50 years ago yesterday …If you missed yesterday’s posting, you may want to scroll down for the cartoons from April 13, 1914 and 1939. Meanwhile, here’s a selection from 1964. You may recall that this whole nostalgia thing began with my poking around for Civil Rights Act coverage. As it happens, this John Milt Morris cartoon […]
For the most part, an “interesting” strip that doesn’t make me chuckle is unlikely to get top billing here, but Candorville is often a fairly straightforward piece of social commentary and since — other than his grammar-nazi issues — Darrin Bell generally mirrors my thoughts, well, here we are.(Holy Serendipity, Batman! What an opportunity to point […]
I just made up that word, a portmanteau of “leavening” and “levity,” both of which I’m in the mood for this morning. And then I took the “A” from “leavening” so it could also include Sam Levenson, a Borscht Belt comedian who, checking Google, is a lot more obscure than he deserves to be.Levenson had […]
I’ve never quite gotten the conventions over naming names in the comics.For instance, in today’s comics, both Baby Blues and Between Friends name “Victoria’s Secret,” which was stranger than usual in that they appear one after another on my (alphabetically arranged) DailyInk page.And they both kind of played on the shocking nature of the store, […]
This is suddenly a really good time to pick up on some continuity strips, since several that are worth following are just starting new stories: Over at DailyInk, Rip Kirby has just had a confrontation on a twisty road with this woman who we now discover is a race car driver. The strip is from […]
This Jim Morin panel isn’t exactly the best comic of the day. For one thing, it was the company’s COO, not CEO, who kicked off this whole kerfuffle.But it’s still about the only Chick-fil-A comic that makes a coherent point without relying either on purposefully misreading the facts or on reinforcing the initial bigotry. This […]
It’s been just over a year since Joe Staton and Mike Curtis took over and revitalized the venerable Dick Tracy franchise, and they’ve really hit a nice stride with shorter arcs and villains that are just evil enough to be villains and just silly enough to be fun. Any nitwit can create a hero or a leading […]
This past March, artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis took over Dick Tracy and brought it back from a level of conceptual chaos that had gradually gone beyond appealing camp into unreadable nonsense.Over the past half year, they’re returned it to a basic cops-and-robbers strip with shorter, more coherent plot lines and villains […]