Original February 1 post:Cartoonist Terry Beatty, who both writes and draws the Rex Morgan, M.D. comic strip has had the good doctor and Rex and June’s son Johnny in for surgery these days. Now it is Terry Beatty himself headed for the operating room. From Terry’s Facebook page: Well, folks, I suppose it’s time to […]
A new Sunday story in The Phantom means a new title panel by Sunday artist Jeff Weigel. A big, wonderful Prince Valiant panel by Thomas Yeates as Val and company begin their own new adventure.Current Popeye cartoonist Randy Milholland has some fun with the present status of the comic strip of new Sundays and daily […]
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 […]
Unfortunate TruthsAn unfortunate truth from WuMo: Background on lorem ipsum from Jack Shepard. Not to be confused with Charles Brubaker’s Lauren Ipsum. On a related journalistic note from Susie MacNelly and Ben Lansing and Shoe: The above comes with my repeated plea for GoComics to replace the Gary Brookins credit above the comic strip with […]
There’s a fair amount of repurposed classic art going around paying tribute to the lockdown, some better than others.Many people have been riffing on Hopper’s Nighthawks, for instance, but it’s already a portrait of emptiness to begin with. You can only make his point more obvious.But while American Gothic has also had plenty of parodies, […]
Macanudo, because why not? Also because, if you want to read something cosmic into it, it’s there. And if you don’t, it’s not.I don’t say that lightly. When I wrote about Leniers’ appearance at the combined CXC/AAEC convention this spring, I spoke about his puckish willingness to be silly one day and moderately profound the […]
No major theme today, but some things I’ve wanted to share … Rex Morgan is, for the moment, leaving the Morgan family to sort out adding another toddler to the brood in order to focus on cartoon forgery. About a year ago, the Morgans moved into a new house and discovered a cache of old comics […]
The Buckets looks at the very deadest week of the year.I mentioned recently how much I hated doing “Year End Wrapups” when I was in the newsroom, but we needed them because nothing happened in the week between Christmas and New Years, and, if it did, you couldn’t find anyone to comment on it because […]
You’re lucky I’m here: Having spent several years sorting out press releases in the newsroom, I think I can track the swaps that came from King Features’ “Editor’s Dispatch” this morning, which at first glance reminds me of those animated cartoons where Bugs Bunny and an adversary would be running in and out of doors on […]