CBS Mornings today helps celebrate 75 years of Beetle Bailey with an eight minute segment with The Walker Bros.: Brian, Greg, and Neal (the report even shows “The Walker Bros.” signed strip Betty Boop and Felix.)A nice history of Mort, Beetle, and The Walker Brothers.
Featuring Beetle Bailey (now updated), Peanuts (this too has an update), Hogan’s Alley, Nemo, Comics Revue, Extra Ordinary Comics, MazeToons, Popeye, and I Hate Fairyland with corresponding cartoonists.75 Years of Beetle Bailey “Beetle Bailey” is the rare popular culture touchstone that has been embedded in daily life since its debut on Sept. 4, 1950. CT […]
A selection of 4th of July comics strips from 2025 and 1925.
The opening panel of Prince Valiant took my mind to the long-gone time of black light posters. That panel would have made a great one. And maybe that is what got me thinking about the colors at Comics Kingdom, they seemed more vibrant today. Even the pastels appear to be more pastel-ly. Beetle Bailey came […]
There are other things going on in the world than “two insane nitwits waving nuclear weapons,” and Phil Hands takes note of the promises of Foxxcon in Wisconsin.Which, like Jack and the Beanstalk and so much more, relies on people believing things they really ought not to. Jack emerged from the story a hero, but he […]
There’s a traditional practice in comicstripology of analyzing news to project lead time, and a more modern practice of analyzing it to project print circulation of a strip.Which is to say, if a strip can comment on current news, it’s probably web-only or nearly so.Print clients like having strips in hand well in advance, and […]
I am not particularly obsessed with age at the moment, despite having just hit the magical Sgt. Pepper milestone, which I noted the other day with some links to prufrockian thoughts of the past.Still, the issue of coming into the home stretch is there, and, while today’s Beetle Bailey made me laugh in a “there […]
Hadn’t expected to natter on any more about my cartooning roots after yesterday, but, over at the Daily Ink, the Archivist blog has brought back a repressed memory that combines two of my favorite topics:1. Comics2. Stupid newspaper managementThis month being the Phantom and Diana’s 35th wedding anniversary, the Archivist has memories of their 1977 […]