Okay it is Gary Larson and Andrews McMeel’s fault. In the Foreword to The Prehistory of The Far Side Larson states that The Far Side began on January 1, 1980.Larson corrected that in The Complete Far Side: But Andrews McMeel complicates matters by starting the running of The Far Side in The Complete Far Side […]
For the second week in a row McDonnell has treated us to a new MUTTS, and for the second Friday in a row it is an illustrated proverb by Daniel Ladinsky. I don’t know if these are new or from the book collaboration Ladinsky and McDonnell did several years ago. I also don’t know if […]
It is Gary Larson’s birthday and though it is not a particularly noteworthy age (76) it is being celebrated.The Daily Cartoonist wishes Larson a Happy Birthday on Facebook and Bluesky. Reuben Award-winning Mark Tatulli paid tribute to Reuben Award-winning Larson in today’s Liō. Larson and The Far Side is a frequent topic of the blogiverse. […]
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 […]
I suppose if you’re going to mock the word “stochastic,” you shouldn’t use a relevant cartoon to open the discussion. I finally looked it up because everyone has been writing about stochastic terrorism and stochastic this or that. It just means random, which is awfully close to not meaning anything, or at least, it’s close […]
With Cathy by Cathy Guisewite; a Dick Tracy Halloween and cosplay; the quasquicentennial anniversary of The Weatherbird; a peek at the future of funnies and coming cartoonists; Dean Haspiel’s Comix Block comic strip section; and a brand new Gary Larson The Far Side paying tribute to Jane Goodall!“It was born out of that confusion” Timed […]
From the Jane Goodall Institute: Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace and world-renowned ethologist, conservationist, and humanitarian, has died at the age of 91 of natural causes. Dr. Jane was known around the world for her 65-year study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania. However, in the […]
About one of the most famous and confusing The Far Side panels by Gary Larson.From Keegan Kelly at Cracked: We finally understand the single most confounding Far Side panel that Gary Larson ever put to paper. “Cow Tools” wasn’t a punchline – it was a prediction. So what we all took to be a pitchfork or a […]
Midweek Olivia Jaimes began what a series of Nancy strips riffing on her profession. While Richard Thompson in the throwback Cul de Sac show us how those unorganized underground cartoonists probably created those jam comix. Previewing next week’s Reuben Awards yesterday we had Intelligent Life, Macanudo, and Thatababy celebrating recognizable comic strips of the past […]
The folks at the San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) have released the souvenir book of the event and as has been their habit for the past several years they have kindly made it available to all by way of a free pdf issue.As seen it cover features the 75th anniversary of the Peanuts gang with Charles […]
Joann Mackenzie for the Gloucester Daily Times talks to local cartoonist Mark Parisi (or here), nominated for the National Cartoonists Society’s 2024 Cartoonist of the Year aka The Reuben Award. Now in its 38th year and distributed daily by United Press Syndicate [sic] to some 100 newspapers, “Off The Mark” [link added] has been described […]
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 […]
Gary Larson, The Far Side, and a murder mystery; Milton Caniff’s first Steve Canyon Sunday page deconstructed panel by panel; Jim Keefe goes back to The Joe Kubert School; Peanuts and Ford (but not the Falcon); a new Hogan’s Alley magazine on the horizon.Gary Larson’s legendary Far Side cartoon contains a perfect conceit for a […]