The concept of a "silent" or pantomime comic strip isn’t exactly new (Little King anyone?) but creator Mark Tatulli has combined the concept with the wondrous imagination of a little boy in his daily Lio. ComicMix Radio lets Mark tell the story of where Lio came from and what’s coming up. Plus: Dave Sim is…
Ah, the new year. A time to freshen up, begin anew and reflect upon the past. For some of us, this means looking back to a fateful new year’s day in 1995, when after exactly 15 years of service to the absurd and hilarious, Gary Larson finally put The Far Side to rest. Who can…
Tom Ryan’s Tumbleweeds ends its 42 year run in the newspapers today, at the request of the artist. The always entertaining big-foot western strip launched an animated teevee series, a musical and a theme-park, as well as appearing in hundreds of newspapers throughout the years. Ryan continues a trend of creators retiring their strips at…
On this day in 1949, Dick Tracy married his sweetie of 18 years, Tess Trueheart. Here’s to the lovebirds.
Read more Simone and Ajax Christmas adventures: 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 and A Christmas Calamity! Oh, and don’t forget the ongoing Adventures of Simone and Ajax all here on ComicMix. (And no, we’re not running a GrimJack installment today– for some reason, we just didn’t think that the…
We continue our ongoing campaign for those of you who only look at RSS feeds to actually read some comics. Read more Simone and Ajax Christmas adventures: 1996 1997 1998 1999 2002 2004 2006 And we have more to come before the big day! Oh, and don’t forget the ongoing Adventures of Simone and Ajax…
Bitter? Not at all… Read more Simone and Ajax Christmas adventures: 1996 1997 1998 1999 2002 2004 2006 And we have more to come before the big day! Oh, and don’t forget the ongoing Adventures of Simone and Ajax all here on ComicMix.
For nearly three decades, artist Lynn Johnston has entertained millions with her daily For Better Or For Worse comic strip. Now, she has taken the already innovative property in a totally new direction – and she tells ComicMix Radio just what’s ahead. Plus • Superman gets a new artist • Dale Keown returns to Darkness……
From the Wall Street Journal, Joanne Kaufman’s article on why your comics page in your newspaper is making you snooze: Janet Grimley had some hard-won investment wisdom to share with colleagues at a gathering earlier this fall of the American Association of Sunday and Feature editors in Savannah, Ga. "Look at your comics pages like…
Sustained flashback to 1940, and to an early stage of confidence and high promise for Al Capp’s long-running comic strip, Li’l Abner. Conventional wisdom, bolstered by accounts from Capp his ownself, holds that the name Yokum is a combination of “yokel” and “hokum.” That would be Yokum, as in Abner Yokum and his rural Southern…
Charles Schulz‘s life is already turning into a legend, in large part because he did the one thing a man can rarely control: he died perfectly, at the precise right time and place. Late in the night before his final Peanuts strip would appear in newspapers, on February 12, 2000, Schulz slipped into immortality. …
I’ve been sorting through the newspaper-cartoon backlog lately, beefing up the digital-image archive while determining whether anything from a busy stretch at the drawing board during the 1990s might bear resurrecting for fresh publication. Much of this material involves a Hollywood-lampoon strip called Moviola, which originated as a weekly feature for the Star-Telegram of Fort…
