Henry Barajas begins his take on the Gil Thorp comic strip today.Over the weekend The Arizona Daily Star interviewed Henry about Gil Thorp (“It begins running Monday, July11, in the Star’s Sports section”).Starting Monday, Barajas is writing a new chapter as author of the longtime comic strip, Gil Thorp. He is the fourth writer of […]
Perils of working too far in advance: Prickly City (AMS) doesn’t seem aware that watching gas prices has become nearly a joyous practice.Around here, they’ve gone down 30 cents since my last fill-up, which means that, instead of thinking I’d better top off before they go any higher, I’m wringing out every mile in hopes […]
There were a few Sunday Funnies today I just don’t “get.”B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for July 10, 2022 © John Hart Studios Six Chix by Maritsa Patrinos for July 10, 1922 Six Chix © KFS; comic © MPatrinos Candorville by Darrin Bell for July 10, 2022 © Darrin Bell *Apologies to and in memory of Bill Bickel.
In January of 1935 the first DC comic book was released – New Fun #1. It featured the first female title character of DC Comics – Sandra of the Secret Service. The one-page more or less monthly comic strip was created by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and Charles Flanders. Others continued the series until 1938, after which […]
I’m not much in the mood to deal with today. Instead, here’s a look at the Sunday funnies from July 9, 1972.Though I’ll add a bit of politics, since the Democrats were holding their convention. We didn’t know at the time how many of those bumps and bruises were the handiwork of Little Donny Segretti, […]
Here’s a bit of bad news from Jimmy Margulies (KFS), which doesn’t fit my politics, because I’m far from ready to fly the white flag over this country, but it does fit my current mood, which is decidedly Eeyorean.It seems Joe Biden took a few minutes to intervene with Russia on behalf of Brittney Griner, […]
Argentinian cartoonist Liniers’s internationally syndicated daily comic is collected for the first time in English in Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere (Fantagraphics, Aug.). Being Fantagraphics that book is now scheduled for September. With the cartoonist’s first book for the English speaking world coming soon Publishers Weekly talks with Macanudo comic strip creator Liniers. I loved […]
Cartoonist and comics historian Bob Harvey has passed away. Robert Charles (Bob) Harvey (a.k.a. R. C. Harvey) June 22, 1937 – July 7, 2022 Bob’s friends Tom Tanquary and Carolyn Weller have informed the comics world that R.C. Harvey has passed away due to complications following a fall.From Bob’s daughter Julia:Last week Dad fell and […]
I’m not in the mood for politics today, but Kevin Siers’ comment on the resignation of Boris Johnson is simply too good to delay.It’s one of those things where, once you see it, the connecting concepts are obvious, but combining Britain’s lion with Bert Lahr’s lion must have struck Siers like a thunderbolt.As a writer, […]
Filmmaker Tom Tanquary is informing us of the sad news that cartoonist and comics historian R. C. Harvey has passed away. There will be more as details emerge.
On July 7, 1997 Baby Blues writer Jerry Scott and editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman introduced 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan to newspaper readers with the Zits comic strip.The comic strip began with a decent client list and has grown considerably since. Zits appears in more than 1,600 newspapers worldwide in 45 countries and is translated into 15 […]
In order to start a day of mythbusting on an apolitical note, here’s a cartoon Rich Powell shared on Facebook the other day, though I note by the date that he drew it some time ago.It’s about the nursery rhyme about little piggies, used, as demonstrated in this 1857 painting by Lilly Martin-Spencer, to make […]
After nearly a hundred years in existence, the Popeye comic strip is reportedly getting a woke makeover, with the strip’s latest cartoonist promising more ethnic diversity and “more characters who aren’t heterosexual.” The right wing news site Breitbart has an article about ideas newly introduced in the Popeye comic strip. The item informs […]
From Intelligent Collector: In November 2020, Trudeau attempted the seemingly impossible: whittling down that mountain of strips to a mere handful that “proved defining and enduringly meaningful to him,” as The Washington Post noted upon its publication of Trudeau’s top 10. Among their estimable lot: strips about Watergate, women’s rights, onerous laws in Florida and […]
Comics Kingdom has lost a week’s worth of Vintage Judge Parker.I found them.