Lost between tomorrow and yesterday Between now and then…Now we’re back where we started Here we go round again* And so begins a 100 year retrospective.Jim Scancarelli starts looking back at a hundred years of Gasoline Alley comic strips. The middle panel of today’s (September 13, 2018) strip is Jim’s edited look at a detail of the […]
The first week of the National Football League‘s 2018 season had some bad news.The Pittsburgh Steelers’ pathetic performance against rival Cleveland Browns, the Dallas Cowboys‘ continuing inability to score more than 20 points, every new NFL coach losing the first game of the season…and then there was really bad news.New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady […]
A Roll Call editorial cartoon by R. J. Matson equating the 9-11 Al Qaeda attacks of 2001 with the current Russian attacks on the United States’ voting sovereignty has some taking umbrage.From a Conservative Review news item headlined “Sick:”A tasteless political cartoon disgraced Roll Call’s cartoon page Tuesday morning, on the 17th anniversary of the […]
Happy anniversary Leroy and LorettaYesterday was the 50th anniversary for The Lockhorns, debuting September 9, 1968.But today’s panel seems to be celebrating the occasion. Mars LandingAfter years of training and traveling…Safe Havens has a (not quite man) landing on the moon. Comic Strip Within a Comic Strip Perhaps most famously would be Al Capp’s Fearless Fosdick.Today Tom […]
Update:Larry Lieber‘s last daily pencilled Spider-Man comic strip was dated September 8, 2018.Beginning September 10, 2018 the dailies are pencilled and inked by Alex Saviuk.Alex Saviuk is now the daily artist and Sunday penciller of The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip. original August 2, 2018 post:It seems Larry Lieber is retiring from daily penciling of The Amazing […]
Illustrator Wallace Tripp has passed away.From Wallace Tripp’s Facebook page earlier today:Dear friends, Wally has passed on to the Studio in the Sky. He had a wonderful life full of love, laughter, art, music and airplanes.WALLACE WHITNEY (WALLY) TRIPP June 26, 1940 – September 9, 2018 A bit of biography from the Wally Tripp homepage:Wallace […]
The producers and creators of the very popular Lone Ranger franchise tried to duplicate that success with The Green Hornet. And that included trying to get the character starring in a comic strip.Green Hornet historian Martin Gram has explained that after an aborted 1939 attempt Bell Syndicate gave it a shot in 1940. Bell’s proposal […]
The Albany Times-Union notified its readers that they will begin carrying the new Macanudo strip starting Sunday September 9.But I will also tell you that an editor quickly learns what readers consider important when, say, there’s a missing clue to a crossword puzzle, or when a typo creates a recipe calling for 1 T. of […]
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site‘sMary Tucker Jasper Speaker Series…annually welcomes 300 prestigious guests to enjoy a dinner, nationally recognized speaker, and the presentation of the Advancing American Democracy Award.The Advancing American Democracy Award is bestowed annually by the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site upon an individual who, in an exemplary way, advances the values of our […]
King Features Syndicate has cancelled a few comics features.Henry and Hazel has already been noted here and here.Also announced is the end of Happy Musings by Sally Huss.Happy Musings is an illustrated panel featuring a pithy maxim.Created by artist and author Sally Huss it debuted as a six-day-a-week feature from King Features on October 23, […]
Artist and comics historian and comic art identifier Hames Ware has passed away.CARLTON HAMES WARE AUGUST 20, 1943 – SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 From Karen Green’s September 6 Facebook post: In June, I went to Arkansas to meet with Hames Ware, a genius of Golden Age comics research and co-editor of THE WHO’S WHO OF AMERICAN […]
100 years ago this year.Covington native Robert Franc Schulkers published the first adventure of the “Fair & Square Boys Club”– as told by Gregory Hawkins, the club “seckatary” – on Feb. 3, 1918, in the Enquirer. At the height of its popularity, the newspaper serial and comic strip reached 10 million households and spawned 30 […]
Sally From Peanuts Made Me a Better TeacherSally, the younger sister of Peanuts’ Charlie Brown, did not perform well in school. She wrote reports the morning they were due. She failed multiple exams. As an overachieving child, I attributed her poor performance to laziness. But now that I’m an educator, I understand where she was […]
Earlier today one of the points of Mike’s column was the casual portrayal of same sex partnerships in the Bliss panel. Commenters at the GoComics page also noticed.I tried to pass on commenting, but can’t resist.As mentioned in the Bliss comments Bud Fisher‘s Mutt and Jeff have been doing the same bed thing for 100 […]
above: the first four Alley Oop comic strips, December 5 – 8, 1932. The Alley Oop comic strip began on December 5, 1932 from the small Bonnet-Brown Syndicate. above: the last Bonnet-Brown strip, April 24, 1933The strip ended abruptly on April 24, 1933 with the bankruptcy of Bonnet-Brown. The strip disappeared for four months, during which […]