Comic Strip Quickies
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Saturday’s Alley Oop held out the promise of an actual adventure.
Monday’s Alley Oop hasn’t disabused me of that hope. We’ll see.
I could very well be wrong, it wouldn’t be a first, but I think last week was the first full week of Slylock Fox dailies that had Scott Underwood co-signing with Bob Weber, Jr. on every comic
Speaking of co-signers … Steve Martin returned to Bliss Saturday after a nearly two month absence.
Still obsessing with signatures…
Roy Crane‘s signature has disappeared from the Vintage Buz Sawyer strips at Comics Kingdom. In real time the signature was gone since the August 8, 1949 strip and will return with the September 19, 1949 issue. I would like to say that Roy was embarrassed by the silly monkey story and so turned it over to his assistant Hank Schlensker, but Crane continued signing the Sunday page “featuring his pal Roscoe Sweeney” which I always found just as shallow.
(By the way, with that mark on his cheek can we expect Buz to show up in the current daily Phantom story?)
Okay, so maybe I was a little harsh with Buz – I always preferred Crane’s Captain Easy – but not as hard as Bill Hinds was with the basketball star in Saturday’s Tank McNamara.
Or am I misreading Bill’s intent?
Vic Lee got my vote for Funniest with today’s Pardon My Planet.
Liniers gets my vote for Most Likely to Incur Letters to the Editor for today’s Macanudo.
And June Brigman gets my vote just for presenting to us a wonderful portrait panel of Dawn and Cathy in today’s Mary Worth. I just really like June’s comic strip portrayal of two human faces. So much that I set it up as the feature image for this post.
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