Thirty years ago:Two out, bottom of the ninth. The eternal goat (not G.O.A.T.) Charlie Brown steps up to the plate.And… The greatest day in the life of Charlie Brown. Jump to today and it’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball 2023 and Arlo and Janis bring us up to date. Or as knowledgeable old fan […]
We’ll start the day with a rebus rather than a joke, though a rebus is, really, a form of joke. Best of all, this is an old rebus and thus an old joke and it has flummoxed a lot of people over the years, I think, because they search for deep meaning in a shallow […]
The public birth of King Kong, the movie monster, was 90 years ago. The movie debuted in New York City on March 2, 1933. The movie went national on April 7, 1933. Here we celebrate the first comic strip appearance. On March 27, 1933 some newspapers started running the RKO Radio Pictures supplied promotional King […]
Take It From the Tinkersons by Bill Bettwy is nearing its tenth anniversary. The comic strip began April 1, 2013 when King Features began distributing it.But from submission to syndication wasn’t instant: It took about 10 years of persistent submissions for a company to finally bite, Bettwy said. “I don’t even know how many they […]
I worked at a paper where this Pardon My Planet (KFS) pretty much described the company health plan. There were fewer than a dozen of us and so the cost of insurance was not only massive to begin with but vulnerable to individual claims: If one person had gotten seriously ill, the entire system would […]
Gaming the Funny Pages – part two Last weekend we noted Joe Wos playing games. This weekend it was Jef Mallett. Don’t know if Jef knows of a comics page with Overboard right below Frazz, but in Mallett’s neighborhood (the northern mid-west) there is The Fond du Lac Reporter where the hummus could have slid […]
Last week The Santa Fe New Mexican asked its readers to rate the comics in the paper. In a mini-poll, readers emailed with their three favorite comic strips published in The New Mexican — and three they’d use as kindling during our next snowstorm. More than 150 emails were received. This week they reveal the […]
My initial response to today’s Duplex (AMS) was to wonder just how old that movie is, and, when I looked it up, I found it was released March 28, 1963, making it 60 years old as of Tuesday. So perhaps Glenn McCoy is saluting its anniversary, but it still means that all but the most […]
Breaking Cat News cartoonist Georgia Dunn has revealed that she will have hand surgery (her drawing hand) on April 11 and is asking fans to recommend strips to be reprinted during her recovery. Georgia broke the news on her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram platforms. I deal with cysts and benign tumors a fair amount (just […]
Original March 18 post:I opened up the local weekend edition of my newspaper and there at the top of page one of the Sunday color comics section was Dilbert! Is this truly the end or will there another Sunday? Will this be available online tomorrow? Maybe at the Dilbert Reborn Reddit page? March 25 Edit […]
Ann Telnaes, Chris Browne, Jules Feiffer, Joe Heller, Ellis Rosen, Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra. Dave Whamond, Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds, Clay Jones, and an Ode to Calvin and Hobbes.The Washington Post PR Blog celebrates Ann Telnaes’s Herb Block Win Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist at The Washington Post, is the 2023 recipient of the […]
Francis (AMS) combines the dread news of the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the beginning of Ramadan to make a point about the sudden urge to Do Something as compared to having an ongoing tradition of Doing Something.Ramadan began this week, but, of course, an observant Muslim like Gabby not […]
Comic strip and comic book artist Joe Giella has passed away. From the Joe Giella – Artist Facebook page: The Giella family wishes for all to celebrate the incredible life of Joe Giella. Joe passed peacefully on March 21st at the age of 94. Joe was such a special person. His presence alone would put […]
Bill Watterson, Charles Schulz, Frank Engli, Alan Foster, and more.News of new Bill Watterson material prompts Colin McEvoy at Biography to recall what the cartoonist has done between the end of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip and the impending The Mysteries. Needless to say, Watterson’s fans are overjoyed about his first major book since […]
How he does a Sally Forth pseudo-wallpaper strip. From cartoonist Jim Keefe: Artist Fun Fact: When working on a Sunday page where I’m holding on the same framing for each panel, I work backwards from the sixth panel in regards to the layout – working from how much room I have with the lettering in […]