The news of a new collection of Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies comic strip, which ran in The Village Voice from 1974 to 1995, sent me to the archives to find the first and last of the comic strip that for 20 years portrayed New York City life using quotes heard that both the cartoonist […]
Cartoonist and biographer Bill Griffith has an obsession with Ernie Bushmiller and Nancy and Sluggo. In the past seventeen strips that trio, or some combination of them, have been mentioned in four of his Zippy the Pinhead comics, including today’s. So fans of Griffith, Bushmiller, and comics looked forward to the release of his graphic […]
Today will be a combination of the absurd and the frightening, so we’ll start somewhere in the middle with Graeme MacKay’s commentary on the price of Christmas trees. The scout troop in our town square is selling them for $65, about the same price as the local co-op, but I haven’t checked prices elsewhere because, […]
More missing Vintage Judge Parker (KFS) strips, and this week’s content glitch includes a pretty significant plot development.