Back when I was that age corporal punishment in schools was alive and well, at least in the religious school I attended, and a comeback like that would have sent me to the principal’s office for a meeting with “the board of education”; if not an immediate slap upside the head. A Public Service for […]
The other day we took Lennie Peterson to the woodshed for claiming all cartoonists work like he does. A couple days later Lennie responded to our objection thru his comic strip The Big Picture. Well, this time we agree with him completely, especially with that panel where he mentions us by name. Also yesterday the […]
Let’s start with what may be the most wonderful seasonal comic strip of the year. Mike Manley always lets us know what season it is in Judge Parker and he does a fantastic job of it in the top two tiers today. While Francesco Marciuliano‘s sentimental, but not mauldlin, script in the lower two tiers […]
Let’s pretend that there are still cities with two newspapers in the U.S. and this is the other’s funny pages. Tiny Type That 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 […]
From the deepest darkest parts of the comics page comes Wallace the Brave, The Argyle Sweater, Rip Haywire, Over the Hedge, Prickly City, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Rubes, Thatababy, Tarzan, Zorro, Prince Valiant, and Tom the Dancing Bug. From Giggles to Gruesome Got a seven-year-old in my life who complains that her Dad takes […]
Notes on Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Shrimp & Grits, Flash Gordon, Crabgrass, Macanudo, Andy Capp, The Saga of Brann Bjornson, Home Free, Heaven Help Us, Crankshaft, Phoebe and Her Unicorn, The Far Side, Thimble Theater Starring Popeye, Wallace the Brave, and including a Ziggy Stardust cameo. With Ripley’s Believe It or Not characterization in […]
The Born Loser, Frank and Ernest, Calvin and Hobbes, Frazz, Bizarro/Bizarfield, Tom the Dancing Bug, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Big Nate, Eye Lie Popeye, Mutts and, of course, more. The Born Loser archive at GoComics only goes back to 1994, so those of you who didn’t see the debut strip from May 10, 1965 […]
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 […]