And we’ll start with the For Better or For Worse rerun that went through the after effects this week of Farley’s death that was shown the week before (originally from April 1995). Even after ...
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/27/rerunning-thru-the-past-weeks-comic-strips/
In case you hadn’t noticed, when I feature a syndicated cartoon here, I add the name of the syndicate with it. For instance, I would label this one Barney & Clyde (Counterpoint). A few months a...
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/26/csotd-original-adaptations/
A couple Sundays ago we noted Bob Weber, Jr.’s use of Lucky Bucks and crediting Paul Fung. We also linked to Mark Johnson’s thoughts on the origins of such comic ephemera: If I recall it righ...
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/24/wayback-when-comic-stamps-funny-money/
If you haven’t been reading Crabgrass (AMS), you should start now, and begin here because today’s would be too much of a spoiler to start with, plus you need to catch up if you’re going to ...
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/24/csotd-humpday-humor-3/
San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have chosen 16 nominees from whom voters will select 4 to be inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer. These 4...
Frazz (AMS) starts us with a reminder that some things can’t be purchased, except of course that they can. As it happens, the strip ran just after the Boston Marathon, as likely planned, but al...
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/22/csotd-jokers-poseurs-and-thieves/
When Nancy Beiman was 65 and contemplating retirement from her job as a professor of animation, she had no clue as to how she would fill her days. “Many people take up an artistic hobby. But wh...
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/22/nancy-beiman-a-new-start-after-60/
The current Mary Worth makes me wonder if June Brigman ever drew Angel and the Ape. “According to my research” – No. So Tom Batiuk has moved his Komix Korner format from Funky Winkerbean to...
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/21/the-sunday-color-comic-supplement/
Pickles (AMS) offers a lovely example of tightrope walking, with a gag that its audience will get, even if they aren’t all that computer literate, but with a wink as well to any cyberly-literat...
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/21/csotd-according-to-somebody-elses-research/
Kal Kallaugher could run this anytime, but it’s particularly relevant at the moment, as we face the twin factors of emerging technologies that make forgery and fraud easier, and political opera...
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/20/csotd-a-few-timely-passages/