Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1922-1924 Invisible Presence Flash Gordon Dailies: Austin Briggs Come Over Come Over (hardcover edition) review SUPERHUMAN: THE BRONZE AGE OF […]
My old friend, Mrs Carter, could make a pudding, as well as translate Epictetus. — Samuel JohnsonAs noted yesterday, liking sports is as optional as liking ballet, but then there are polymaths like Elizabeth Carter whose intellectual curiosity and wide span of interests was testimony to the sexism inherent in the term “Renaissance Man.”F’rinstance, this […]
We were going to set up an anniversary post for Wednesday but Wiley beat us to the punch with today’s Non Sequitur. Wiley, who has better resources than we, works a very clear shot of that original panel from February 16, 1992 into the February 13, 2022 Non Sequitur strip. Wiley admits […]
Sentimentality for the good old days is not a new emotion.On February 13, 1922 Al Posen with his Them Days Is Gone Forever yearned for better times. above from The Shreveport Journal of February 13, 1922Here’s Allan Holtz talking about the Posen and his comic strip:It seems to me that having to do a daily […]
With today being Super Bowl Sunday and tomorrow Valentine’s Day, cartoonists are under some pressure to cite one or the other, but, before we get into forced timing, here’s a bit of the serendipitous kind: This Arctic Circle (KFS) actually ran yesterday but was surely written and drawn before thugs in big rigs were a […]
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat will be making changes to its daily comics page. Dear Readers – The Press Democrat is making some slight design improvements throughout our print edition, starting in April. One area we’re reviewing relates to our comics section that publishes Monday-Saturday. The paper asks readers to mark their favorite comics.Comic Panels: […]
… In other words, just as the popular concept of American democracy has been modified (some might say vulgarized) to include capitalism as a leading example of its primary function, so too has the practice of satire and political cartooning been amended to require amusement as its foremost intention, a sure sign that it can […]
In Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” a hard-drinking couple center their lives and their relationship around a cruel series of shared memories of extremely dubious truth. Any more would be a spoiler, and, if you’ve never seen Mike Nichols’ 1966 film of the play, you should.But don’t expect to laugh, because, in the words […]
Mad #24 is nipping at our heels with a release date of February 15. It features a new cover by Ed Steckley. Though some places are showing an old (July 1976) Bob Jones cover to illustrate the solicitation.Must have been sent out for the early listers.Elsewhere Ed gives us a look at the contents page […]
Today’s Arlo & Janis (AMS) is a bit of a Super Bowl standard: The sports savvy guy and the woman who picks her team by, in this case, colors, or, other times, by ferocity of mascot. The denouement is that her teams wins.It’s a gag with legs: As Homer wrote, “It’s funny because it’s true.”For […]
KUSA-TV in Denver has an extended (20 minutes) segment featuring Reuben Award-winning cartoonist Ray Billingsley of Curtis fame and Where I’m Coming From cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft, the first Black woman cartoonist to be syndicated in mainstream (white) newspapers. Also included is Richard Prince who writes about diversity in the news media.The trio discuss the still […]
Looper lists the Most Popular Peanuts Characters from worst to best. The only problem with the “Peanuts” gang is that some members are more lovable than others. Some of the Shulz [sic] toons are charming and imaginative enough to carry their own feature films, but some don’t have the charisma to carry a single comic […]
Cornered (AMS) opens today’s discussion, and the arms crossed posture is perfect.I’ll begin the topic by confessing that Constant Reader Bob Crittenden dropped me an email to very politely point out that, if I began the blog in 2010, yesterday was its 12th, not 11th Anniversary. The problem, I shamefacedly confessed, is that I haven’t […]
Just how old is Walt Wallet of Gasoline Alley?I have, with nothing to back it up, long ago decided Walt was born in the year 1900.With a Walt biography the subject of the current comic strip we may finally find out.1900 still works with Walt in the Navy during World War I.But then Jim Scancarelli […]
Buster was one of Britain’s longest running weekly comics, but when it launched back in May 1960, then owners the Mirror Group took advantage of the popularity of newspaper strip character “Andy Capp“, published in the Daily Mirror. They gave the comic a perhaps unusual PR boost – by making flagship character Buster the son […]