I’m sure most of you, like me, regularly check the various print syndication homepages to see what, if anything, is new. So I naturally got excited when I checked in on the Andrews McMeel Syndication site and noticed a new listing: Lucas Turnbloom’s “How to Cat.” So I sent a request to the syndicate asking when […]
When I gave the advice “Dare to be stupid!” what I meant was that silly jokes are fun. I wasn’t advising deliberate stupidity in the political realm, which is disloyal.There is spin, and Adam Zyglis mocks the spin of those who don’t mind running up a deficit for a wall, but who can’t see how […]
A stretch of coastline in France has reported an unusual item repeatedly washing up on its shores over the last 30 years – in the form of a famously lasagne-loving orange cat. According to a report from the French-language broadcasterFrancetvinfo.fr, retro telephones in the shape of Garfield – the comic strip cat created in 1978 […]
In June 1940, the same month Will Eisner’s The Spirit debuted his Comic Book Section, Dale Messick‘s Brenda Starr first appeared in the Chicago Tribune Comic Book Magazine, a newspaper insert that had shown up three months earlier. Brenda Starr – Reporter began as a two-part Sunday only strip in the comic book on June 30, […]
(Rip Kirby)(Big Ben Bolt)Call this the “Juxtaposition of Nagging.” Over in the Vintage section at Comics Kingdom, Rip Kirby is just starting a new adventure, while Ben Bolt is at the climax of another.Offering these classic strips to those who pony up $20 a year to subscribe is better than a tote bag and a […]
While newspapers continue to drop Non Sequitur (though at a far slower rate), those who have dropped it continue to get letters about the action. With the pro-Wiley Miller faction far outweighing those who agree with the papers’ decision to drop Non Sequitur.Now there seems to be an organized push to return the comic strip […]
The Return of Maakies??!!Tony Millionaire‘s alternative comic strip Maakies ran from 1994 to 2016. It kinda returned in late 2018 as a coloring book.Now Tony is teasing the return: “MAAKIES DRINKY CROW! Coming back in March, multi-platform.”But in what format? Where? I need to know more! Sports Cartoonists are Nearly ExtinctBut here’s a four minute segment […]
We start with a mere fragment of an Existential Comics episode, the rest of which is hilarious, in which a procession of philosophers question Aladdin’s “princeness” and, hence, the genie’s honesty and/or competence.This cartoon pits my hatred of plot holes against my hatred of metaphysics, which makes for an interesting cage match.The traditional first meeting […]
It’s Gahan Wilson’s Birthday!Happy Birthday to Gahan Wilson.To celebrate here’s a recent audio interview with the master cartoonist. Massachusetts Loves Their PicklesTo millions of people the Pickles comic strip is one of the best. Those include loyal readers of The Republican, whose passionate response to cancellation of the strip caused the Springfield newspaper’s executive staff to […]
The number of newspapers dropping Non Sequitur over a lapse in judgment is approaching double digit dozens. Now fans and readers of Wiley‘s comic are expressing disappointment in the newspapers’ actions and requesting the return of one of their favorite cartoonists. Halltoons by Ed Hall I hope you will reconsider! Non Sequitur is probably one of […]
Arlo resurrects an artifact of the 60s that, yes, I once owned, and Janis is fully justified in her frustration, because what the thing does is to cut down the size of the target by about two-thirds.Wadding up a piece of paper required getting it small enough to pass through the hoop, which meant a […]
The Sunday following the unfortunate gaffe in Non Sequitur…Doonesbury by G. B. Trudeau is unable to fully quote President Trump.
An embarrassment of riches today, but Jeff Stahler gets to lead off with this calm summation of things. I also liked Clay Bennett‘s piece, and the pair could have run as a Juxtaposition, except today’s blog is all a Juxtaposition.I like this piece because it suggests the criminality of turning in a false alarm, which I […]
above: Liò by Mark Tatulli Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2019 release.Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Just Fore Laughs Lucy The Comics Journal #303 (“bookazine”) The Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 8, 1993 – 1995 Evil Inc: Under New […]
Fridays are supposed to be politics-free, non-contentious days here, and there’s nothing less contentious than a Bizarro that simply made me laff and, so far as I can tell, has no greater meaning than being silly.I have indeed seen the mess that ensues when you fire off one of these things, and it’s not to […]