13 months ago Liniers delighted us with a weeklong adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.” I expect to be as thoroughly enamored with his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream” this week in Macanudo.Guest CreatorsDeeper in 2024 we saw the retro-stylings of Howie Noel as he drew the adventures of Dick Tracy […]
From the United Kingdom we have Modesty Blaise and Philip Sidney Woodford, from the USA West Coast we have new museums in Portland and Los Angeles, in Washington D.C. we have rumors of a Jake Tapper graphic novel, but we start with an update on the troubled Angouleme International Comics Festival in France.Angouleme Update France […]
Rea Irvin’s The Smythes; F. Opper, R. & G. Dirks and J. Swinnerton jam; the Leffingwells’ Little Joe; McDonnell’s Mutts and Schulz’s Peanuts; and Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Dietrich and Flash Gordon makes some three. Rea Irvin was The New Yorker’s first art editor and creator of the magazine’s iconic mascot, the butterfly enthusiast Eustace Tilly. […]
Hat tip to Nancy and Ernie Bushmiller for today’s headline.So is Lois now just an ersatz Ed McMahon, a second banana to the rest of the Flagston family? You youngsters can ask the elders in your family about Ed and the all-knowing Carnac.While you’re at it ask your grandparents what the movie experience shown in […]
Our look at the recent fourth wall comics kinda sorta started 15 years ago as Petey Otterloop spent the summer of 2010 at Cartoon Camp. Those strips have been showing up in Andrews McMeel Syndication’s Cul de Sac reruns during this July (starting here on the GoComics site). But this weekend saw a few comic […]
So GoComics seemingly has set up someone to make sure that the Sunday strips now have the black plate included after weeks of that being a problem on a few strips every Sunday. This week only Rose is Rose got through, but they fixed it very quickly so only Arcamax was caught blackless:But there is […]
Basil and Monte Wolverton; Flash Gordon by Alex, Jim, Dan, and a bunch of others; public domain Popeye and Olive; a hint of next winter’s Doonesbury special art; plus actual comic strips and panels from this week.Let’s start with the news for the indexers. This week sees the King Features Weekly Service dropping Dan Schkade‘s […]
A new Sunday story in The Phantom means a new title panel by Sunday artist Jeff Weigel. A big, wonderful Prince Valiant panel by Thomas Yeates as Val and company begin their own new adventure.Current Popeye cartoonist Randy Milholland has some fun with the present status of the comic strip of new Sundays and daily […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Barnaby Volume Five by Crockett Johnson and Jack Morley Volume Five collects the final two-plus […]
The first and last weeks of Ted Shearer’s Quincy, the first Happy Hooligan strip, the death of Alex Raymond, a brief history of American newspaper comic strips by Jules Feiffer, Stefan Kanter, Arthur Asa Berger, Kurt Vonnegut, Roz Chast, and others, remembering Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds’ Tank McNamara of a half century ago, and […]
Nothing on the political scene strikes me as remarkable today, except for the can of worms Ed Hall suggests we open and dig into.That is, there are a lot of political cartoons based on Trump not paying taxes, but there’s nothing much new to be said about it, which is part of his Teflon campaign: […]
I’m not sure when crossovers in comics became “a thing,” though likely with the Comic Strip Switcheroo of April Fool’s Day, 1997. But two years earlier, apparently Zippy popped up in Family Circus, inspiring this Tom the Dancing Bug that is today’s Classic at GoComics.Crossovers generally pose the challenge that readers need to be familiar with […]
Let’s start with an extremely sensible ruleIf Alex Raymond places a woman in your path, do not question her motives. Or his. Just stop the wagon.Sure, she might try to kill you. But why focus on the negative? Too-Smart-For-The-Room Juxtapositions of the Day(Bizarro)(Lio)(Loose Parts)I want to see the Bizarro done as a performance piece in an […]
Maybe it’s because I mentioned the fall of Saigon yesterday, but today’s Doonesbury struck a particularly responsive, if dark, chord.As with Syria, I don’t have a solution for Afghanistan, but, then, nobody ever has. Well, Alexander the Great, but that was a long time ago and that didn’t last indefinitely, though it eventually became part […]
Tom Tomorrow with a chatty but point-on commentary about the health care issue.Speaking of JFK (and isn’t everyone?), he used to quote an aphorism, “success has many fathers, failure is an orphan,” and the piling on over the botched roll-out of a main portion of the Affordable Care Act has certainly been a stunning example […]