Calvin and Hobbes has been back in the Boston Globe ever since the demise of Garfield.
My mixed feelings about it at the time has taken a dive towards the
negative, not because the strips are no good, but because the syndicate
that’s now recycling old strips seem to be doing so with little respect
for the material. For [...]
Maybe it’s not as important as the elections in Iraq, or even Somerville, but this vote has consequences: will we be forced to read Red and Rover or Pardon My Planet
with breakfast for the next aeon of our lives? Since the choice is
between cheerful mediocrity and gloomy confusion, respectively, I cast
my vote for R&R.
Now
it also [...]
Arlo and Janis turns 20
today. Today’s strip features a flashback to the very first strip of
July 29, 1985 (wow, I was 10). Compared to 75 year old Blondie, Janis
is a veritable spring chicken.
For anyone who isn’t familiar with the strip, time seems to have been
moving at about 1/3 real time. The couple’s son Gene (no [...]
Is the Boston Globe finally giving comics the space they deserve, or
sending them off to a newspaper ghetto? Today’s Globe featured Sidekick,
“a new section that is your guide to a better day.” The comics now fill
5 pages of the new section as opposed to the old 2. True, the pages are
the smaller tabloid format, but [...]
Responding to apparently voluminous emails from readers, the dull
duck confirmed that the blatantly obvious send-up of his strip
appearing in Jon Stewart’s America is, in fact, a satire. The duck then threw in a more audience-appropriate joke about Dan Rather.
Zippy the Pinhead
finds himself at the Seven Dwarfs (yes, “Dwarfs,” not the Tolkeinien
“Dwarves”) Restaurant — a nice place for dinner when, say, you’re
coming in from O’Hare to visit your in-laws.
Since reading the Boston Globe Magazine is a great way to depress
yourself by being reminded that you live in a small town after all, I
almost missed this feature article
on one of my favorite cartoonists, Hilary Price, who also happens to be
a local (sort of). The article is chock-full of words but offers little
insight into the [...]
A few Sundays ago (during my inexplicable blogging hiatus), Berke
Breathed ran an “I-dare-you-to-sue-me-for-copyright-infringement”
Sunday strip depicting just about every popular comic strip animal in
history and making the claim that there’s never been a major
female animal character in comic strip history (as “adjunct
girlfriends,” Daisy Duck et.al. don’t count). Message board pundits can
disagree, but I think he’s right [...]
Oh man, this is the funniest one I’ve ever read:
The problem with not blogging for a few weeks is, well, inertia is a powerful thing. Bil Keane would know:
(Yes, this is indeed a “>Non Sequitur that I actually liked… even if it wasn’t funny)
Switching tracks entirely, Jimmy Johnson has been re-running some of his best strips these past two weeks, especially the “Daddy’s friend“
series, [...]
