Rick Kirkman, Jerry Scott, and GoComics are announcing that Baby Blues will go strictly rerun beginning next March of 2027 and will be alternating new and rerun material from now until then. Rachel DeSchepper for the GoComics blog reports: All good things must come to an end, and that’s the case for one of our […]
The Sunday Zits comic strip will be original material while the daily Zits will remain in rerun status.The Daily Cartoonist contacted the creators of the Zits comic strip and Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman passed our inquiry on to King Features Executive Editor Amy Anderson who graciously responded: Jerry and Jim will continue to create […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for September 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.E Is for Edward A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey E Is for […]
As Mike noted GoComics dropped the black line from Baby Blues today. They did the same with Phoebe and Her Unicorn (and on the comic strip’s tenth anniversary no less). On the other side of the tracks Comics Kingdom put out Prince Valiant with the blacks but no color. So for the Thomas Scott Roberts […]
Darrin Bell has just branched out into editorial cartoons and I strongly suggest you follow him because he’s swattin’em out of the park faster than I can steal them.I’m really conflicted about this one, because there are an awful lot of cheap and unfair anti-ACA cartoons, as well as cheap and unfair anti-Obama cartoons in […]
I’ll be the first to admit that I love dumb jokes. And, when it comes to dumb jokes, Joe Martin is the champ, with a lineup of strips in which stupid reigns supreme and Willy reigns above all. Willy & Ethel make the misadventures of the Kramdens look like “Dynasty,” and have been doing so […]
One of the issues in comics, as in TV sitcoms, is how you work with the basic concept over an extended period without going stale.I mention TV because I heard an interview with Garry Marshall on Weekend Edition yesterday, and Scott Simon asked him to comment on how Henry Winkler’s character took over on “Happy Days.”I might […]
One of the things Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman always hear is that Zits opens conversations between parents and adolescents, whether that day’s strip features Jeremy or his folks as the butt of the joke. That’s probably why Zits is one of the top strips in terms of the number of papers that feature it, […]
(This is a profile I did of Jerry Scott in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY) Jerry Scott didn’t want a partner for “Zits.” He already was writing “Baby Blues” with artist Rick Kirkman as a partner, but that was another matter. Scott and Kirkman were longtime friends and had determined years ago […]