Some notes on newspaper comic strips from the past week. King Features Gets Into the Foodservice Business It is not unusual for Zippy to visit a diner, though he did so in five of the six dailies this week. And the Motel Cafe has been the center of the Rex Morgan universe for three months […]
Comic Strip News and Revues. Now and Then I seem to bringing up Caroline Cash’s Nancy on a regular basis since she took over the strip this year, but she keeps reminding me of Bushmiller‘s Nancy. Especially early Ernie endeavors: There was more Bushmilleresque Nancy from Cash Monday. Speaking of synchronicity separated by decades. i […]
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 […]
Let’s start with some highlights. Hard pressed to a better comic strip than Thursday’s Bok versus The Snowbeast’s battle in Flash Gordon Thursday making the jump from overture to aftermath. Absolutely wonderful was the “Bok draws the warm pelt tight around his shoulders” caption.Possibly only bettered by Rose’s authoritarian statement in Wednesday’s Wallace the Brave. […]
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 […]
GuestsFlash Gordon isn’t the only comic strip with guest creators this week, Dick Tracy began a new story with a guest writer – though the guest writer remains Eric Costello. I understand that Mike Curtis is in ill health, but sooner than later Eric is going to have to get a promotion from “guest” to […]
The Good News first: As seen in this cartoon by Australian cartoonist Glen Le Lievre, Eaten Fish, the young Iranian cartoonist imprisoned in an Australian detention camp, has been freed and taken to an undisclosed safe city in Northern Europe.I wrote about Eaten Fish in this February posting about press freedom and responsibility.A lot of […]
Okay, one political piece, and only because Bad Reporter is consistently silly, even when he’s right on. It is beyond me how anybody can put Omarosa on his staff and then throw a term like “lightweight” at another woman, or another man, or a piece of furniture.But I did notice that, while there were multiple signatures […]
Steve Sack gets the last word on this, or, at least, the last word here.As I suspected, the pages now are full of Roy Moore on his horse and Trump being upset. I’m pleased to see the hoopla, because I think the real significance of the election was that it will encourage people to get […]
Disclaimer: I didn’t watch the speech.I made an effort to listen to it on the radio but dozed off and on throughout it and the analysis that followed, so about all I really came away with was that, as David Rowe’s cartoon suggests, he stayed on script.And then this morning, as I checked the news, […]
Start with a bit of Granite State humor. Stephanie Piro, one of the Six Chix, lives about an hour and a half east of me, and so, while that’s about as far apart laterally as you can get in this not terribly wide state, we’re sort of neighbors.She describes herself as “once a NYer, always […]
First, an opening prayer, led not by Pope Francis but by Brother Leo, the gentle innocent in the strip. We’ll continue this theme in our closing hymn, but, meanwhile, my apologies for addressing other themes this morning.I wish I could be half the fool Brother Leo is. In the meantime, I’ll settle for being silly, and Mike […]
I’ll admit I haven’t been following TV coverage of the Oregon standoff, but between Jen Sorensen’s take and Ann Telnaes’s animation and a few lesser commentaries, I gather the media confusion I cited yesterday has not cleared up appreciably.I have noticed that disjointed reporting continues in on-line sources and, meanwhile, the false equivalencies continue to flourish […]
Clay Jones on the dismay conservatives are expressing over the release of Sgt.Bowe Bergdahl from five years as a POW.Apparently, letting Qatar act as a go-between to set up a prisoner exchange is not, in their minds, as noble as breaking an international arms embargo to sell weapons to Iran and then using the money […]
Let’s start with Tom Toles’ latest, since it’s not only self-explanatory but a little over-explained. He didn’t have to drag Yogi along to show his source for a famous quote that perfectly mocks the false-logic of current attacks.If there is something encouraging in all this, it is that a constant drumbeat of misunderstanding, spin, exaggeration […]