Today’s Bliss brought about a flashback. The kids were about 3 and 7 and we’d all been East to visit my family. This was before computerization and reserving your seats ahead of time, and somehow the airline broke up our party into three and one. We explained to someone or other that this wasn’t going […]
Featuring Crabgrass, Pogo, The Saga of Brann Bjornson, Macanudo, Blondie, Broom-Hilda, Garfield, Mark Trail, Cornered, Shrimp & Grits, and more, including Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless! Batty Squirrels The second row of today’s two-tiered Crabgrass introduced new characters who I would like to see return. Matt, the unseen Jeff, Pam, and the unnamed Pam’s […]
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 […]
The new issue of Seven Days profiles Macanudo cartoonist Ricardo Liniers Siri. Remarkably little seems to happen in “Macanudo,” the daily comic strip created by Ricardo Liniers Siri, the Argentine cartoonist known professionally as Liniers. If you were forced to describe any given Liniers strip purely in terms of plot, you would end up saying […]
Before we get too far away from last Sunday… Wallpaper A few “wallpaper” (where the image remains the same) strips Sunday with Macanudo, Slylock Fox, and Doonesbury. The Slylock Sunday included the above Two Scenes Alike feature plus Spot the Differences and How to Draw components so it had a lot of sameness on their […]
Funny you should mention it, Jen. My friend and I were discussing movies we were supposed to like but didn’t, which included a mashup of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and the Lion in Winter called “Guess Who’s Coming to the Crusades,” in which Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine exchange witty suburban repartee some […]
With Alfredo P. Alcala, Jim Keefe, Stephan Pastis, Charles M. Schulz, Ricardo (Liniers) Siri, Bill Watterson, Brian Walker, and Scott Jerolds. An Alfredo Alcala Centenary This is a days late acknowledgement of Filipino cartoonist Alfredo P. Alcala’s birth day 100 years ago. His comic book art in the Philippines and in the U.S. is justly […]
Nancy has taken a strange turn lately. Not in a historically strange Nancy comic strip way, but in a strange for cartoonist Olivia Jaimes way. Since Olivia started riffing on cartoonists and comics a couple weeks ago (the change struck even earlier in July) it seems she has taken to emulating the prime Ernie Bushmiller […]
Midweek Olivia Jaimes began what a series of Nancy strips riffing on her profession. While Richard Thompson in the throwback Cul de Sac show us how those unorganized underground cartoonists probably created those jam comix. Previewing next week’s Reuben Awards yesterday we had Intelligent Life, Macanudo, and Thatababy celebrating recognizable comic strips of the past […]
There is no reason for Garg, who had earlier complained that Alley never took him on Oop’s time-traveling escapades, to remember the siege at Troy. But there is good reason for Alley Oop to remember it. The Name Game Then Bill Holbrook play’s mind games as On The Fastrack‘s Mars Mission group gets to know […]
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 […]
Let’s start with some highlights. Hard pressed to a better comic strip than Thursday’s Bok versus The Snowbeast’s battle in Flash Gordon Thursday making the jump from overture to aftermath. Absolutely wonderful was the “Bok draws the warm pelt tight around his shoulders” caption. Possibly only bettered by Rose’s authoritarian statement in Wednesday’s Wallace the […]
The premise of Macanudo is that two children living in Nuevo Aires, Henrietta and Martincito, possess imaginations so powerful that it gives them the special ability to see the invisible, magical world underlying the lives of children everywhere. This power is called “Macanudo,” giving the strip its name. In its native country, the strip is […]
Dick Tracy, Mutts, Macanudo, Moomin, Marmaduke, and 2025 Eisner Award nominations and a bunch of cartoonists associated with the aforementioned. Mike and McDonnell Return (briefly?) Today ends Eric Costello‘s seven month “guest writer” stint on Dick Tracy as Mike Curtis returns as the credited writer beginning Sunday, May 18, 2025 (no “guest writer” insert). We’ll […]
The important thing to know about those helicopters is that if you split the bulgy part, the inside is just sticky enough that you can wear the thing on your nose as a Cyrano extension. The Northern Forest is coming to life, with trilliums and jack in the pulpits providing some early color and a […]