Here’s a Calvin and Hobbes Quiz that won’t put a strain on your brain. The Fun Trivia site has other comics related quizzes, though as comics knowledgeable testeeswe will have to bite our tongue at some questions: 1. In 1950, Mort Walker first published a strip with bumbling, inept soldiers of various ranks stationed at the […]
There are only so many new ideas out there, and Pardon My Planet (KFS) isn’t the first strip to make an organized/disorganized religion joke. But a good gagster can add freshening elements, and Vic Lee hits some football matters just as the Hall of Fame Game has fans ready for a new season.Specifically, it takes […]
Wallace the Brave gets my, to borrow a phrase, Comic Strip of the Day endorsement.© William Wilson A week late.Wayno‘s Saturday roundup is already up for this week’s Bizarro panels but I still want to point out his entry from last Saturday. © Bizarro StudiosWayno says: I enjoy doing clown gags, and I love it when I […]
NEA colorist Gretchen Grauer Vanderhoof has passed away.Gretchen deSanzi Grauer Vanderhoof August 9, 1930 – July 27, 2022 From the obituary: “Her memories of a bohemian childhood are some of her fondest. There was the Fine Arts Studio where a young Gretchen rode her tricycle up and down aisles of artists practicing their craft. And […]
Tank McNamara (AMS) is willing to keep the Saudi sportswashing effort in front of the public, though I get a strong feeling that money talks and nobody cares, which I suppose wouldn’t bother me so much if so many commentators who went ballistic over Biden’s visit to Jedda hadn’t fallen silent over the LIV golf […]
As the 100th anniversary of Charles Schulz‘s birth nears (November 26, 1922) salutes continue.2022 also marks the 20th anniversary of The Charles M. Schulz Museum. Celebrate the Schulz Museum’s 20th anniversary with some of today’s top cartoonists! Come meet your favorite cartoonists while exploring all things cartooning with drawing games, live presentations, book signings, and […]
Librarian and comic strip author Randy Farb has passed away. Randy Hugh Farb August 27, 1960 – July 24, 2022 From the obituary: A retired librarian with Flint Public Library, he achieved a Master of Library Science from Indiana University-Southeast. Randy led services at area synagogues in Flint, Michigan, and taught Sunday school in the […]
Peter Parisi: Though former President Donald Trump has been out of the White House now for more than 18 months, he apparently still lives rent-free in the head of Mr. Trudeau, who clearly suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Mr. Trudeau — whose Sunday-only “Doonesbury” cartoon strips still lead the color comics section of the Trump-hating […]
Rob Stolzer shares some thoughts about, and art from, Edward Sorel. The Babe Ruth portrait below appeared in the Washington Post Book World, likely in the 1960s. You can easily see the loose structure in the work, capturing the soft architecture of Ruth’s figure, as Sorel allowed the pen to find the form. There […]
Al WilliamsonThe auction last month of some of Al Williamson’s pre-Manning Star Wars comic strip proposal (we featured them on our Facebook page) prompted Diamond’s Scoop to re-present a Williamson profile from 22 years ago. Rip Kirby, of course, was not the end of Williamson’s newspaper work. In addition to a run on Secret Agent […]
E. E. Cummings was one of the Kat’s biggest fans. In 1922, he wrote from Paris to request clippings from friends in America. (“Thank you moreover for a Kat of indescribable beauty!” he wrote to an obliging friend.) In his 1946 introduction to the first edition of the collected strips, Cummings wrote that the brick […]
On a Sunday forty years ago cartoonist Tom Armstrong introduced the world to a young couple who had just become parents in a comic strip named after the little one – Marvin.The Miller family debuted on August 1, 1982:At the time Tom Armstrong was drawing John Darling, a spin off of Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean, […]
It’s come to that, as Non Sequitur (AMS) reminds us.It’s no longer even a case of good ol’ Proverbs 26:4, Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him, though it’s certainly true that you need to distinguish between someone who wants a discussion and someone who is just […]
Last Sunday’s (July 24, 2022) chapter of Flash Gordon in The Tournament of Death featured Alex Raymond art from the third Flash Gordon Sunday page (January 21, 1934) in the top drop tier.Above: Flash Gordon July 24, 2022. Below: Flash Gordon January 21, 1934© King Features SyndicateBut it wasn’t Alex Raymond art. As Jim Keefe […]
It’s always good to start with a joke, and today’s In the Bleachers (AMS) made me redouble my search for a half-remembered golf joke, which I eventually came up with:A golfer is about to tee off when he sees a long funeral procession on the road next to the course. He stops in mid-swing, takes […]