Medical Emergency Alert in Rex Morgan, M.D. Finally, after two months of no Doc Rex (since July 5, 2025), we will get the star of his eponymous comic strip back in action! Or so you would have thought. But Dr. Morgan is a no show, instead it is some anonymous attending physician who happens to […]
We’ll start on a relatively high intellectual plane today and then gradually glide on down to nothing at all. I was taken aback — only appropriate in a sea-faring tale — by this Rip Kirby, not because of the name “Minx,” though I associate it mostly with “Servant of Two Masters,” which is I think […]
This could have been a much larger Juxtaposition. After ignoring the ones I didn’t like, I had 15 that I did, which I thought would be excessive. I managed to cut the list down to six, which I’m running in alphabetical order. Juxtaposition of the Covfefe (Pat Bagley) (Matt Davies) (Jack Ohman) […]
Today’s Bottomliners coincidentally echoes some rumblings on social media, which I think started … … with this piece that graphic novelist Nate Powell posted about two weeks ago … … but which, in the last 48 hours or so, was joined by this article, which ran last May at Comics Beat, in which […]
Tom Cheney gets the top spot for drawing a tin-can telephone with a taut string. He’s originally from my part of the world, which is a good thing in itself, but the important thing is that he’s old enough to remember when comic books were for kids and had instructions for a tin-can telephone in […]
Sunday’s Red & Rover, which is set in an undefined portion of the early 60s, pinged some memories, though my very best days on swings were set in the strictly defined summer of 1958. I played on the swings every single non-rainy day that summer, on a set of truly bodacious swings in the company […]