I’ve known Brian Fies since the turn of the century, before he began unveiling pages of “Mom’s Cancer”at rec.arts.comics.strips for feedback, when he was simply one more poster there, though an amusing and insightful one.As his project evolved from webcomic to book, the group got a good look at how Brian views the intersection of […]
“Peanuts” merchandising rights have been sold to the Canadian company that also controls “Caillou” and “Yo Gabba Gabba” and some similar kids’ stuff.Michael Cavna has the story here.My first impression was that selling out is selling out, a contemptuous reaction tempered strongly by the good work Jeannie Schulz has done for the cartooning community with […]
Interesting find by Brian Fies who came across a book entitled Kids Say the Darndest Things by TV and radio personality Art Linkletter who hosted a radio show of the same title. The book had an introduction by Walt Disney and was illustrated by Charles Schulz.Brian writes:The wild card is Schulz. Peanuts had debuted in […]
Luann is an odd mix of stasis and evolution.Over the near-30 years of its existence, Greg Evans has periodically moved the strip forward from its roots when Luann was a little kid to the current period, in which she is a high-school junior. These moments have included changes in both her age and some plot […]
An encouraging strip from xkcd.The strip isn’t explicitly autobiographical, but it isn’t not-autobiographical, either, which is a facet of modern cartooning that matters. Some artists are explicitly autobiographical, like Keith Knight, others are implicitly autobiographical, like Adam Huber, and some put the comic on its own footing but are very open about the creative process, […]
On some days, my interest in one strip stems from it being closely related to another. That could be from two strips riffing on the same topic, as with Arlo & Janis:I’m kind of worried about smartphones, because I see them as an extension of the electronic leash, and I used to feel that way […]