King Features Syndicate has cancelled a few comics features. Henry and Hazel has already been noted here and here. Also announced is the end of Happy Musings by Sally Huss. Happy Musings is an illustrated panel featuring a pithy maxim. Created by artist and author Sally Huss it debuted as a six-day-a-week feature from King […]
King has also alerted clients that Henry will also be ending its run in syndication. King points out in its notice that Henry had been in reruns. Henry started with King in 1934. Henry’s last Sunday in syndication will be October 28th and its last daily on Saturday, October 27th. From the King Features site: […]
This week’s daily BC comics are promoting the LUMA Projection Arts Festival in the Mastroiannis’ hometown of Binghamton, N.Y. From Mason Mastroianni’s Facebook page: Tomorrow, a special event week of BC Comic Strip will begin in newspapers across the world. From Monday through Saturday, We will be celebrating LUMA Projection Arts Festival, and it’s impact on community arts in […]
Sources reporting that King Features will end the Hazel comic panel. The last daily will be September 29th. From the King site: The name Hazel has become synonymous with a live-in maid who is more to her “family” than a housekeeper. This lovable character was created by Ted Key in 1943 and began appearing in the Saturday […]
The September 3rd Nancy featured a couple of panels with the dialogue “Sluggo is Lit.” The Twitter-verse grabbed a hold of the phrase and turned it into a meme under the hashtag #sluggoislit. In the wake of Twitter’s response, Comicbook.com has listed the Top 10 “Sluggo is Lit” mashups. And the internet comic mercandise and apparel […]
Dogs of C Kennel raises several existential questions, though it doesn’t actually touch on the question of when “existential” became a thing. All of a sudden, I’m seeing all sorts of people cite such-and-such as an existential threat to their existence, which reminds me of when the Watergate hearings got everyone saying “at that point […]