James Allen‘s last Mark Trail daily comic strip was Saturday, July 25, 2020: Monday, July 27, 2020 began a different story, as a years old Jack Elrod story began running. This reminds me of when Mandrake the Magician stopped mid-story in 2013 when Fred Fredericks abruptly retired due to ill health. And like Mandrake, which […]
After Mike’s remarkable appreciation of Stone Soup there’s not much left to say but the basics. Jan Eliot is not her birth name nor a name she married into. It is her pen(and ink)name:: That’s also when she became Jan Eliot. Name inspired by author Her surname at birth had been Buell, and her married […]
A quiet end to a great comic strip, and if the last episode of Stone Soup reminds you of Calvin and Hobbes heading out for new adventures, that’s not entirely inappropriate: Jan Eliot got her break in the business — after four years of pestering the syndicates with submissions — when Bill Watterson hung up […]