CSotD: 1924 Part Two – The Strips
(Banner by Johnny Walbridge, who, as noted yesterday, went on to be a Disney writer and animator.) We’ll start our…
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The Missing Popeye Files – Filling the Gap
King Features has put up a different sort of trouble slide, which isn’t their usual announcement for missing files and,…
The Missing Popeye Files, Day Three
KFS continues to run the Dec 31, 1939, episode of Vintage Thimble Theater. Here are the missing episodes to date:
CSotD: Swearing True Allegiance to Spring
I’m with Katy in today’s Adam@Home. We haven’t had actual snow here lately but we’ve only had two days of…
CSotD: Funny stuff, for the most part
We’ll start today with a Free Range (Creators) that doesn’t inspire any Great Thoughts beyond my memories of setting up…
CSotD: Issues of Continuity
Today’s Judge Parker (KFS) has set me thinking about continuity strips, and, since there are only a few left, that…
CSotD: Spinning out of control
This Steve Kelley (Creators) comic provoked some back-and-forth on Facebook, and let me start off by giving Kelley props for…
CSotD: Spin, Hype, Lies
I find it perversely comforting that, having praised Popeye the Sailor Mensch on Saturday for giving away a million dollars,…
CSotD: The Week Ends With Bernies
The Oatmeal has it right: Enough already with the Bernie memes. Timing is everything and you had your chance and…
CSotD: Merry 1925
Looks like Dennis and I were on the same page, featuring Comics of Christmas Past, but, as usual, I’ll be…
CSotD: Friday Funnies (Do you remember laughter?)
Wouldn’t it be nice if they carried signs like this fellow in Macanudo? But we don’t discuss politics on Friday….
CSotD: Friday Funnies Come On A Friday This Week!
It’s been a while since Sir Stewart has made an appearance in Alex, but then it had been a while…
CSotD: Friday Funnies, TGIF
I know, I know. Archduke Ferdinand and all that. A few cartoonists are already on it, but Prickly City is…
CSotD: Mr. Lang is very old
The news of John Lewis’s pancreatic cancer inspires this Mike Luckovich cartoon saluting cancer survivors and hoping he’s one of…
CSotD: Sailing to meet the sun
And diamonds, Janis. Lots of diamonds. Which, as noted here before, are pretty worthless except that people think they aren’t….