Sunday Comics on Parade
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Some quick hits about strips in today’s colored comics supplement.
My mornings:
It’s a vicious circle as previewed in Garfield‘s title panel with the results in Take It From the Tinkersons.
“Leaving on a jet plane”
“Don’t know when I’ll be back again”
Some synchronicity between Judge Parker and Willy Black today.
More Marciuliano…
I know inventions by way of Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg and Al Jaffee – not Wallace and Gromit.
As is his wont cartoonist Jim Keefe gives us background on today’s Sally Forth, including the W&G scene.
Jeez Bianca (one of Six Chix) it’s called the FUNNY papers not the melancholy pages.
Though action and adventure is encouraged…
… as The Saga of Brann Bjornson continues the battle against Ragnarok and a sea battle commences in Prince Valiant.
Big Nate explains Peanuts to Peter then goes all meta without realizing it (though Peter does).
Meanwhile Marmaduke proves Peter’s hypothesis wrong:
So many panels, so many giggles.
Samson outdoes himself with the number of gags in today’s Dark Side of the Horse!
Drop panels vs. A&B panels.
For the second week in a row the John Hart Studio (B.C. and Wizard of Id) has referred to the two top tier panels as “an A & B panel.” I can’t remember ever hearing them called that before. I was raised calling them “drop panels” as they were often not part of what made it into the Sunday Funnies section. Is “an A & B panel” common usage?
As it happened I was in a local(ish) Barnes and Noble Friday and for some reason decided to check out their Vonnegut selection and was terribly disappointed. They only had five titles (and only one of each title) of the 5″x 8″ paperback editions on their shelf. I have three times that on my bookshelf at home.
Though I haven’t reread them in years (decades). Jef expands his thoughts on the Sunday Frazz at his Facebook page about rereading and about the title panel.
It’s the reader’s conundrum, or at least mine: Great books, and even merely good ones, are better the second time through. But the time you spend reading or re-reading any book is time you could spend reading a different book…
More classic fiction:
Amy Kurzweil recalls Electric Grandma from (spoilers:) Ray Bradbury’s I Sing the Body Electric short story.
CIDU
Joseph Nebus is flummoxed by Friday’s Compu-Toon and I have to admit it is a Comic I Don’t Understand.
… And then came this Compu-Toon comic to sit on my head, and the head of everyone I’ve shown it to. Ready to try it yourself? I can’t tell…
A couple news items before signing off.
Two years ago Maria Scrivan ended the newspaper syndication of her Half Full comic panel to concentrate on her book career. Half Full continued as a thrice weekly webcomic. Before long it turned into a combination of new material and reruns. Of late the reruns have been the vast majority of the content. Now Maria has decided to let the Half Full archives speak for themselves.
Afaik Arcamax was the only place to find the Rudy Park reruns. That seems to have ended on May 31, 2025.
Future Funnies – Spoilers
Coming up is Andy Capp actually seeking employment!
feature image of United Feature Syndicate comic book via Grand Comics Database
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