http://rosedeshaw.com Slices of Now Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:10:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While I love the iconic swish of Street's pen, I feel his style puts up a barrier between seeing the reality of his characters, their humanity. Fisher reads like Captain Crunch on the cereal box. And I'm rooting for Street to get closer to the reader's heart. ... http://rosedeshaw.com/philip-streets-fisher-developing-in-toronto-papers/ Norm Feuti has built his characters so well that even 3 panels of two guys in suits talking has a suspenseful and compelling charm. Because we know the hurt and pain these two guys have caused all the other characters in the strip in the past, especially our ... http://rosedeshaw.com/norm-feutis-retail-well-told-well-drawn/ Both art and exquisitely sarcastic, witty dialogue make Mike Peter's work always tops. This particular cartoon makes fun of some of the devices of For Better Or Worse, a domestic cartoon of which I am not a fan, trying ever so hard. It's a 'read it and flinch' ... http://rosedeshaw.com/mother-goose-grim-by-mike-peters/ Feeling of reality here you don't get with most cartoons. I'd hate to call it heartwarming (misused term, that) but it is definitely small town with a caring attitude. All three of my domestic faves have an absence of bratty or know it all or cute kids but ... http://rosedeshaw.com/one-big-happy-great-domestic-cartoon/ Domestic stuff again but from a family that might sound dysfunctional to outsiders, but is accepting of all their excentricies. Two dreamy imaginative children: Petey & Alice and their very odd take on the world. Petey is a cartoonist specializing in zombis but not at all in the ... http://rosedeshaw.com/cul-de-sac-richard-thompson-a-cartoon-i-look-forward-to/ This authoritative sounding fellow was ahead of me in a long lineup at Loblaws this morning. There were hardly any lines at the two checkouts for 1-8 items. "items just means kinds of things he says, looking at my cart. By that reckoning I only ... http://rosedeshaw.com/items-vs-numbers-at-grocery-checkout/ Brewster is dumb as a box of astroid chunks but good hearted and well meaning as characters in the strip are always pointing out. There is a perennially evil scientist and a kid that is constantly used by him as a guinea pig (but survives), learns nothing and ... http://rosedeshaw.com/two-favorite-parody-daily-comics-1-brewster-rockit-by-tim-rickard-2-rip-haywire-by-dan-thompson/ 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. ... http://rosedeshaw.com/jan-eliots-stone-soup-takes-comic-art-to-new-heights/ 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 ... http://rosedeshaw.com/daily-comic-strips-house-greatest-modern-art-gene-wingarten-dan-weingarten-dave-clark/ 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 ... http://rosedeshaw.com/great-daily-comics-the-dinette-set-by-julie-larson/