John Deering gives us our opening today with his Strange Brew.Been enjoying Mick and Keith checking in to Hotel UFO this week. And alway happy to see a Kinks reference.FurBabies‘ week long scavenger hunt gets a juxtaposition with UFO today. Bob Weber, Jr. threw a nod to friend and co-creator Jay Stephens this week in […]
No need for an update today: Lynn Hsu lays out my life in all the detail anyone needs, several times repeatedly as ordered.To be honest, it varies greatly from department to department, which I know because I’ve reached the fabled three score and ten years, at which point you spend more time down at the […]
The Nib magazine free! Simon and Schuster books $1.62 billion! New Bloom County comic strips! Peanuts merch! The Addams Family versus The Simpsons Family!The Nib is offering, through August 2023, free downloads of all 15 issues of The Nib magazine. The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down at the end […]
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) surprised me the other day, because there’s nothing wrong, or particularly odd, about mixing peanut butter and jalapenos. Elder son used to scoop out the seeds, stuff the raw pepper with peanut butter and choff it on down, and I’ll admit it’s a tasty snack, though I’ve got a rule about only […]
Because of my contrary nature I get giddy when I see cartoonists screw with the people laying out The Sunday Funnies. Any number of Sunday comic strips are reliably laid out in a nine panel grid making it possible for certain strips to be run vertically down the side of a page. Like Blondie, The […]
For those who are time-shifting the Women’s Cup, I’ll simply offer Zapiro’s celebratory cartoon from this past week without further commentary, since Bafana Bafana’s entry into the elimination round has already been played. I’m waiting until I file this to find out how the Americans did against Sweden, which is likely wrapping up now, but […]
My hip replacement has had the pleasant timing to have occurred during the Women’s World Cup. While I’m still pushing my walker around the apartment, I have had the chance to watch a lot of soccer, or, as Stephen Collins and three-quarters of the rest of the world would call it, football.Unlike Brian, I like […]
Paul Noth having summed up the Nov 24 election, we move on to further action, later in the game.That phrase is a bit of nostalgia for fans of the Notre Dame Football Replay that aired on Sundays and depleted attendance at the 10:30 Mass. They had to fit it into the time slot, so drives […]
Nope, don’t like it. Don’t like it a bit. Before last month gets too far away let’s bring up the major change to a comic strip in July. On July 10 Vic Lee changed the lettering font for his Pardon My Planet panel. Above left is the July 8, 2023 issue; above right is the […]
Grand Avenue (AMS) marks a cultural change that has often sent me digging through the memory banks. I suppose the sign might have been when the streetlights came on, and it’s possible, since they were more likely set to a specific time rather than light actuated, which would have sent us straight home from the […]
Pros and Cons (KFS) relies on three main characters: Samuel, the incompetent attorney; Stan, the somewhat brutish but kind-hearted cop and Lyndon, the psychiatrist continuously flummoxed by the twisted egos of his patients. Today, Lyndon has inadvertently led one of his regulars down the wrong garden path, hoping to shame him into taking control and, […]
We’ll start with a small bit of news: Marvel Comics and King Features Syndicate are now rerunning the reruns. Above opening panels from left to right: November 16, 2014, March 24, 2019, and July 30, 2023. The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip is now on a four year, four month rotation. When the newspaper strip first […]
Let’s start with some nonsense. The Walt Disney Company is about to do the unthinkable: retire Mickey Mouse. Inside the Magic reports that Disney is bringing The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse animated shorts to an end with tribute to The Mouse’s first short Steamboat Willie: Since 2020, Mickey Mouse has starred in the animated […]
I’m off getting a magical new hip that will allow me to leap tall buildings in a single bound. While I’m recuperating in a place of dubious connection, here’s an interview I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. The cartoons were added in 2010 when I replayed the interview for Comic […]
I’m off getting a magical new hip that will allow me to leap tall buildings in a single bound. While I’m recuperating in a place of dubious connection, here’s an interview I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. The cartoons were added in 2010 when I replayed the interview for Comic […]