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 …

Mother Goose and Grimm

Mike Peters takes a few shots in our direction this week:

Casper and the Spectrals

Trick or treat? Direct from the Comic Con… due out just in time for Halloween, a new “Harvey” comic book from writer Todd Dezago and …

Harvey-Tomb

This is the grave marker for Alfred Harvey (1913-1994), founder of Harvey Comics, who is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Westchester …

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: What is Torch Tiger?

Following on the heels of last year’s successful graphic novel anthology Who is Rocket Johnson?, Disney story artists and directors have …

Rare Tom and Jerry comic strips

Ger Apeldoorn has posted a selection of rarely seen Tom & Jerry newspaper comics strips from 1950. Though credited to “Fred Quimby”, they …

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