This Week in Comic Stripping
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Breaking Cat People News
Taking a break from breaking cat news is Breaking Cat News getting into breaking people news this week. People news involves those in control of our lives and governments, and Georgia Dunn goes there:
Georgia leads off the comments by telling her readers why:
For folks not loving a strip touching on the real world—I’m here in the comments VERY early to promise: This is the one and only strip attempting to explain our news cycle through the cats’ eyes. I had to give –some context for the rest of the strips this week to mean anything, without spinning out into full-on actual People-politics.
I tried to keep it as funny as possible given the incredibly grim subject matter, and I stuck to folks outside of the three branches of our political system.
The tech billionaires are not part of our government.
There have been no elections for the tech billionaires. They just seem to be there…
Nearly 200 responses to her statement, one of which from the cartoonist promises even more fireworks:
I’ve been working on a week of strips sharing family recipes all week, and the contrast today is sharp to say the least. “Things are really gonna get wild when this meatloaf recipe drops, dang…”
Onward
I don’t know where Walt Wallet and Mutt and Jeff are going – supposedly to the Old Comics Home – but I want to give a thumbs up to Jim Scancarelli for the scenery getting to the destination from Gasoline Alley.
The winter trees are outstanding!
We’ve seen Wanda and Darryl kiss before
But Monday’s kiss was strange. Where is Darryl’s nose going. Have their lips been fused together?
Bottom Liners by Eric and Bill Teitelbaum
I’ve noted the rightward lean of The Brothers Teitlebaum, but Wednesday Bottom Liners went full out MAGA.
It is not news that Lola and Eno are neighbors.
But as seen in this week’s Lola, Todd Clark has to update his Fang model sheet.
To be fair Todd probably drew this before Glenn returned with the new version of The Duplex.
I confess I would not be disappointed if Harry Bliss paid homage to Edward Gorey on a monthly basis during this Gorey Centennial year. He did January and now February. Will it continue?
By the way, at The Comics Journal this past week was dedicated to Edward Gorey. With:
My family’s curious correspondence with Edward Gorey;
Edward Gorey is My Blood Type: an appreciation for the artist who made us goth;
plus reviews of The Gashlycrumb Tinies; The Utter Zoo; and the newly released
The Beginning of The Garfield Era
The early 1980s saw Garfield begin his rise to top the comic strip circulation heap.
In the 1981 edition of my series The 300, I mentioned that the publication of Jim Davis’ first Garfield book (Garfield at Large) was a pivotal moment in the ascendancy of the strip. Let’s dive a little deeper and look at the details of the strip’s conquering of the comics page.
Jeffrey Lindenblatt, at the Stripper’s Guide, details how it was achieved.
The Circle of Life is A Circus
As long as we are going into the fairly distant past…
It was 65 years ago not-quite-today and not-quite-tomorrow when a new comic panel first appeared.
65 years ago tomorrow – well, not really tomorrow because 1960 was a leap year – “The Family Circle” by Bil Keane debuted on February 29, 1960.
It would be renamed “The Family Circus” on August 3, 1960 (a Wednesday) in the syndicate’s home paper, The Des Moines Register, to avoid legal problems with the Family Circle magazine.
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