Doing comic strips about the end of the school year — or the beginning, for that matter — is tricky because of how widely school calendars vary, state to state. But, this being the week after Memorial Day, there are a flood of summer vacation strips and this Non Sequitur (AMS) — a rerun, but […]
Lincoln Peirce offered a bit of critical commentary in Big Nate (AMS) yesterday. It’s no secret that a lot of comic strips have outlived their creators, but, when a cartoonist gives up a strip, what happens next varies. If a strip is not in a lot of papers, the syndicate may shut it down, but […]
If Australia were not on the other side of the globe, this would be the first day of Autumn there. As it is, it’s the first day of Spring and their first day of Autumn will be March 1. Point being that, while I’m all in favor of knowing about the equinoces (well, it should […]
I hesitate to ignore the Biden Huggy cartoons lest they start to pile up and block the exits, but it is Friday and so let’s have some funnies instead. Over at Zits, Jeremy and Pierce discovered, to their mutual embarrassment, that they both enjoy reading kids books. I thought the punchline on this particular strip […]
Lincoln Peirce, the cartoonist behind Big Nate, recently sat on a panel at the Maine Comics Arts Festival with Wiley Miller (Non Sequitur) and Corey Pandolph (Bark Eater Lake/The Elderberries). The subject discussed was around the subject â??Surviving as a Print Cartoonistâ? which you read more about on Mike Petersonâ??s â??Nellie Blogâ??. Iâ??m a fan […]