“An Easter Egg is a term used to describe a hidden detail …” Today’s Sally Forth has an obvious homage to The Killing Joke comic book. © King Features Syndicate © DC Comics But as Francesco Marciuliano points out Jim Keefe goes far beyond that one panel. Terry Beatty hid an easter egg in […]
Those Disney and Newspaper Enterprise Association Christmas strips get all the fame and glory, while the Easter strips get forgotten. But there were special daily comic strips created for the weeks leading up to Easter. For a short while in the 1950s they were an annual tradition for NEA and the cartoonist was the same […]
Morten Morland offers an Easter-themed bit of Moskva Mockery. Most of today’s Easter cartoons, as with most mandatory holiday cartoons, seem unremarkable, though his detailed style adds some interest here. It’s not Beatrix Potter’s watercolors; more like Uncle Wiggly, but it echoes traditional gentle bunny depiction, with the addition of a sly expression that couldn’t […]