The Other Sunday Funnies
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Butt Naked Comics
I am curious – comics.
I guess it would be okay to show Jeremy’s teenage girlfriend Sarah’s bare backside in the shower? How about the 9 Chickweed Lane’s Edda in the teenage flashback strips? Luann? Bernice? Broom-Hilda?
Is the appropriate non-prurient illustration restricted to boys? Do men get a pass or do they age out?
As Alan Gardner noted earlier this year the habit of showing boys’ butts has a history in comic strips.
Even more disturbing is my inability to accept Marvin having a compete adult vocabulary. In thought balloons communicating with Bitsy? Okay. Speech balloons talking to his parents? I’m not there.
Back to Prince Valiant
Thomas Yeates acknowledges the John Cullen Murphy staging in today’s Prince Valiant.
As seen that not-so-chopping chopping block is Murphy’s not Yeates’ idea.
In Sync
The Family Circus script: “I’m not dirty. I just look lived-in.”
Dennis the Menace script: “But you told me to go outside and have a good time.”
Profiles in courage sync:
Fifteen years apart in real publishing time but only a day (Nov. 13-14, 2026) in Vintage Comics Kingdom time.
There was a time when comics summarized the longer stories for readers new to the continuity with the kind of profiles as shown in the Rip Kirby comic strip or introduced the coming supporting cast as the Brick Bradford strip did. It still happens on occasion – I’m thinking Terry Beatty in Rex Morgan, M.D. and Dan Schkade in Flash Gordon.
Howie Gets a Holla!
Three months after becoming the solitary Ripley’s Believe It or Not! illustrator Howie Noel get recognized:
“Ripley’s has been presenting the incredible and the unusual in illustrated form since 1918. Currently illustrated by Howie Noel, it is the longest running syndicated daily cartoon in history.”
Still credited to “Ripley” at GoComics.
We Recognize Brian
There is nothing new under the sun so it has possibly been done before but I really like the breaking up of the second “panel” in yesterday’s Red and Rover. The sequence is separated but the correct reading order is shown with the gutter bridges between the small comic art. I don’t have a memory of that particular layout.
Laugh of the Week
I know that joke has been done before but it still made me chuckle out loud.
This In Sync Makes Me Wonder
With the frequent interaction between Lola and Eno in each others’ comic strips and knowing Todd Clark is a gag writer for numerous cartoonists, I have to wonder.
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