Some Stats We’ll start with some encyclopedic entries for comic strips. As The Library sequence (aka The Origin of Ming the Merciless) ends so does Sandy Jarrell‘s stint as guest artist of Flash Gordon. Sandy began this daily run on March 30 and ran through yesterday June 6, 2026. He also drew the April Sunday […]
With ComicStripLand citizens John Rose, Lincoln Peirce, Ray Billingsley, Jef Mallett, Will Henry, Harry Bliss, Andy Marlette, Georgia Dunn, and Bill Watterson. John Rose Celebrates 25 Years Drawing Barney Google and Snuffy Smith We start by toasting John Rose who is celebrating a quarter of a century of being in charge of Barney Google and […]
A few things that stood out this week. Scott Ketcham‘s wildly off-model Dennis the Menace and Joey didn’t bring about the amount of comments I thought it would. Though it sticks out like a sore thumb I am not bothered by it. For those who are there’s another Scott Ketcham panel coming next week. Will […]
For the second time in a month Koko is Out of the Inkwell and into a Zippy strip. Bill Griffith has always referenced classic comics but he seems to be it it more since working on his graphic autobiography. Though not as often as A.I. in Carpe Diem. Those robots are now the de facto […]
Mike started this morning off by giving G. B. Trudeau and Doonesbury the Good Timing Award. Here is the title panel to today’s Doonesbury: Comic Strip Trivia Enjoyed today’s Thatababy and am impressed with Jonathan Lemon’s ability to ape the various named cartoonists’ drawing styles and signing the panel that included one of his current […]
Back when I was that age corporal punishment in schools was alive and well, at least in the religious school I attended, and a comeback like that would have sent me to the principal’s office for a meeting with “the board of education”; if not an immediate slap upside the head. A Public Service for […]
Sunday: To Comma or Not To Comma and Two Title PanelsTwo words in Rubes and two words in Cowtown, both with the proper use of the comma or lack thereof.I think my favorite part of The Sunday Funnies was the dinosaur vignette in Little Oop‘s title panel. Also, for no reason I can discern, the […]
From the Library of Congress blog: While participating in the Library’s Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA), [Lucy Havens] had the privilege of contributing to the Library of Congress’ Of the People initiative by researching the representation of Black cartoon and comic creators in the Library’s Comic Book Collection. Like all media, cartoons […]
Let’s start with some highlights. Hard pressed to a better comic strip than Thursday’s Bok versus The Snowbeast’s battle in Flash Gordon Thursday making the jump from overture to aftermath. Absolutely wonderful was the “Bok draws the warm pelt tight around his shoulders” caption.Possibly only bettered by Rose’s authoritarian statement in Wednesday’s Wallace the Brave. […]
We have had a couple Advance Locals (MLive Media and The Post-Standard) inform us of their coming revisions to the comics pages with Jim Glick, Director of Enterprise Content & Design for Print at Advance Local, giving further details in comments at both items linked above.Now The Cleveland Plain Dealer/cleveland.com has given their readers a […]
VeeFriends and LeePapers; Doonesbury Done in Dallas; Comics Come in for Candorville Cuts. VeeFriends Debut Newspaper Comic Strip If you were like me you would have thought that the images of the comic strip with the publicity surrounding the debut of VeeFriends in Lee newspapers was the actual February 23 comic strip. It wasn’t.With thanks […]
How old fashioned? This old fashioned. My dad made Christmas cards each year back before a whole lot of technical advances, and here is the plate from his 1951 card to prove it. If you mouse over it, you’ll see that I slugged it “cut” because that’s what graphics were referred to back in the […]
So the answer to last week’s question is, as I suspected, that Tina has left the restaurant in order to expand her universe, and congrats to Rina Piccolo for recognizing the difference between Tina’s Groove and Tina’s Rut.Comic strips need to establish a groove. They do not need to dig themselves into a rut.But I […]
I’m cheating: My rule is that a cartoon is fresh until it has been replaced, regardless of date of issue.This Clay Bennett cartoon actually ran a week ago, and, while there are several editorial cartoonists for whom a week-old cartoon remains “current,” Bennett is considerably more prolific than that.Nonetheless, if not “timely” under the rules […]
We’ll start today with a vocabulary lesson, ably illustrated by Jim Morin.There has been a lot of negative response to the one-two punch of Sean Spicer blatantly lying to the press and then Kellyanne Conway explaining that he was using “alternative facts,” and we’ll get to that in a minute, but what stunned me was […]