Bill Cooper for Spectrum Culture reviews the new biography Trudeau & Doonesbury by Joshua Kendall. “Garry Trudeau, lives privately and shuns interviews. Freelance journalist Joshua Kendall shines some light on the creator in his latest biography, Trudeau & Doonesbury. “Though Trudeau & Doonesbury covers politics, it focuses on Trudeau’s life and how it impacted his […]
I pass on the relief I felt when I saw the “GH” in a Hagar the Horrible. Gary Hallgren frequently lets us know he is still ghosting Hagar by slipping in his initials but it had been six weeks (August 9) since the last sighting and I had begun to worry that the former underground […]
We’ll start today’s collection of Quick Takes with a quick take of its own. The idea of Duke joining the Trump administration is exciting, but I’m not sure it can work in Doonesbury’s once-a-week format, which is a shame, but Trudeau’s best work was not done in quick takes. He did extended narratives, building characters […]
The second panel of today’s Over the Hedge comic strip had me thinking it was a rerun from 10 years ago since the commonly accepted though erroneous start of the Sunday funnies is closer to 130 years ago, not 120. But the copyright reads 2026 and I find nothing to dispute that. I do give […]
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Brave, crazy, whatever. Wallace reminds me that summer vacation involved not just lying in the sunshine looking for shapes in the clouds but also some truly irrational adventures. Not that we didn’t come up with some loony things the rest of the year, but in the dead of winter, we were a bit more confined […]
Genesis 4:8 – Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go for a walk.” (Contemporary English Version) Unlike today’s Pearls Before Swine, which I instantly figured out what was going on, it took a double take for me to transliterate the words in Pluggers to names and figure out what was what. Bragging rights: I […]
Drew Litton’s Slippery Slopes, Dan Thompson’s Comic Stew, G.B. Trudeau and Nicole Hollander and Doonesbury, In Person: Keith Knight, Phil Hands’ Mendota Marsh, The Sunday Post comics are Inkredible, and then it’s decision time: Mickey or Snoopy? Drew Litton Presents… Drew Litton’s Beyond the Drawing Board Substack presents a baker’s dozen of Slippery Slopes comic […]
Mike Peterson’s Comic Strip of the Day brings up a sore spot with me: the quickly vanishing same day online sources where one can find the Sunday Doonesbury title panel. At the beginning of this year I had three online sites to find that panel. Pete Hegseth took the Stars and Stripes (scroll down) opportunity […]
Dark Side of the Horse doesn’t get a lot of exposure here because it’s not fair use to republish a cartoon without commentary, and there’s rarely anything to say except, “This made me laugh,” which doesn’t count as a critique. But it often makes me laugh.My commentary is that the cartoonist is a Finn, and […]
Movie News In August 1958 Charlie Brown first took pen to paper to write to a far away friend. That relationship lasted for forty years. Now, as they did with The Little Red-Haired Girl, the animated Peanuts is about to show us Charlie Brown’s mysterious pen pal. From Mark Kennedy at The Independent: The identity […]
I like Chilton’s art (which comes from the New Cartoonist), but both the subject matter and the setting are a reminder that the Whole World Is Watching, and it isn’t cheering us on. There are worse things to export than Disney films, but this is still an indication of how much our culture, such as […]
Rolling Stone has published an excerpt of the upcoming biography Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography (non-paywall link). The subtitle of the article would make me read it, even if I wasn’t already interested: “How cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became a Rolling Stone writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson so much that the gonzo journalist mailed […]
Mrs. Olsen is a lot more understanding than a lot of commenters on GoComics and Comics Kingdom who seem to be in a constant state of aggravation over a lot of comic strip characters. Some more than others: Comic strips are visual first script second and when Mallard Fillmore came up my first reaction was […]
I got a particular laugh out of this RWO, because I worked at a paper where they had mugshots of the staff on a bulletin board in the break room. It was handy, because you could learn the names of people in other departments who you ran into in only a superficial way.But it became […]