Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide Has Moved

The premiere online destination for aficionados of American newspaper comic strip history has a new home:

Hi and welcome to the new home of Stripper’s Guide, here at ComicStripHistory.com. Don’t forget to bookmark it! All new posts will appear here, not at the old Blogger site (that is, assuming no horrible bugs are found in the new interface that force a retreat).

But we can’t call it “all new,” as Allan tells us:

The new Stripper’s Guide has all nineteen years of the blog’s history [emphasis added], and here it can be searched more effectively using the search box to the right. All of your valuable comments have been transferred here as well. So please try out the new Search, and perhaps revisit a few mouldy oldie posts — no matter how good your memory, I guarantee you’ll find stuff you don’t remember. Oh, you’d like a suggestion or two? How about reading the wonderful Adam Chase sci-fi series, or Walt McDougall’s seminal autobiography This Is The Life, or perusing Jim Ivey’s photo album posts?

And Allan is offering a comics quiz of a sort with the new home:

By the way, how do you like the funky logo atop the site? Every time you arrive you will be greeted by one of ten different logos, each featuring different newspaper comics characters. If you can name all forty of those characters, consider yourself the winner of the title Greatest Newspaper Comics Nerd in the Galaxy. There’s some toughies!

We’ve provided a few of the images with this post.

Allan also teases us with future plans for the site, not the least of which is…

… exciting new features will be in the works. The colossal project American Newspaper Comics Wiki is my prime target, but feel free to suggest things you’d like to see. I’m excited to be on a platform that allows all sorts of new content, rather than chafing under the strictures of a Blogger blogsite.

Putting the indispensable reference source American Newspaper Comics online will be a godsend.

For those without the book on their reference shelf it has The Daily Cartoonist’s highest recommendation. Yes, it is expensive and well worth it. As mentioned above it is indispensable. (And the bookbinding is as able-bodied as the research – a dozen years of abuse by this writer barely shows any wear, and no tears.)

Back to the purpose of this post – go check out the new and improved and really good looking Stripper’s Guide!