Surprises Cathy Commiserating with the people of Minneapolis was an unexpected show of support. Cathy Guisewite got all kinds of love on her Facebook and Instagram pages for sending good thoughts.Also out of the blue came Ben Zaehringer referencing Lewis Carroll’s cautionary tale of “The Walrus and The Carpenter” in In the Bleachers this past […]
Cathy Commiserations, Thatababy, Archie, Baseball America, Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Andy Capp, Rosebuds, and For Better or For Worse; plus Awards – The Splats, The Eisners, and Graphic Medicine. Including a 1950-2023 timeline of The Most Widely Circulated Syndicated Comic Strips.Cathy Guisewite, who took an extended sabbatical, has returned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Sunday Post is embracing its new Sunday comics section. The Washington Post? No. The Connecticut Post? No. The Palm Beach Post? No.The New York Post? Not hardly. If you guessed The Dundee Scotland Sunday Post reward yourself with clootie pudding. From John Freeman at downthetubes: The Sunday Post is one of the remaining newspapers […]
From Biographic is everything you need to know about Christiano Ronaldo: Andrews McMeel has their GoComics site fixed, now they need to work on the newspapers’ e-editions. Speaking of Steve McGarry – he returned to KidTown today after handing it over to Luke McGarry for June. I always thought Bob Scott used actual newspaper Sunday […]
GoComics still shuffling the deck The top tiers for some Andrews McMeel Syndication strips have returned (Adam @ Home and Big Nate) while others are still not being made whole (The Born Loser and JumpStart). I was particularly happy to see the Little Oop and Dark Side of the Horse top tiers restored as I […]
Flash Gordon and Dale Arden re-imagined, Tom the Dancing Bug re-imagines Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts; Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem debuts in 1937; also: Sunnyboy Sam from 1937; comic strips from the Museum of Modern Art; Frazz in reruns explained; a couple changes from GoComics; and some Vintage changes at Comics Kingdom.Who’s WhoRemember […]
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 […]
Starting out with… Proof of Publishment The twice weekly Olive & Popeye comic strip has been around since 2022, but now there is proof that it is being published in at least one newspaper via the King Features Weekly Service (KFWS). The Sidney (Nebraska) Sun-Telegraph comics page for their March 6, 2025 issue shows the […]
Cartoonist Dan Schkade is taking a break from drawing the Flash Gordon comic strip. His new Lowland Station Tales episode that started February 10, 2025 begins with an introduction written and drawn by Dan.But after that introductory week the following individual week-long chapters are being drawn by guest artists. First up is “The Gladiator” running […]