They say there’s nothing new under the sun or on the comics page. But … How Tim Rickard has a couple characters talking over each other in Brewster Rockit is new to me. Not quite as ingenious, but along the same lines is today’s Tarzan. Well, not really along the lines. As noted in the […]
The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip went into rerun status four years and seven months ago with the promise of a new rebooted Spider-Man comic strip forthcoming. That never happened, and now King Features Syndicate and Marvel Comics have ended the newspaper distribution of The Amazing Spider-Man reruns with the Saturday October 21, 2023 issue. Early […]
Following 9/11, I used this Peter Schrank cartoon in my school presentations. It’s brilliant not simply because the world was, indeed, traumatized by the event, but because he melded both that horror-stricken face and Munch’s original drawing of the bridge with the image of people fleeing down the street from the collapsing buildings. And it […]