Category: Comic Strips

  • Calvin grows up

    In the last year, someone shared a comic on Facebook. It showed a grown up Calvin giving his daughter the Hobbes doll to play with. It was one of the most heart-warming things I’d seen in a while, and I hope that Bill Waterson himself would enjoy it. (Turns out that several web artists have…

  • Starving (Comic Book) Artists

    The Comics Issue: If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don’t They Pay?

  • Way to go, Brad!

    I’ve posted before about how Brad is now the most awesome character in the Luann strip. I’ve been following his career with great interest. I CANNOT believe I just quoted “The Phantom Menace”. 🙁

  • Doesn’t look good for Toni

    I’ve said before how I always love it when the comic strip Luann gets back to focusing on her older brother, Brad. Frequently, these are the most dramatic story arcs…and it looks like we may be in for a doozy. I really hope Toni doesn’t die. Need to catch up?

  • Resurgence of piracy

    There is obviously a resurgence of interest in piracy due to the recent capture of a USA-flagged ship and the hostage situation with the ship’s captain that happily ended in his rescue just this morning. Many of us, of course, still think of pirates in terms of 1700s brigands in tall ships with parrots, bandanas,…

  • The Birthday haul (a/k/a “Game reviews to come”)

    I had a lovely little birthday party with my wife, Melinda, and niece, Jenny.  They bought a glittery banner and I realized I’ve never had a banner for my birthday party before.  They also restarted a long-abandoned tradition of lighting a candle on the cake for every year I’ve been alive, and there’s a reason…

  • Classic comic recommendations from the readership?

    Hello everyone. My birthday is coming up and I want to add more variety to my Amazon wishlist.  With my local comic shop kaput, I don’t really read many comics anymore.  I’ve finally gotten down to the dregs of my stockpiled trade paperbacks, like The Transformations of Jimmy Olsen.  After years of everyone raving about…

  • Ombudsmen

    Most of you probably know about the Watchmen parody that Scott Kurtz is doing calleed “Ombudsmen“, but there’s the link for the first day just in case you didn’t. So far, it’s pretty funny, especially Dagwood as Dr. Manhattan.

  • A great moment in today’s Luann

    I know the comic is called Luann, but whenever the subject is Brad the strip is much better. After 9/11, Brad went from a shiftless older brother eating out of the fridge to an aspiring fireman, and in his quest he’s moved out of the house and fallen in love with another firefighter. Whenever the…

  • Getting out the ten foot pole

    R.B. brought to my attention a rather small controversy-that-wasn’t, and at first I wasn’t going to post about it. Partly because it’s political and I try to avoid that on this site, where I mention politics maybe a few times a year when it comes up in news related to comics. Partly because I like…