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We’re jumping all over the comics pages.

Thank you Lawrence Goldsmith and Sean Garnett!

Anything that puts that earworm in my head is a good thing. The Sunday Andy Capp is a good thing.

Too soon?

Leigh Rubin uses a serial killer to make a gag in Rubes.

Jesus Christ!

Yeah, Mike Lester is gonna get letters about today’s Mike du Jour (already in the GoComics comments).

He’s Back.

We noted Glenn McCoy‘s return to the daily comic strip a few weeks ago, now we welcome Glenn back to The Duplex Sunday page. No disrespect to brother Gary McCoy but I’m enjoying the new style.

He’s Gone.

The no longer available daily Candorville comic strip was replaced on the Stars and Stripes comics page by … some space between the strips.

May be gone soon?

Dan Collins is deciding whether to continue his GoComics strip or end creating new Looks Good on Paper for basically free. (Yeah, once more: comics are all over the internet but the vast majority don’t pay for beans, much less rent.) Here’s Dan’s Substack in you are inclined to support him.

Back Where We Started

We also noted the other day that Tony DePaul and Mike Manley were going to revisit and revise The Origin of The Phantom, that starts today. It will be running as The Phantom’s 89th anniversary comes next month. But the first adventure wasn’t the origin story – you can read the first story, The Singh Brotherhood, beginning with the first strip of February 17, 1936 here.

Here We Go Round Again.

I don’t know if these Lay Lines from the past two weeks are original previews of Carol Lay‘s forthcoming Murderburg book or if they are excerpts. Or if we will get six of them for the six stories in Murderburg.

It is a good way to promo the cartoonist’s book. Here’s a preview.

Complaint Dept.

I like that Alley Oop and Ooola and Wonmug are on an adventure. I don’t like the incremental story advances between setups for daily gags. And how come Ernie is missing so often? It’s called Frank AND Ernest.

Cheers Dept.

Hat tip to John Deering for a wonderful Castle Frankenstein in Strange Brew!

feature Chaos image from Scott Stantis’ Prickly City

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Comments 7

  1. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a house ad in place of Mike du Jour today. That’s not one I read but the block of solid color got my attention.

    1. Jesus, the barista has been in Mike du Jour for years. And will be for the next five days. -ML

      1. I think the opening exclamation, not the character, was the reason Mike du Jour went missing in Atlanta yesterday.

  2. I wish Stars and Stripes filled the Candorville loss with another KFS owned strip.

    1. Why should they replace it with another strip from King? A good editor should replace a strip they’ve dropped with what they think is the best strip available for their paper.

  3. As a musician/singer-songwriter, I feel Dan Collins’s pain. A friend of mine who performs covers said all the good songs were already written, and any new ones are… well, he opined, there aren’t any good new ones. With that logic and the past’s habit of repeating, maybe all the cartoons we need are drawn? Not true, but in the me of online availability, it’s hard to find. Now where my Beatles playlist?

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