Category: Comic Strips

  • Theater Hopper becomes a weekly

    Theater Hopper will now come out only on Wednesdays, as Tom Brazleton devotes more time to his new son.

  • Johnny Hart (B.C., Wizard of Id) dies at drawing table

    Cartoonist Johnny Hart dies at his storyboard, age 76. He was the creator of B.C. and co-creator of Wizard of Id. R.I.P. UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has a reader who points out that Johnny Hart coined the phrase “kick-butt Saturday” as the nickname for the day before Easter…the day on which Hart would later pass away.…

  • Silver Surfer is real!

    I used to love checking out “Theater Hopper“. Problem is, I never visited it every day because it only comes out periodically. I just bookmarked it at work and every now and then I’d dig it out of my bookmarks and read a few months’ worth at a time. Then I got laid off a…

  • The super-roofie

    I’ll have more to “say” on this later, but for now this sums up my problem with “Superman Returns”.

  • January 3rd!? Oh my gosh, I forgot to buy “PvP: The Series”!

    Dangit! I just realized that I forgot to buy a subscription to PvP The Series before the end of 2006! had it on my Christmas List, but it was a late addition. My wife already bought me enough stuff from my list, like the Kensington Trackball, “America Alone” and the “Government Manual for New Superheroes“.…

  • PvP: The Animated Series

    Scott Kurtz announced today the 2007 launch of “PvP: The Series”, a hand-drawn animated cartoon that will be viewable on the web for subscribers only. Subscriptions are $19.95 for the next month, after which they will be $29.95.

  • Scott Kurtz commands it. I obey.

    All hail the hypno-toad! Reposted from PVP’s blog: Get to know Sheldon. My friend Dave Kellett was one of those aspiring cartoonists with a dream to one day get picked up by a syndicate. Unlike most aspiring cartoonists, however, Dave pulled it off. His comic strip Sheldon was "web-syndicated" at Comics.com. By "web-syndicated" I mean…

  • What’s the difference between Garfield and Dogbert?

    I realize you’re tempted to say, “One is an essential and riotously funny character in one of the all-time great office satires and the other is a dumb cat who has somehow mined comic gold out of endless jokes about the same few topics: hating Mondays, loving lasagne, being fat and lazy, cruelty to dogs…

  • The comic as a weapon of international intrigue

    (Those of you who hate politics, please note: this post is more about cartooning than it is about politics.) Last year, a few newspapers around the world ran cartoons depicting Mohammed… in defiance of some Muslim strictures against showing Mohammed * … as a test to see whether free speech and journalism still trumped sensitivity…

  • Why’d I first mention MySpace?

    Earlier this week, I saw that Skull the Troll, followed by Brent Sienna and Francis Ottoman all had MySpace pages. It bugged me so much that I left that tab open in my browser to remind me to post a rant about it. I finally did. Today. And I completely forgot to mention Skull, Brent…