Featuring Shoe, Broom-Hilda, Bizarro The New Yorker, Creature Features, The Phantom, Arlo and Janis, Olive and Popeye and Thimble Theater. I began my comic strip reading with the Comics Kingdom feed today and Shoe was one of the first ones to make an impression. The psychiatrist was good, but the sofa and the Perfessor lounging […]
Blondie and Dagwood and … Blame Blondie by Dean Young and John Marshall (actually Elmo) for this post’s title. So is John Zakour and Scott Roberts’ Working Daze situated in the city where Dagwood works? Lou from Dagwood’s favorite diner showed up in the Working Daze panel today. One more Blondie as part of today’s […]
With the stock market, and more importantly GoComics, crashing we could use some laughs. Magic Bus Gracie gets on the bus that takes her to school. Too much the Magic Bus Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos offer an alternative reality in this past week’s Baldo. Reality Checking Reality Check Reality Check misses it by […]
Unfortunate Truths An unfortunate truth from WuMo: Background on lorem ipsum from Jack Shepard. Not to be confused with Charles Brubaker’s Lauren Ipsum. On a related journalistic note from Susie MacNelly and Ben Lansing and Shoe: The above comes with my repeated plea for GoComics to replace the Gary Brookins credit above the comic strip […]
The opening panel of Prince Valiant took my mind to the long-gone time of black light posters. That panel would have made a great one. And maybe that is what got me thinking about the colors at Comics Kingdom, they seemed more vibrant today. Even the pastels appear to be more pastel-ly. Beetle Bailey came […]
I really wanted to decompress from political stress with some funny stuff today, but just when I thought I was out, Mike Thompson pulls me back with today’s Grand Avenue (AMS). I guess there may be some comfort in knowing that there’s nothing new in all this, and that faint-hearted school administrators have been shutting […]
Happy New Year, 1915, from this little feller. Since New Year’s cartoons are interchangeable, I thought instead I’d dip into my files of favorites from before I launched this venture nine years ago. So let’s start with my first posting in rec.arts.comics.strips, nearly 20 years ago, which didn’t keep my numbskull boss from selling […]
Last Monday, I posted an original Jeff MacNelly Shoe as a perk to a lucky (and quick!) donor to the Fund The Daily Cartoonist campaign. It was claimed in less than an hour. Susie MacNelly, who has always been a generous supporter of the blog, has offered to provide an original so we can do […]
The Chicago Tribune, the home of the legendary cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, has announced that it has dropped Jeff’s comic strip Shoe. In an email to Jim Romenesko, the tribune editor Geoff Brown said that it was just a matter of trying to keep the comics page fresh. Shoe was replaced by The Middletons, a Tribune […]
From the Treetops Tattler’s own Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk (AKA Michael Cleverly, Chris’s oldest friend): Artist, cartoonist, writer, photographer, Chris Cassatt was sane?.pretty much. He reached the milestone of helming the nationally syndicated comic strip ?SHOE? for one thousand weeks (almost 13 years) in February of 2012, and at that time mental health professionals declared Cassatt […]
Gary Brookins has worked with Chris Cassatt for 15 years on Jeff MacNelly’s Pluggers panel cartoon and then later on Shoe. I asked him his thoughts on the passing of his friend and colleague. Gary writes: When Jeff turned ?Pluggers? over to me in 1997, he put me in touch with Chris via telephone. Thus […]
Chris Cassatt, who became Jeff MacNelly’s assistant in 1993 on the comic strip Shoe has passed away after battling cancer. Chris was introduced to Jeff through Mother Goose and Grimm creator Mike Peters and thus began a collaboration that lasted until Jeff’s passing in 2000. Chris was instrumental in helping Jeff use computers to streamline […]
Susie MacNelly, Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins, who are carrying on the legacy of Jeff MacNelly’s Shoe comic strip, are producing six original Shoe strips for an online companion website for the USA Network original miniseries Political Animals. The show’s fictional national newspaper, The Washington Globe features weekly updates of plot points and the show’s […]