Miss Cellany Talkin’ ‘Bout This an’ That

Here’s an oddity:

Some comic strip ephemera.

MIke Lynch posts a circa 1973 Courier Journal/Louisville Times comic strip promotional pamphlet featuring comic strips with creator profiles. Ten of the seventeen comics are still around today, though the cartoonists aren’t.

Nancy is lit!

I have dedicated more than a year to covering city news at the Herald-Zeitung, but during my tenure I’ve also been an ardent reader of the newspaper’s comic section.

More cut-out comic strips adorn my cubicle’s wall than my own stories, and the added pages of comics in the paper, both black-and-white and color, make my weekend extra special.

As a lover of comics, I must rise to defend Nancy.

Past accusations of inadequacy have been hurled toward the lovable scamp and I’ve decided it’s time to step in and set the record straight.

Hannah Thompson at The Herald-Zeitung “defends” the current Nancy against her detractors.

Nancy is lit.

To some, probably many, this Nancy reference may fly over their heads — and that might be the root of the cartoon schism some of the paper’s comic readers have faced.

When looking at [Olivia] Jaimes’ work, it is apparent that she is more aware of the newer generation of comic readers — and leans into it.

10 Underrated Comic Strips Every Newspaper Should Carry

Everyone knows the classic, iconic Sunday comic strips. Big comic strip names like Peanuts and Garfield are often talked about and loved by many.

However, fans often forget about the underrated comic strip series that paved the way for comic strip artists everywhere. Whether it be from blunt humor or hilarious, raunchy characters, many comic strip series out there don’t always get the recognition they deserve.

Morgan Brady for Comic Book Resources list 10 comics every newspaper should carry.

You know I have problems with these lists – I would argue that For Better or For Worse and Zits are hardly underrated; that two, including the #1, are in eternal rerun status; two others are long gone and haven’t been available to newspapers for years; and another one is just flat-out wrong.

Do You Speak Comics? Part 2: Balloons and Bubbles

While there are many wordless comics out there, the magic of comics so often comes from the juxtaposition of text and image.

King Features editor Tea Fougner returns with another Do You Speak Comics? installment.

Peter Arno in College Humor

The math is straightforward. Each issue of College Humor magazine that included cartoonist Peter Arno’s work, circa 1936-1937, contained three cartoons in a popular, I assume, feature called “Side-Show.” Of the Arno originals that were either purchased by or consigned to the Nicholls Gallery in 1985, I have yet to account for nine of them in any of the various copies of the magazine I’ve either collected or else examined at Columbia University. This means I still need to acquire, or examine, at least three more issues to document their content and check it agains the remaining cartoons in the Nicholls consignment. See, it’s simple.

Stephen Nadler is collecting old College Humor magazines to index their run of Peter Arno’s Side-Show cartoons.

Michael Maslin who has an interest in The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist.