A Little Seltzer Down Your Pants (Comic Strips)
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Featuring Shoe, Broom-Hilda, Bizarro The New Yorker, Creature Features, The Phantom, Arlo and Janis, Olive and Popeye and Thimble Theater.
I began my comic strip reading with the Comics Kingdom feed today and Shoe was one of the first ones to make an impression. The psychiatrist was good, but the sofa and the Perfessor lounging across it struck me as a great bit of cartooning by Ben Lansing. I had then decided that that issue was, to borrow a phrase, The Comic Strip of the Day.
Unfortunately, and I apologize for this Ben, I soon came across today’s Broom-Hilda.
I was blown away by Russell Myers palindromic layout. WIth Broom-Hilda and Irwin trading positions around the center portrait, the trees and flowers serving as bookends. The word balloons floating along the entire top of the strip with tree leaves dangling below them and the black ground opposite the bubbles. Well done Russell, very well done!
Yesterday I declared Bizarro by Wayno Comic Panel of the Day for his tribute to other cartoonists.
Update: Wayno supplies a biblio Catalog for the Little Library at his weekly Substack newsletter.
On the subject of paying tribute…
[Ellis Rosen:] Very late #nyercartooncovers , where we are assigned a cartoonist to riff from, and I was extraordinarily lucky to get a cartoon hero of mine, @joedator ! See mine on the first slide and his original on the second, one of the funniest cartoons I’ve come across.
There is a page of Facebook – #nyercartoon covers – where cartoonists redraw a favorite cartoon of theirs originally drawn by a different New Yorker cartoonist.
Never Was Comics – Creature Features by JC Duffy
In 2011 I worked up a comic strip proposal called CREATURE FEATURES, which failed to get a syndication deal. In a nutshell, the premise was animals delivering authentic quotes from old movies.
At his Substack Lightning JC (The Fusco Brothers) Duffy shares five weeks of an unsold comic prosposal.
Phantom-wise, Mike Manley and I are finishing up a universe-tending story on the daily side. We’re catching up with what’s been happening with a host of characters who are not the Phantom.
In the Sunday narrative, Jeff Weigel has been filing superb art on The Ungraved, a story in the fantasy tradition Lee Falk would delve into from time to time. Keep your willing suspension of disbelief handy.
A couple of tribal kids wander into a jungle where time anomalies have been known to happen…
Tony DePaul talks about the current stories in The Phantom after motorcycles and before Pope Leo.
A BIG tip of the hat and no hard feelings to my former classmate, the new pope. Bob the pope. He goes by Leo XIV now that he’s got the job. We graduated Villanova the same year, which is why the race for pope, in its final hours, was pretty much down to me and Bob.
I knew I was out of the running when they asked me what I would adopt as the motto of my pontificate, and all I could think to say was, malo motorcycle mea vehi de Deo cogitans quam in ecclesia sedere de motorcycle mea cogitans.
Good Timing
Jimmy Johnson had good timing yesterday with his Arlo and Janis, what with the Trump TACO news.
Also yesterday Popeye cartoonist and historian Randy Milholland referenced an old Thimble Theater by EC Segar from November 17, 1937 in his Olive and Popeye installment.
Since the Comics Kingdom archives apparently doesn’t include that particular strip…
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