So GoComics seemingly has set up someone to make sure that the Sunday strips now have the black plate included after weeks of that being a problem on a few strips every Sunday. This week only Rose is Rose got through, but they fixed it very quickly so only Arcamax was caught blackless: But there […]
Basil and Monte Wolverton; Flash Gordon by Alex, Jim, Dan, and a bunch of others; public domain Popeye and Olive; a hint of next winter’s Doonesbury special art; plus actual comic strips and panels from this week. Let’s start with the news for the indexers. This week sees the King Features Weekly Service dropping Dan […]
A new Sunday story in The Phantom means a new title panel by Sunday artist Jeff Weigel. A big, wonderful Prince Valiant panel by Thomas Yeates as Val and company begin their own new adventure. Current Popeye cartoonist Randy Milholland has some fun with the present status of the comic strip of new Sundays and […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Barnaby Volume Five by Crockett Johnson and Jack Morley Volume Five collects the final two-plus […]
The first and last weeks of Ted Shearer’s Quincy, the first Happy Hooligan strip, the death of Alex Raymond, a brief history of American newspaper comic strips by Jules Feiffer, Stefan Kanter, Arthur Asa Berger, Kurt Vonnegut, Roz Chast, and others, remembering Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds’ Tank McNamara of a half century ago, and […]