 as first seen in Vail Daily.
Dan Thompson’s Comic Stew
Dan Thompson, one of the current comics pages’ adventure comic strip cartoonists (admittedly not a long list), is gathering a collection of his other comics – both action-oriented and the funny stuff. Comic Stew launches soon on Kickstarter.
a unique collection of comics filled with adventures, noir crime stories, and humor that fans of classic, fun comics will love.
If it is a success maybe we will get part of the comic presenting the original Rip Haywire webcomics, when Rip was blonde if I remember correctly.
Future Funnies/Hollander Homage
G. B. Trudeau pays tribute to Nicole Hollander in Sunday’s July 5, Doonesbury!
Some of us got an early look in their newspaper’s Weekend Edition issued on Saturday, or Friday in my case.
Phil Hands Presents…
The Wisconsin State Journal presents us with dozens of Phil Hands‘ weekly Mendota Marsh comic strip.
Check out this collection that includes all of the Mendota Marsh comic strips from the last year, by State Journal cartoonist Phil Hands.
Keith Knight Meet and Greet
Event: A Conversation with Keith Knight, Gentleman Cartoonist will be held on July 18, 2026 at So-So Books in Raleigh, N.C. A presentation of The People’s Table. Very Limited Seating.
The Ink-redible History of Comics in The Sunday Post
In a Wayback Weekend installment Stephen Gallacher gives us a history of The Sunday Post’s comics. This Post is based in Glasgow, Scotland.
As a paper launched to bring people news about the First World War, the first comics in The Sunday Post were more sombre.
The satire was aimed at the German march across Europe, and then at the return of Scottish soldiers from the Western front, before moving on to the floundering economy of the 1920s.
The first children’s comic debuted in The Sunday Post on December 21, 1919, and was called Musical Matt, about a boy and his magical flute which made people dance whether they wanted to or not.
On March 8, 1936, something special arrived when readers opened an eight-page Fun Section dreamed up by managing editor Robert Duncan Low and brought to life by artist Dudley D Watkins.
Inside were two strips that would go on to become national treasures: Oor Wullie, the spiky-haired scamp in his dungarees, and The Broons, the multigenerational family squeezed into a tenement at 10 Glebe Street.
Opinion: Mickey or Snoopy?
Joe Manio at The Lethbridge Herald opines on two classic comic characters.
Every generation has its great debates. Cats or dogs? Coffee or tea? Pancakes or waffles?
And then there’s the one that has probably never been settled over coffee—or anywhere else, for that matter.
Snoopy or Mickey?
It’s the sort of question that has no wrong answer. Whichever side you choose, you’ll find yourself in excellent company.
Both have entertained generations of children and adults, inspired mountains of merchandise, and become instantly recognizable around the world.
Still…if you asked me to choose just one, I’d have to go with…
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