“Growing Up Luann: 40 Years of Comics” Exhibit It’s been 40 years since local artist Greg Evans debuted his now famous comic strip “Luann.” That same year, he attended Comic-Con for the first time. The longtime resident of San Marcos said a lot has changed since then. But one thing that hasn’t changed is the […]
From Biographic is everything you need to know about Christiano Ronaldo: Andrews McMeel has their GoComics site fixed, now they need to work on the newspapers’ e-editions. Speaking of Steve McGarry – he returned to KidTown today after handing it over to Luke McGarry for June. I always thought Bob Scott used actual newspaper Sunday […]
It was good news today as GoComics/Andrews McMeel has heard the pleas of comics fans and restored their Sunday comics to the full three tier format or title panels to most of their strips and panels. Comics that have full original content making up the top tier of their comics all seem to be posted […]
Blondie and Dagwood and … Blame Blondie by Dean Young and John Marshall (actually Elmo) for this post’s title. So is John Zakour and Scott Roberts’ Working Daze situated in the city where Dagwood works? Lou from Dagwood’s favorite diner showed up in the Working Daze panel today. One more Blondie as part of today’s […]
TributesLalo Alcaraz thanks Jules Feiffer for his service to cartoonists and humanity in today’s La Cucaracha. While cartoonist John Hambrock riffs on Rube Goldberg in The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee.Then Greg and Karen Evans recall a famous Philippe Halsman photo shoot from 1952 in Luann. Prince(ss) Val(entina) and The AdventurersIt seems Prince Valiant has […]
Greg and Karen Evans and Luann fans around the world are celebrating forty years of the comic strip. On Sunday March 17, 1985 a thirteen year old Luann began appearing on comics pages. Greg and Karen have a few celebratory items at their Luann Fan site. “How Luann Begann” is Greg telling how his dream […]
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 […]
Hate to burst your bubble, Agnes (Creators), but these things are scattered all over the Internet and everybody seems to be filling them in exactly the way you are.I really need to take a break from social media. In fact, let’s take a break from politics, too. There are too many imponderables out there, and I […]
Mother’s Day brought out a sort of history, unintentionally emphasizing that oddly untethered view of time and society comic strips offer, so let’s pick on Luann (AMS).She’s a good character to launch the topic, because she’s one of those loveable cartoon airheads, and, in this case, has absorbed the current pop culture concept that women […]
Existential Comics gave me a laugh this morning when most quasi-political attempts at humor have failed, and I suspect this one was in the works before last week’s upheaval anyway.We read “Das Kapital” in college, but I don’t remember much about Marx’s personal life. On the other hand, I have encountered this monomoniacal True Believer […]
While we avoid politics on Friday, the term “funnies” doesn’t preclude serious commentary, of which this Non Sequitur (AMS) is a good example.There are all sorts of comics about masks and social distancing, and some are silly, which is fine, since escapism is a good thing as long as it doesn’t lapse into denial.And we’re […]
(Non Sequitur — AMS)(Prickly City — AMS)The most unpleasant part of our current situation is that a pair of cartoonists, working from different sides of the political spectrum, could drop such spot-on strips today, despite each working with a substantial lead time.We’re that divided politically, and, more than that, we’ve also divided between people who […]
People who don’t understand editorial cartooning often look for humor instead of incisive commentary, but the point is to have a point, not to get a laff.However, Signe Wilkinson offers a rare chance to get both with this one. I take Trump’s attempt to corrupt and thereby deny the November elections very seriously, but her […]
It’s getting really hard to avoid politics on Friday, and Rabbits Against Magic provides a demonstration.I suppose there were people who listened to FDR’s Fireside Talks or Churchill’s encouragement during the Blitz and dismissed them as partisan politics, but not many.Anyway, the “pollution” analogy holds for me. It’s everywhere. Granted that Non Sequitur runs on the […]
Joe Heller is out in Wisconsin, where they have some pretty fabulous autumns, but his cartoon works equally well here in New England, though our heat wave was nothing like what I sweated through in Columbus this past week.However, I came home to find sweatshirt weather and a lot more color than I had left. […]