Keep studying & admiring Jan Eliot’s artwork; the way she brings nature into a large percent of strips, her flawless anatomy drawn comic style with the four fingers, each panel designed with seeming ease giving you a lot to notice, making each one worth several looks to investigate. Again, as a lover of domestic fiction, [...]

This is part of a strip to show you the fine draftmanship, character deliniation and playfulness with the language of Barney & Clyde. Often philosophical as well as linguistically able, the strip is right at the top of my Best list. Finally, here’s an older one about an occasional character, Bunnyneedsahug which never fails to [...]

Larson’s take on the unaware suburbanites who park badly in two spaces, swipe all the condiments at their restaurant table and hold up the line wherever they are, trying to get a few cents off, is immaculate and hilarious to those who know them. Once I’m done noting the BEST, I’m going to rate them [...]

This perfect Start-Of-Winter cartoon coincided with a massive ice storm in our town affecting over 7000 people, mostly losing power. I sent it to everyone I could think of and got enthusiastic responses. Glen has a dry wit that goes with his fine lines. He comes the nearest of any cartoonist I know to drawing [...]

Coverly has just gotten better and better this entire January. I have wanted to put some comic strips on this blog as examples but haven’t figured out how. So I decided to try and photograph them on my computer screen. Does the picture work? Great things about this terrific comic mind – the sideways eyes [...]

Wiley’s great! His look-up word today, Anoesis means the sensation of pure emotion or feeliing WITHOUT cognitive content. In other words, you don’t have any thought processes going, just one long thrilling sensation. Not untypical for the average day-in-the-life. Like mine. This woman was simply thrilled by what she found in the garden. A perfect [...]

I grow fonder and fonder of Mark Buford’s, ‘Scary Gary,’ with his little green troll buddy, the head in the jar and the two gay Frankensteins next door. In panel 1 we see a bat flying ‘neath a full moon. Panel 2 has the well-drawn bat hanging upside down on the satellite dish. Panel 3, [...]

Someone from Bing Site asked this and I couldn’t find the link to reply. So my answer, so far is My Comics (Go Comics). You have to read all the instructions carefully but there’s an engine that says when you’ve been successful at selecting the comic you want. You just click on Content and an [...]

Right after posting about the horrors of Dog Eat Doug, yesterday’s panel was a small bird sitting on a fencepost from different camera angles. He says, “oooooo, the night is coming,” in a nice shot of green meadow, “the moon sings among the stars,” he says in a closeup, “the cats rustle in the cold [...]

If more of us made a fuss about Comic Strips being an important part of the paper and not just fill, syndicates like ‘Creative’ wouldn’t be able to sell their cheap strips anywhere, cartoonists who really have something to say & show would do better and we’d be on the cutting edge of wonderful. (There’s [...]