Matt Wuerker sings of arms and the man with a Veterans Day cartoon. There aren’t as many “Little boys saluting tombstones” cartoons as usual, which is good, but, then, there aren’t as many cartoons marking the holiday at all, which is puzzling and, IMHO, not good. Most of the veterans who get the day off […]
Nancy has taken a strange turn lately. Not in a historically strange Nancy comic strip way, but in a strange for cartoonist Olivia Jaimes way. Since Olivia started riffing on cartoonists and comics a couple weeks ago (the change struck even earlier in July) it seems she has taken to emulating the prime Ernie Bushmiller […]
Starting things off with a surprising strip from VJ Day, August 15, 1945. Given the normal distribution channels of the time and the fact that there’s no day specified in the margins, I’m going to assume that, with the war winding down, Roy Crane recognized the strong possibility of a Japanese surrender before his story […]
Wannabe No More Since we covered the debut of Wannabe by Luca Debus on Gocomics a year and a half ago … and that it left GoComics for Webtoon earlier this year, we might as well pass on the news that Luca has ended Wannabe as of today. (h/t Mario 500 for the heads-up.) From […]
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 […]