9 Chickweed Luann – Two for Tuesday So we are accustomed to Arlo and Janis‘ subtle side glances to sex and 9 Chickweed Lane‘s more direct indications. But Greg and Karen Evans have taken syndicated mainstream comic strips to a new level this week, with two twenty-somethings naked all week long. Acknowledging Creators The week […]
There have been more than a few references to comic strips on the funny pages lately. As has always been the case, most recently shown in Back to B.C. when the art form meant more to newspapers than they presently do. The Back to B.C. reruns about comic strips started August 25 while the Barney […]
Midweek Olivia Jaimes began what a series of Nancy strips riffing on her profession. While Richard Thompson in the throwback Cul de Sac show us how those unorganized underground cartoonists probably created those jam comix. Previewing next week’s Reuben Awards yesterday we had Intelligent Life, Macanudo, and Thatababy celebrating recognizable comic strips of the past […]
It was good news today as GoComics/Andrews McMeel has heard the pleas of comics fans and restored their Sunday comics to the full three tier format or title panels to most of their strips and panels. Comics that have full original content making up the top tier of their comics all seem to be posted […]
I admit that I don’t follow Brooke McEldowney’s 9 Chickweed Lane religiously due to the weird (to me) arcs. But this week’s amusement with Edda and Amos is sweet and endearing (so far). We’ll see if Brooke can keep it on course, meaning the course I want. Though my favorite individual comic of this week […]
Some things noted of recent comic strips. From the last few days of Dan Schkade’s Flash Gordon … comes a sequence that reminded me of another scene: While as 9 Chickweed Lane kicked off a week of definitions I’m reminded that Brooke McEldowney cut off comments on his strip because he could brook no opposing […]
Kim Warp bats lead off today because we’re celebrating intelligent humor and her New Yorker panel stands out among a plethora of lesser Facebook gags.When I speak of “intelligent humor,” I don’t mean jokes about advanced physics or great unread classics. I mean jokes that indicate that the cartoonist has been paying attention and is […]