100 years ago this year. Covington native Robert Franc Schulkers published the first adventure of the “Fair & Square Boys Club”– as told by Gregory Hawkins, the club “seckatary” – on Feb. 3, 1918, in the Enquirer. At the height of its popularity, the newspaper serial and comic strip reached 10 million households and spawned […]
Sally From Peanuts Made Me a Better Teacher Sally, the younger sister of Peanuts’ Charlie Brown, did not perform well in school. She wrote reports the morning they were due. She failed multiple exams. As an overachieving child, I attributed her poor performance to laziness. But now that I’m an educator, I understand where she […]
Earlier today one of the points of Mike’s column was the casual portrayal of same sex partnerships in the Bliss panel. Commenters at the GoComics page also noticed. I tried to pass on commenting, but can’t resist. As mentioned in the Bliss comments Bud Fisher‘s Mutt and Jeff have been doing the same bed thing […]
What is today’s Arlo and Janis? Is it an homage? An encomium? Or perhaps a panegyric to Ernie Bushmiller’s 1969 (below) Labor Day Comic. Whatever you may call it, Jimmy Johnson has done it and now it belongs to the world. www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis Interesting to note, that new Nancy creator Olivia Jaimes has also turned in […]
I don’t think you could have a better Labor Day commentary than this Clay Bennett cartoon. It could have run just about any time in the past year and a half, because Trump repeatedly takes credit for things that haven’t happened or that he had nothing to do with. But Trump has been particularly vocal […]