Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
Enjoy the beach, everybody! And enjoy Ty Templeton’s take on the toliday– er, holiday. Darn alliteration.
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Swiping From The Best
Those of us who enjoy the ancient and nearly-dead form of the newspaper comic strip know that the first successful regularly published strip was Bud Fisher’s Mutt & Jeff. It was enormously popular, running from 1907 through 1982, and reprints remain available each day online through various newspapers and through the gocomics.com service. Yes, it’s…
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Mix March Madness: Pictures for Sad Children vs. Wondermark!
In this corner, in the black and white trunks with no real detail (but plenty of spunk!)… Pictures for Sad Children! And in the opposite corner wearing the black and white pantaloons… Wondermark! Style over substance? Stick figures versus the classic style of yore! It’s a veritable fight for the ages. Get it? Children verses…
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Comic Strips: There’s Life In Them There Hills?
Our old pal Graham Nolan, presently the artist on the Rex Morgan newspaper strip and a former artist on Batman, Spider-Man, Hawkman, The Prowler, The Atom, The Phantom and many other fine comics, has accomplished the near-impossible: he’s got a syndication deal on an original newspaper strip. Damn. Just when I thought the medium was…
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Mix March Madness: Kawaii Not vs. Garfield Minus Garfield!
In this corner, wearing as little as possible: Kawaii Not And in this corner, hiding: Garfield Minus Garfield Which strip whips the other? That’s up to you! Vote now! [poll id=”7″] Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, March 12! Click here to see all the webcomics and their standing in the tournament!
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Mix March Madness: The Gutters vs. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal!
In this corner: The Gutters And in this corner… Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Who will win in this battle royale? That’s up to you! Vote now! [poll id=”4″] Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, March 12! Click here to see all the webcomics and their standing in the tournament!
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ALL PULP’S A BOOK A DAY-Two books today!!!
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/ Comic Strips and Comic Books of Radio’s Golden Ageby Ron Lackmann From Archie Andrews to Tom Mix, all radio characters and programs that ever stemmed from a comic book or comic strip in radio’s golden age are collected here, for the first time, in an easy-to-read, A through Z book! ÃÂ From Ron’s introduction:…
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PART TWO OF THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS!
Not far uptown, on River Street between several closed shops, a bar named Maxie’s lit the street with its blinking neon lights in the window and a large garish neon sign up the front of the building. Inside the clink of glasses and the sounds of a piano playing ragtime. The air in the bar…
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‘Sunday Funnies’ postage stamps issued
On July 16, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio, the Postal Service™ issued a 44-cent, Sunday Funnies commemorative stamps honoring five of our most beloved comic strips: Beetle Bailey, Calvin and Hobbes, Archie, Garfield, and Dennis the Menace, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps, designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland. Presumably, the logic…
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Annie’s Unending Cliffhanger
Damn, the old kid’s gone. And she’s taken the papers with her! Last Sunday marked the end of the classic comic strip, Little Orphan Annie. That’s sad, but that sort of thing has been going on for a long time now and it was inevitable, despite some first-rate work on the feature by Jay Maeder,…
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Little Orphan Annie: Goodbye, comics; Hello, Broadway
After 86 years in publication, Tribune Media Services announced the cancellation of the “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip. On June 13, Sunday papers will showcase the last strip featuring America’s favorite redheaded orphan. Harold Gray’s “Little Orphan Annie” was once published in hundreds of newspapers, but is now seen in fewer than twenty. The strip…
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Keith Knight Leaves Salon, Invades Google
Keith Knight will be at the GooglePlex in Mountain View, CA today at 11 AM. Keef will be showing his world famous slideshow consisting of his favorite and controversial Knight Life, (th)ink and K Chronicle comic strips. Which is also as good a place as any to mention that The K Chronicles website has be…
