Fran Krause, Nate Fakes, Caroline Cash, Keith Knight, and Deon Parson from the Cartoonists File. Fran Krause’s Deep Dark Fears Comics has the wonderful ability to seamlessly flow between the imagined or metaphorical and the real…The quaint but macabre swipe comic Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause is an excellent example of this singular power. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Deon Parson, Kate Beaton, Barbara Shermund, Art Spiegelman, Colin Whittock, Alison Bechdel, Clay Jones$upr Dee Parson Parson, 29, is the creator of multiple comic strips, including “Life With Kurami” (debuted in 2015); “Pen and Ink” (debuted in 2017); and “Rosebuds” (debuted in 2019). “Rosebuds” has been Parson’s biggest financial success thus far in his career. […]