Comic Strips 2025 – Week One
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I liked Shoe‘s rephrasing of the various end of year holiday greetings that had just past.
And, naturally, it is always a pleasure to see David Reddick use his pen (stylus?) to delineate other comic characters than his regular cast. More fabulous comic strip females in today’s Legend of Bill.
Rina and Hilary gave me the laugh of the week with Saturday’s Rhymes With Orange.
(I thought Saturdays were where the “weakest” gags were placed.)
Is it strange that every time I see a pipe in a cartoon I immediately think of Bizarro? That’s what happened when I read the above Loose Parts. Even with a Calabash pipe, it is not Sherlock Holmes I think of but Bizarro. I blame Wayno.
The January 4th Non Sequitur got me wondering about Wiley’s lead time coming a month after the NYC shooting of the HealthCare CEO. And whether there was any discussion at the syndicate on if it should be pulled for later publication, or if it had been in the pipeline so long everyone had forgotten about it.
If I had been on my toes I would have posted the above frame from Wizard of Id to The Daily Cartoonist’s Facebook page as “Comic Panel of the Day.” Yeah, I like it that much.
Also enjoyed the Frank and Ernest Sunday page art, first saw it in my local paper’s Saturday Weekend edition. “All this work” is maybe what the cartoonist thought when faced with drawing it. The gag is good too.
Sunday Synchronicity
Off The Mark and Heart of the City broke out with similar gags, though Steenz spelled it out.
A new myth! Will Henry uses his Sunday Wallace the Brave to postulate a new creation of the the moon hypothesis, which is just as likely as those Ancient Astronaut Theorists’ belief that it is an alien built spy station. Above is the title panel for the Sunday strip, cribbed from the Wallace the Brave Facebook page. Provided because GoComics refuses to give us those title panels.
Here’s the Sally Forth Sunday page for January 5th with all the words for panel six that Francesco Marciuliano originally had in his script.
Jim Keefe explains that he forgot a word balloon that should have appeared in Sunday’s Sally Forth.
Randy Milholland, a student of Popeye history and the Popeye Sunday cartoonist, takes on a public domain aspect of modern “creators.”
I could link to Liniers’ Macanudo almost every day it is so good. Today’s is a sad commentary.
For those who didn’t notice, and I was one of them, Nancy Beiman included a tribute to Richard Thompson and his Cul de Sac comic strip in Sunday’s FurBabies. The Cul de Sac blog has the story.
Ending with a bit of news.
A year after we noted (scroll to near bottom) Harris Fishman’s Beetle Moses comic arrival at Comics Kingdom it has been dropped from the site. Cartoonist Harris Fishman can be tracked at his Patreon site.
feature image from FurBabies (which has a fart joke today to accompany yesterday’s Parisi and Steenz)
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