Betty Boop debuted 90 years ago with the August 9, 1930 release of Dirty Dizzy Dishes.Animation Magazine has a slight overview of Betty Boop at 90.The Forward has a look at creator Max Fleischer.Via YouTube is that introductory Dirty Dishes:After the Hayes Code toned down Betty’s scandalous behavior her popularity never recovered, though she has […]
This week I think we’ll start our Friday Funnies with a Jason Chatfield cartoon that seems likely to piss off some people but gave me a laugh of recognition.I’ll admit he doesn’t have a caption reading “This is set in NYC,” but, then again, I’d suggest he doesn’t need one. Maybe other cities have more […]
Potty mouths are rare, if not nonexistent, in syndicated newspaper comics. Potty humor, on the other hand, has become a modern-day standard – usually involving dogs or other animals.Sometimes cartoonists feature humans and their bathroom habits.above: Oh, Brotherabove: MarvinGreg Evans and his Luann comic strip has been known to dive into that area:Showing a baby […]
“All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.” — Alexander Bullock (My Man Godfrey)Ed Hall‘s cartoon has gone so viral that it would be a little pointless to feature it here, except that it’s a good example of combining a pop culture reference — always a […]
Erik Larsen will parody comic strips in issue #252 of his Savage Dragon comic book.On Twitter Erik announced the comic strips he would be highlighting: Finally nailed down the 11 comic strip parodies that’ll appear in Savage Dragon #252. They are: Family Circus Peanuts Cathy Doonesbury Foxtrot Dick Tracy Thimble Theater Calvin & Hobbes Rex […]
A news site ran an article about the current foofaraw over a Six Chix panel headlined The url for the Black Enterprise article also included that bit of misinformation:Over 100 Newspapers Drop Pro-BLM, Pro-Mask Comic by Black CartoonistThe article itself notes only thatA comic panel was removed from several newspapers [emphasis added] after readers called […]
National Cartoonists Society ACE Award recipient (and television weather man) Al Roker “answered reader questions on the ‘Today’ show Tuesday morning, including one from a fan who asked what he and his colleagues wanted to be when they were kids.” “I wanted to be an animator for Walt Disney,” Roker said. “I’m an amateur cartoonist, […]
The Lubbock (Texas) Avalance-Journal, a Gannett newspaper, is asking its readers to fill out a survey to pick favorite comic strips for their Sunday Funnies.We’re checking in with our readers to see which comics they prefer as we continually evaluate our offerings. Please let us know your favorite newspaper comics by taking our free survey […]
Kal Kallaugher asks a depressing question, but I’m not sure he hasn’t set up a false premise.That is, while I will accept that trying to sell smoothies made from those repulsive ingredients would be hard, I also believe that the health claims of for-real smoothies are greatly overstated.A tall glass of blended fruit contains a […]
Deon Parsons of Life With Kurami fame has a new comic strip, Rosebuds, that will appear in print weekly in The Herald Bulletin and twice-weekly at GoComics.The Anderson (Ind.) Herald Bulletin announces the new comic strip: Many readers of The Herald Bulletin will remember him for the daily strip “Life with Kurami,” which was published […]
Reporting on newspapers cutting the Six Chix comic panel over the Tuesday July 28, 2020 installment by Bianca Xunise has become a national news story as NBC News is now covering the issue: Tea Fougner, editorial director at King Features, the comic strip’s syndicate, confirmed to NBC News that angry responses to the strip resulted […]
Sean Martin, faithful CSotD supporter and brilliant creator of the “Doc and Raider” web strip, died Monday morning, a little over two weeks after ringing down the curtain on his strip.Randy Riddle reports on Facebook:I’m sorry to say that our dear friend Sean Martin passed away this morning about six am. Sean had been suffering from […]
In light of DDDegg’s news that Wyoming is losing all but one of its Monday papers, we’ll start off with Gary Varvel‘s riff on a classic Norman Rockwell illustration. Which I add here for the benefit of those too young to know the original, though cultural literacy should include a heapin’ helpin’ of Norman Rockwell.To which […]
By the end of August 2020 Wyoming will become the only (first?) state in the U.S. to publish no daily newspaper as the Casper Star-Tribune cuts its schedule to five days a week.The Nieman Lab reports: Wyoming has six “daily” newspapers, but now none of them will actually print a paper seven days a week. […]
The Reed Brennan/ Creators Syndicate announcement of Nest Heads ending was off by a day. Instead of ending on Friday, July 31 the comic strip ended on Saturday, August 1; which makes more sense. Creators, for the moment, is sitting on that last strip (a rerun from 2014):While GoComics has begun the cycle over, going […]