Becky Fillinger for The Minneapolis Times conducts a short interview with cartoonist Jim Keefe. Our neighbor Jim Keefe is the illustrator and colorist for the Sally Forth comic strip. He frequently references places in the Twin Cities in the strip – keep reading for fun examples. We talked to Jim about cartooning as a career (he’s had […]
Rex Morgan, M.D. writer/artist Terry Beatty reports that he is home from the surgeons cracking his chest open: Anyhow, I am pleased to report I am out of the hospital, back home, and settling in to a post surgery recovery situation. I hit the markers for hospital discharge sooner than expected, and while not everything […]
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 […]
God Bless The Child That Got Their OwnIt’s very possible that the ages of the kids in Crabgrass and Frazz has been mentioned before and I never paid attention to it, but I always figured that they were a couple years older than what was established in today’s strips. Having grandchildren currently in the 7-9 […]
It’s All in the Timing That was some timing for Zippy to mention Superman #1 at the same time as a near mint issue sells for $12,200,000. What are the chances that Griffy was aware of the auction deadline a month earlier when he created the strip? Much less likely is that Dave Whamond would […]
After a month off Rachel Merrill returned as Gil Thorp artist for only two weeks before handing it off to Kit Mills again for an undetermined guest artist run. While Guest Jumbler week at Jumble keeps rolling along.Loose Parts this week brought back memories for old Marvelmaniacs. New GoComics Standards GoComics has published their set […]
With Alfredo P. Alcala, Jim Keefe, Stephan Pastis, Charles M. Schulz, Ricardo (Liniers) Siri, Bill Watterson, Brian Walker, and Scott Jerolds.An Alfredo Alcala Centenary This is a days late acknowledgement of Filipino cartoonist Alfredo P. Alcala’s birth day 100 years ago. His comic book art in the Philippines and in the U.S. is justly acclaimed, […]
Nancy has taken a strange turn lately. Not in a historically strange Nancy comic strip way, but in a strange for cartoonist Olivia Jaimes way. Since Olivia started riffing on cartoonists and comics a couple weeks ago (the change struck even earlier in July) it seems she has taken to emulating the prime Ernie Bushmiller […]
There is no reason for Garg, who had earlier complained that Alley never took him on Oop’s time-traveling escapades, to remember the siege at Troy. But there is good reason for Alley Oop to remember it. The Name GameThen Bill Holbrook play’s mind games as On The Fastrack‘s Mars Mission group gets to know each […]
The Strange Case of Merlin’s World of Marvels This week saw Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) drop Merlin’s World of Marvels from their lineup. There is an amazing dearth of information about the feature. The Wayback Machine shows it was available from AMS since at least 2019, but an Andrews McMeel Universal pdf “fact sheet” shows […]
Some quick hits about strips in today’s colored comics supplement. My mornings:It’s a vicious circle as previewed in Garfield‘s title panel with the results in Take It From the Tinkersons. “Leaving on a jet plane” “Don’t know when I’ll be back again” Some synchronicity between Judge Parker and Willy Black today. More Marciuliano… I know […]
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 […]
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 a […]
Dog Eats Doug (Creators) has a sweet story arc just starting on weekdays. Since the death of the original Sophie who inspired the cartoon version (but was much older), I understand Brian Anderson has been fostering adoptable dogs, and, even if he hasn’t, the family in the strip has.“Fostering” means giving a dog a place […]
We’ve talked a lot about how politics have been sneaking over onto the funny pages, but now the funny stuff is sneaking over onto the editorial pages, as witness this K Chronicles (Daily Kos).The punchline particularly put me on the floor since, as I think I’ve mentioned, Trump began his reign with a lie about […]