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 […]
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 […]
There have been more than a few references to comic strips on the funny pages lately. As has always been the case, most recently shown in Back to B.C. when the art form meant more to newspapers than they presently do. The Back to B.C. reruns about comic strips started August 25 while the Barney […]
Let’s pretend that there are still cities with two newspapers in the U.S. and this is the other’s funny pages.Tiny TypeThat other paper’s comics section featured a Nick Newman cartoon about our aging eyesight…Which brought to mind today’s Flo and Friends. There are a couple of legitimate fears there but the tiny fonts is more […]
Spotlight on Arlo and Janis; Luann; Crankshaft; Barney & Clyde; Reply All/Reply All Lite; Bottom Liners; Lio.Come July 29 Arlo and Janis will have been around for 40 years and cartoonist Jimmy Johnson, as is his wont, will be celebrating the anniversary this coming week, but with a twist as he “remasters” some classic comic […]
So checking the Tribune Content Agency (TCA) comics page I noticed a “new” feature had appeared. Actually a comic that has been around for 14 years but new to TCA – Reply All by Donna A. Lewis.Last year when the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) dropped comics from the agenda Donna took her daily strip […]
In a few days (April 1, 2025) the new GoComics website will present itself to the world at large, and while we don’t have any details as to most of what will be new and improved we have an idea of what it may look like.Yeah the new (top) page is going to look snazzier […]