Socialists Charles Schulz and Al Vermeer, Walt Kelly and Jim Henson – Pogo and Muppets, Al Brodax animates The Beatles for TV, Wild Takes Animated by Tex Avery and others, and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – the comic strip. Peanuts, Priscilla’s Pop Push Progressivist Propaganda Nat Gertler stumbled upon a 1963 syndicated column by […]
Piggybacking on Mike’s kinda “nothing new under the sun” post – we present the synchronicity of today’s Dustin and Flo & Friends. Here’s something new – Bunny Hoest and John Reiner have changed the layout of The Lockhorns Sundays. For over fifty years The Sunday Lockhorns have been one large panel and four smaller panels: […]
I pondered using Joe Dator’s cartoon because I’ve seen similar gags before, but then realized (A) there aren’t many absolutely brand-new gags, but a good cartoonist can make them fresh and (B) there are things that can’t be said too often. (A) is covered in Russian literary criticism, where they have an expression “making new,” […]
In today’s Barney Google and Snuffy Smith John Rose celebrates the 90th anniversary of Snuffy Smith. Snuffy and “Lowizie” Smith first appeared in the Barney Google comic strip on November 17, 1934, but Snuffy was mentioned a couple days earlier. Since Comics Kingdom’s archive of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith only goes back to 1936 […]