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 […]
Notes on newspaper comics from the past week. Since Randy Milholland got the Popeye assignment a few years ago he has been trawling through the hero’s history for characters. Now he has landed Popeye Junior. Is this meeting of Swee’pea and Junior a first?This Popeye adventure started 16 months ago on August 22, 2024. At […]
Walt Handelsman’s LAST Cartoon Caption ContestWalt Handelsman‘s retirement isn’t only the end of his political cartooning, it is also the end of his Caption Contest. NOLA.com announces the last chance to caption a cartoon drawn by Walt.Emi Brudge’s Last OliveA while back I wondered what was going to happen with the newspapers that were carrying […]
While Bill Hinds seems to be the permanent cartoonist for Marmaduke now, Kit Mills has stepped in for Rachel Merrill as the Gil Thorp “guest artist” for this week at least. We’ll see how long the guest stays. I can only guess that Rachel needed some time to work on her and Henry Barajas‘ Death […]
Starting out with… Proof of Publishment The twice weekly Olive & Popeye comic strip has been around since 2022, but now there is proof that it is being published in at least one newspaper via the King Features Weekly Service (KFWS). The Sidney (Nebraska) Sun-Telegraph comics page for their March 6, 2025 issue shows the […]