In Spite of What You Read Gasoline Alley, Mary Worth, and The Phantom Continue
San Marcos Daily Record columnist Jerry Hall opens his Sunday column about Peanuts reminiscing: Let us depart from topics of…
Comic strips
Continue reading
No More Spectickles (Belated Notice)
Bill Abbott is no longer creating new Spectickles panels for syndication. The last new panel was issued on December 16,…
The Resurrection of The Bad Cartoonist?
It seems The Bad Cartoonist has resurfaced. Who? You might ask. For those who weren’t around then, and for those…
CSotD: Graduation Day in the Committee Room
The second Saturday in May would be graduation on a lot of campuses, and it probably still is, since the…
CSotD: Timing, repetition, redemption, etc.
Barbara Smaller’s cartoon is hardly breakthrough humor, subconsciously echoing as it does a Tom Toro piece that has become a…
Of Comic Strips, Garfield and Mike Peterson
Garfield, FurBabies, Calvin and Hobbes, Bliss/Not Bliss/Bob Mankoff Presents, The K Chronicles, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Popeye, caption contests, and…
More Past Week Comics This Week
Before we get too far away some more comments on yesterday’s and last week’s comics. It didn’t take long for…
CSotD: Love in perspective, love of perspective
I don’t know how much lead time Jimmy Craig takes for They Can Talk. I guess it’s up to him,…
25 Years of National Cartoonists Days
It’s the Silver Anniversary of National Cartoonists Day! As News18 tells it: During World War II in 1943, cartoonists including…
Books, Comic and Otherwise – Mostly Comic
Mad Cave has signed a deal with King Features to publish new comic book stories starring Flash Gordon. The partnership…
CSotD: Marooned on an Accessible Island
Ivan Ehlers captures my mood as I watch the nation’s dialogue degenerate into what seems like a contest to see…
Broom-Hilda, Dick Tracy, and Pluggers Now at Comics Kingdom; New Mutts Coming Up
Comics Kingdom is now running three Tribune Content Agency (TCA) comics on its website. From the Comics Kingdom blog: We’re…
Miss Cellany Visits Some Friends
Charles Brubaker, Mike Thompson, Jackie Ormes, Farrah Rodriguez, Liana Finck, Olly Duke, Walt Handelsman, and John Reiner. Charles Brubaker got…
Dan Schkade Discusses Flash Gordon
Pencil to Pencil hosted a set with new Flash Gordon comic strip cartoonist Dan Schkade. As seen on the screen…
Wayback Whensday: Steve Canyon Extras
To paraphrase Eric Burdon: When I was young it was more important to get my comics as a half page….