The AV Club takes a look at 15 comic strips/panels that made the leap to animation. List includes The Far Side, Garfield, Wizard of Id, Doonesbury, Blondie, Pogo, For Better or For Worse, Cathy, Marvin, Lil’ Abner, The Smurfs, Hagar the Horrible, The Phantom, Miss Peach Of The Kelly School and Peanuts. They’ve posted video […]
Arlo and Janis creator Jimmy Johnson has a new book collection out (Beaucoup Arlo & Janis). His ex-wife Rheta Grimsley Johnson writes glowingly about the strip and her former husband. If my youthful insecurities and jealousies during our life together helped inspire a single idea, I’m proud to have been of service. Jimmy, like most […]
Today.com has profiled Gil creator Norm Feuti about the launch of his new feature and how it compares to other family strips. The cartoonist finds it a bit surprising that it’s taken newspaper comics so many years to deal with divorce head-on. “It’s sort of an odd thing where we’re afraid to show real life,” […]