Cartoonists and comics feeding on themselves

D.D.Degg

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Oct 29, 2009, 8:58:30 PM10/29/09

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Another visit to the Old Comics Retirement Home in Gasoline Alley:
http://www.comicstripnation.com/gasoline-alley/gasoline-alley-20091029.html

Eddie Bucket gets an out of town newspaper:
http://comics.com/the_buckets/2009-10-29/
(Though I'm afraid most of the strips WOULD be familiar
to him. That's usually my gripe when getting a new paper.)

And, of course, Pastis riffing on Sir John Tenniel (and Lewis Carroll)
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009/10/29&name=Pearls_Before_Swine
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/tenniel/alice/5.1.html

So here's Thom Buchanan posting The Mad "Comic" Opera,
starring Dick Tracy, Tarzan, and a comic strip cast of thousands.
[From MAD# 56, July 1960]
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/search/label/Mad

D.D.Degg

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Nov 1, 2009, 2:37:38 PM11/1/09

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Mark Tatulli and LIO honor their comic ancestors today:
http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2009/11/01/

Loved the yellowed paper and the Swinnerton(?) style.

The attention to detail is evident in the copyright notice -
North American Star Journal Press Company of New York,
Wonderful!
(Though the year 1914 would have November 1st as a Sunday.)

Hope the Old Comic Strip Characters Home become as
semi-regular as Scancarelli's Old Comics Retirement Home.

D.D.Degg

Brian Huntley

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Nov 1, 2009, 4:43:58 PM11/1/09

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Wow. Just wow.

Beefies

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Nov 1, 2009, 9:46:21 PM11/1/09

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> Mark Tatulli and LIO honor their comic ancestors today:
> http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2009/11/01/

Great strip, thanks for bringing it up.

>
> Hope the Old Comic Strip Characters Home become as
> semi-regular as Scancarelli's Old Comics Retirement Home.

Tatulli could do a lot with the idea, especially with classic artists who
had distinctive styles. Lio with Gould's Dick Tracy?

Brian F.
brianfies.blogspot.com

Mark Jackson

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Nov 1, 2009, 9:56:32 PM11/1/09

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Basil Wolverton.

--
Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson
Not knowing is much more interesting than believing
an answer that might be wrong. - Richard Feynman

Blinky the Wonder Wombat

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Nov 1, 2009, 10:49:15 PM11/1/09

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On Nov 1, 9:56 pm, Mark Jackson <mjack...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Beefies wrote:
> >> Mark Tatulli and LIO honor their comic ancestors today:
> >>http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2009/11/01/
>
> > Great strip, thanks for bringing it up.
>
> >> Hope the Old Comic Strip Characters Home become as
> >> semi-regular as Scancarelli's Old Comics Retirement Home.
>
> > Tatulli could do a lot with the idea, especially with classic artists who
> > had distinctive styles. Lio with Gould's Dick Tracy?
>
> Basil Wolverton.
>

Gahan Wilson

D.D.Degg

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Nov 3, 2009, 9:38:20 PM11/3/09

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Yesterday Rick Stromoski used a classic line
from a classic comic strip character.
http://www.unitedfeatures.com/web_thumbs/sn091102.gif
(Although I seem to remember the line failing
more often than "always" working.)

I didn't notice it, but today's "Zits" had
an inside joke. Mike Lynch explains at
http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2009/11/video-zitsdoozies-inside-joke.html

D.D.Degg

Jym Dyer

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Nov 7, 2009, 8:25:42 PM11/7/09

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http://www.unitedfeatures.com/web_thumbs/sn091102.gif

> (Although I seem to remember the line failing more often
> than "always" working.)

=v= The line alone generally did not work, but it was just
a prelude to some elaborate Wimpy scheme that *did* always
work (or almost always worked, at least when Segar was
drawing the strip.)
<_Jym_>