A Sunday Funny Supplemental (Banned in Boston?)
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Mrs. Olsen is a lot more understanding than a lot of commenters on GoComics and Comics Kingdom who seem to be in a constant state of aggravation over a lot of comic strip characters.
Some more than others:
Comic strips are visual first script second and when Mallard Fillmore came up my first reaction was “New cartoonist!” Turns out the art change was part of the joke explained in the dialogue.
Two things – I like that last speech balloon arrow going the wrong way, and is this one of the twice monthly digs at the Trump grift?
Leading into a series of comic strips created by Queen Victoria disrespecting some current newspaper comics New Adventures starts off the sequence with a couple strips showing contempt for a cartoonist who also spent his latter years antagonizing a number of people on and off the comics pages.
Though Pab putting Queen Victoria on the same level of success as Dilbert takes some exaggeration.
When I saw Doonesbury on Mike Peterson’s Comic Strip of the Day I thought sure he would juxtapose it with Pluggers. Since he didn’t…
I also grew up in a small town surrounded by orchards and fields and ditches with a nearby river. It was a calmer,seemingly less dangerous time and we were free to roam. That was then. Just today I dropped my granddaughter off for a school trip, on the way I stopped to get something to eat and locked her in the pickup because, well, because better safe than sorry.
Part of that free range life was >gently< opening up the beehives in the almond and walnut orchards and eating fresh honey. Yeah it was stealing, but so was eating the nuts and grapes and watermelons while swimming in the ditches that irrigated all that food. We were kids in the land of plenty. Now I rage against people that stop along the roads to fill their bags with the farmers’ food instead of going to the fruit stands.
Some miscellanea:
Another new-to-me word that is now appropriate for newspaper comics pages.
“You make the rockin’ world go ’round.”
Dumplings was a wonderful change of pace after reading all those sweet Mother’s Day strips.
A break? A hiatus? An ending?
For the second Sunday in a row Shrimp & Grits is a rerun. The dailies have been in rerun status since November 23, 2023, with the Sundays remaining fresh – well, except for the February 1 – 15, 2026 Sundays three months ago.. I’m not ready to call it the end – yet.
Also we have it on good authority (Hi, Tanner) that The Sunday Boston Globe has missed including The Sunday Funnies this weekend and last weekend. Whether it was the entire run of press or selected distribution areas is not known. Anyone else from the area miss their Sunday comics supplement?
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