The Sunday Funnies (1/17/10)

Our roundup of recent comic strips and editorial cartoons that reference animation characters returns – first with today’s Mother Goose …

Walt Kelly + Famous Studios = Cilly Goose

Walt Kelly, a former Disney animator and one of the greatest cartoonists of the 20th Century, is not one usually associated with the …

Harvey Comics Treasury

Between 2007 and 2009, Leslie Cabarga and I had the privilege of assembling five volumes of classic Harvey Comics reprints for Dark Horse …

The Sunday Funnies (1/3/10)

Our weekly survey of recent comic strips and editorial cartoons that reference animation characters. Though we usually feature print …

The Sunday Funnies (12/27/09)

Our weekly survey of recent comic strips and editorial cartoons that reference animation characters. Once again we begin with The …

Government Comics online archive

Richard Graham at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has put together an online collection of 183 government comic books – i.e. comics …

The Sunday Funnies (12/20/09)

Our weekly survey of recent comic strips and editorial cartoons that reference animation characters. Mike Peters in the Dayton Daily …

The Sunday Funnies 12/13/09

Our weekly survey of comic strips and editorial cartoons that reference animation characters. Glen and Gary McCoy’s The Flying …

Popeye Google

December 8th is the 105th birthday of Elzie Segar, creator of the Thimble Theatre comic strip and Popeye the Sailor. Google is …

The Sunday Funnies 12/6/09

Our weekly roundup of classic animation references in comic strips and editorial cartoons. This week we have two relating the White House …

The Sunday Funnies 11/29/09

This week’s round-up of animation-related comic strip gags: Mark Tatulli’s Lio from Friday Nov. 27th. Mike Peter’s Mother Goose …

The Sunday Funnies 11/22/09

This week’s comic strips with references to classic cartoon stars. Above Mark Parisi’s Off The Mark from Thursday (removed by request …

Looking for Calvin and Hobbes

Nevin Martell’s Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Strip has piqued my …

Marvel Zombies

A little creative treat for Halloween: Ivan Guerrero has been taking crappy Marvel TV cartoons from the Sixties and re-editing them into …

Gammill Meets Mell Lazarus

Animation writer Tom Gammill (The Simpsons, Futurama) visits with cartoonist Mell Lazarus (Miss Peach), and they check out his …

Mutts goes Fleischer

I don’t know where Patrick McDonnell is going with this week’s continuity in his Mutts comic strip – but I like it. (Thanks, …

Today’s Dennis

Today’s Dennis The Menace panel. Is this a swipe at prime time and cable cartoon shows? My caption would’ve been: “I remember when …

Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror #15

The annual Treehouse of Horror issue is out today. It’s guest edited by Sammy Harkam, the creator of the Kramers Ergot anthology. If you …

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