Princess Bride Adapted to Comic Strips It seems that every scene of The Princess Bride will eventually find its way into Dan Schkade’s Flash Gordon. From earlier this year: And now insects of unusual size. Shrinkflation in the Comics It wouldn’t surprise me to see the dozen carton of eggs reduced to ten with no […]
Timing John McPherson, who drew this weeks (months?) ago, gets the Good Timing Award this week. When I hear Mark Trail canon I think Ed Dodd canon. Turns out to be earlier this year Jules Rivera canon. There was a time, way before your time Dear Reader, when an insert called Parade was an ever-present […]
From the Jane Goodall Institute: Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace and world-renowned ethologist, conservationist, and humanitarian, has died at the age of 91 of natural causes. Dr. Jane was known around the world for her 65-year study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania. However, in the […]
Sunday: To Comma or Not To Comma and Two Title Panels Two 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 […]
Joann Mackenzie for the Glouchester Daily Times talks to local cartoonist Mark Parisi (or here), nominated for the National Cartoonists Society’s 2024 Cartoonist of the Year aka The Reuben Award. Now in its 38th year and distributed daily by United Press Syndicate [sic] to some 100 newspapers, “Off The Mark” [link added] has been described […]
GoComics still shuffling the deck The top tiers for some Andrews McMeel Syndication strips have returned (Adam @ Home and Big Nate) while others are still not being made whole (The Born Loser and JumpStart). I was particularly happy to see the Little Oop and Dark Side of the Horse top tiers restored as I […]
So to catch everyone up, GoComics apparently now updates at 3 a.m. Eastern Time, which likely only effects me, Arcamax quit updating a whole slew of political cartoons about a month ago, and Counterpoint now has a new format for its subscribers that includes more comics more often. And I’m still here every day. Andy […]
This was amusing when it ran last week, but not nearly as funny as RFK Jr has made it seem since. Either he’s becoming less guarded in his statements or else his jumbled logic, which doesn’t really qualify as logic, is building to a crescendo. There’s more measles popping up around the country, which isn’t […]
Wikipedia confirms my hunch that Lucky Charms was the first cereal to start adding candy. My skepticism over the move is likely because I was 14 when they were introduced and so somewhat above the fray. Our mother had a rule that we could only have two cereal boxes open at a time: One sugared, […]
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 […]
The doctor is correct: There’s a lot of bad news going on and not a lot of good news, and all sorts of mostly depressing things to cartoon about. The problem is that the political cartoons don’t have much impact if you don’t pause once in awhile. So here we are, and I’d remind you […]
You’ll note Santa’s helmet at the left. This banner was from 1944, 80 years ago, six months after D-Day and right in the heart of the Battle of the Bulge, which explains the light in the window at the right. The war was also in the heart of most comic strips on Christmas that year. […]
In this Candorville (KFS), Lemont echoes my feelings about scabdrivers. I don’t think we even have taxis out here in the sticks, but I’ve been to a couple of conventions where I got to sample both the licensed cabs and the unlicensed drivers, and I’m sticking to my original thoughts, which echo Lemont’s. I know […]
The timing of this morning’s Carpe Diem (KFS) got a laugh, because its commentary on computer security came hard on the heels of an article in Forbes, which said the FBI is warning people about texting from iPhones to Androids or vice-versa. It seems Chinese intelligence has found a way to intercept these messages. Tulsi! […]
Loose Parts (AMS) hits at a good moment. I tried a hole-in-the-wall pizza place yesterday, and when I paid, got one of those screens. I don’t believe in tipping counterhelp and you’re not supposed to tip the owner, so I hit “No tip.” Again. Again. Again. Finally. “I’ll bet the 25% one goes right through,” […]