Mike started this morning off by giving G. B. Trudeau and Doonesbury the Good Timing Award. Here is the title panel to today’s Doonesbury: Comic Strip Trivia Enjoyed today’s Thatababy and am impressed with Jonathan Lemon’s ability to ape the various named cartoonists’ drawing styles and signing the panel that included one of his current […]
Featuring Hägar the Horrible, Dick Tracy, Prince Valiant, The Amazing Spider-Man, Caspar Milquetoast, and Milt Gross; with a special appearance by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Hägar the Horrible debuts above: A rare look at the Sunday color debut of Dik Browne’s Hägar the Horrible courtesy of Larry Levine. Dick Tracy Deaths Rare on the […]
Title PanelsA new Sunday Phantom story, “1536” (four hundred years before the February 1936 start of The Phantom comic strip), means a new Sunday Phantom title panel by Jeff Weigel. Speaking of title panels…I’m enjoying the new weekly title panels Caroline Cash is creating for the Sunday Nancy comic strip. The Olivia Jaimes era only […]
December 25, 1975* — Older Strips # — Special Materials
The annual Guest Jumbler Week with six cartoonists, all syndicated comic strip artists this year, taking over for the regular creators David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek on the very popular Jumble puzzle. Is there a daily newspaper that does not run the feature?The Jumble Facebook page ran the puzzles and short profiles of the […]
The Fearsome FluffyFrom Wikipedia: Fenrir (Old Norse ‘fen-dweller’) or Fenrisúlfr (Old Norse “Fenrir’s wolf”, often translated “Fenris-wolf”), also referred to as Hróðvitnir (Old Norse “fame-wolf”) and Vánagandr (Old Norse ‘monster of the [River] Ván’), is a monstrous wolf in Norse mythology. In Old Norse texts, Fenrir plays a key role during the events of Ragnarök, […]
Forget that Friday the 13th comes on a Monday this month, there are other distractions. Like… John Reiner‘s use of a grease pencil on The Lockhorns was an unexpected and pleasant surprise. Speaking of unexpected: A wormhole? A time tunnel? An interdimensional portal? A rabbit hole? Whatever it is (not even hinted at in the […]
Sunday: To Comma or Not To Comma and Two Title PanelsTwo words in Rubes and two words in Cowtown, both with the proper use of the comma or lack thereof.I think my favorite part of The Sunday Funnies was the dinosaur vignette in Little Oop‘s title panel. Also, for no reason I can discern, the […]
A True CrossoverStarting off this week is a true crossover. not just guest appearances. Sometime in the not-so-distant past Bob Scott, who lives in Southern California and whose comic strip Molly and the Bear appears on Andrew McMeel’s GoComics, got together with Deon Parson, who lives in Indiana and whose Rosebuds comic strip appears on […]
At the 79th Annual Reuben Awards in Boston on August 15, 2025, the National Cartoonists Society will posthumously award the NCS Medal of Honor to Robert “Chance” Browne and Christopher “Chris” Browne, in recognition of their career excellence and enduring contributions to the art of cartooning. The National Cartoonists Society will honor cartooning brothers Chance […]
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 […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2025 release (or so).Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Hägar the Horrible: The First 50 Years by Dik Browne It’s time to set sail with the […]
We have had a couple Advance Locals (MLive Media and The Post-Standard) inform us of their coming revisions to the comics pages with Jim Glick, Director of Enterprise Content & Design for Print at Advance Local, giving further details in comments at both items linked above.Now The Cleveland Plain Dealer/cleveland.com has given their readers a […]
Now that we’ve stopped speculating about his VP selection, we can get down to the really important question.Brian Walker reports that it’s a particular favorite Hagar that Biden has mentioned before.
From Today’s New York Times: This crumbling, beer-splotched wall in the back of a sports bar on East 44th Street is one of New York’s more neglected cultural treasures. Created in the 1970s, it is a veritable Sistine Chapel of American comic-strip art: the 30-some drawings across its face were left by a who’s who of cartooning […]