Before diving into today’s comics let’s give a little throwback love to Percy Crosby. That was a beautiful Skippy panel that Skippy Inc. and GoComics ran two days ago. It really makes us yearn for the days when cartoonists had the acreage to display their pen and ink talents. Hat tip to Jef Mallett for […]
Comic Strip Roll Call: Dick Tracy, Molly and the Bear, Gil Thorp, Nancy, The Phantom, The New Adventures of Queen Vitoria, The Gumps, Mutt and Jeff, Gasoline Alley, Ignatz Mouse and Krazy Kat, Happy Hooligan, and The Yellow Kid in Hogan’s Alley.With Matthew K. Manning and Howie Noel‘s six week turn as guest creators on […]
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 […]
Author and TCJ comics reviewer Frank M. Young looks at the new Nancy by Caroline Cash, with a hat tip to Ernie Bushmiller‘s original and the Olivia Jaimes‘ reboot, at Prospect Magazine. Comics characters often outlive their creators. Some have carried on for decades, others more than a century, picked up by new artists and […]
That two panel Nancy/No Ice in context, Revolutionary War comix, Bootleg Calvin and Hobbes, 2026’s Free Comic Book Day. Comic Giveaway Day (it’s complicated), 2026’s Best Picture Oscar eligible animation, powerhouses Disney and Webtoon partner.The Nancy NoticeAnyone with access to social media has seen those Nancy “Notice/No Ice” panels, it is ubiquitous. What may surprise […]
Was distracted by some other projects lately and fell behind on opining and reporting comic strip news.New Year New ArtCaroline Cash took on the Nancy comic strip on Thursday January 1, 2026 and in showing Nancy through the ages, or artists if you prefer, nailed her opening show.An Old Year’s Day AnniversaryDecember 31, 2025 marked […]
A random collection of cartoons and reactions today: Eddie, being a little kid, has an idealistic view of things and expects all the hoopla about the new year to mean that something is new. His mom has seen more years come and go, but at least remembers younger days.I’ve been seeing things online saying that […]
This is an installment of 2025 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: Dearly Departed)2025 DETOURS/DEVIATIONS Some changes to U. S. newspaper comic strips and panels in 2025. 2025 began with Eric Costello as the guest writer of […]
December 25, 1975* — Older Strips # — Special Materials
Nancy is one of a handful of ongoing comic strips that can trace its origins back to over a hundred years, the others include Gasoline Alley, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, and Popeye.*So naturally those comics pass into other cartoonists’ hands over time. That time has come for Nancy.GoComics’ latest […]
The resurgence of Nancy takes another step forward next month when Caroline Cash takes control of the ninety-three year old comic strip star. New life invigorated the Nancy comic strip when the anonymous Olivia Jaimes took over in 2018 to varied response from rejection to high praise, with the praise getting most of the media’s […]
A month ago Nancy said goodbye to Olivia, now Olivia is saying goodbye to Nancy.Last month it was revealed that “Olivia Jaimes” was retiring from the Nancy comic strip. After nearly a decade of creating the strip, Olivia Jaimes has retired. The new Nancy strips will debut January 1, 2026. Nancy classics (by previous Nancy creator Ernie Bushmiller) will run until […]
The Failure of G. B. Trudeau My childhood dream, like the popularity of print newspapers, inevitably faded. I had long been bewitched by the comics pages folded into each edition of the Times-Picayune, the newspaper with which I grew up in my suburb of New Orleans. The pages stood out because of the implicit respect […]
Future Funnies The Ghost Who Walks is back, this time, in a future that feels all too close. This week, Comics Kingdom launches Phantom 2040: A New Shadow—a brand-new webcomic that reimagines the world’s first costumed hero for the fractured year of 2040. If you know your comics history, you already know The Phantom’s pedigree: […]
Before we get too far away from last Sunday… WallpaperA 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 Sunday […]