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 […]
You don’t actually have to be funny to be in the Friday Funnies, and Heart of the City scores with a sweet Sunday rerun that brought me back to my adolescence. The only places open after dinner in our little town were bars, one of which was our designated hangout in high school, a place […]
Adam@Home provides an opportunity for me to complain about something relatively trivial and segue into something more substantive that I’ve been reluctant to bitch about. Rob Harrell and I could quarrel about what the ends of an untied bow tie look like, but floppy is floppy. On the other hand, I think he’d agree that […]
I was going to post this Mr. Boffo cartoon starring Paul Manafort, but we don’t do politics on Friday. (FWIW, the joke is that he’s completely clear on the concept.) Instead, here are some strips highlighting a week in which a whole lot of cartoonists happened to come up with gags to which I responded […]
The Lockhorns sounds a predictable note this morning, but I chuckled. The strip has been quite hip in recent months about technology and similar things, which I wouldn’t have expected from an old-school Bickersons sort of strip, but that makes me surprised Loretta doesn’t realize Leroy can click-click-click until he gets to the NFL Network […]
Our weekly respite from the political flood comes just in time. If the Night of the Chickenhawk doesn’t shake a few Deplorables out of the basket, maybe they’ll start to figure it out when they find their wall donations are going to the wrong grifter. But never mind. C’est le weekend! We’ll get in […]
I wasn’t planning to run any more Veteran’s Day rain strips, but this L’il Donnie ought not to go unremarked. There have been several strips on the topic, but, as I predicted the other day, even the ones that are above average already feel stale. The outrage was Saturday and, while I noted the barriers […]
This is a single panel from Bob Eckstein’s “A Sketchbook of the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference,” in the current New Yorker, and you should go read that if you want the rest of this to make sense. (Your choice, of course.) Eckstein’s piece is about fiction writing and book publishing, but it applies to a […]
In advance of the October release of their 35th book “Adult Time,” the Daily Cartoonist conducted an email interview with “Baby Blues” creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott. ** TDC: Your 35th (!) Baby Blues book hits the streets in mid-October. How does a 28-year-old comic have 35 books? JS: This is actually our 45th […]
The Simpsons writer, The Doozies creator and unquestionable Ernie Bushmiller fan (evidence here and here) Tom Gammill spied a comic strip props from this season’s Mad Men that included several Nancy strip by Ernie. Tom writes me: Fans of Mad Men may have noticed this season that copywriter Peggy Olson has Sunday comic strips taped […]
In the strip the characters have lived in a fictional suburban town of Three Rocks, but yesterday’s Nancy Sunday comic reveals that Three Rocks is a suburb of the not-so-fictional Nashville, TN. The comic was part of a Nashville anti-littering campaign and Nancy is the spokesperson. From Nancy writer/illustrator Guy Gilchrist’s blog: The upcoming Sunday […]
The Daily News Journal interviews Nancy cartoonist Guy Gilchrist What did you learn from Jim Henson, in terms of life and work? Gilchrist: Jim Henson taught me a lot. He taught me how to work in a team. He really was my creative father. I learned my comedy timing. I’d been working (in the industry) […]
USA Today profiles Nancy cartoonist Guy Gilchrist and how his new hometown of Nashville TN is energizing him. But while Gilchrist has preserved the strip’s style and tone, he’s also taken Nancy in new directions. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz once gave him a valuable bit of advice: The only way to do a comic strip […]