Musical Chairs Seven weeks plus two strips equal nine creators.Not yet 50 days into the new year and Gil Thorp has had three different artists (Rachel Merrill, Jason Margos, Louie Chin) drawing the coach’s and his family’s melodramatic story. Over at Dick Tracy there have been three writers (Mike Curtis, Matthew K. Manning, Eric Costello) […]
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 WaynoBlog linked […]
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 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 […]
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 GruesomeGot a seven-year-old in my life who complains that her Dad takes naps in […]
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 mind […]
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 on […]
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 […]
Today’s post is going to look a little short, but don’t be fooled: I’m sending you off to other places, so the time spent will be about average. And worthwhile, I promise.First item is a fun piece by Don Asmussen, better known for Bad Reporter, and is a critique of a Roz Chast exhibit currently […]
I was looking back at coverage of the Civil Rights Act a half-century ago and, well, got distracted. We’ll get to the “50 Years Ago” part eventually, but first let’s look at what you’d have looked at if you’d sat down with your paper on April 13, 1914 (This will be a good day to […]
Today’s Argyle Sweater may provoke cheering as well as laughter from an apparently growing group that despises the “Elf on the Shelf,” a relatively new, manipulative way to drive home the message that love is dependent on your behavior.That’s always been part of the non-religious aspect of Christmas: He knows if you’ve been bad or good, […]
Each day, “That is Priceless” takes a piece of classic-era art and gives it a gag caption. Steve Melcher is funny — which he ought to be, since he’s a TV writer — and his blog, though a little unattended lately, has a backlog of gags, including several rude enough that they probably won’t make […]
Believe It Or Not!Pab Sungenis, of “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria,” created a gag about zombies that was both fresh and humorous!Believe It Or Not!In BC, Mason and Mick Mastroianni wrote a “Hunger Games” gag that actually demonstrated some basic familiarity with the story!Believe It Or Not!Kevin Kallaugher drew a cartoon about the presidential race […]