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Learning to Unlearn & Relearn
It's the start of a new School year, which is cause for celebration and discomfort for parents and students everywhere.Having to recall those trivial facts that we never thought would be relevant in...
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Stranger Things Under Orbit
It's been a long time since I've updated my blog recently, which means it's time for another Orbit-centered story arc! This once focusing around the time Professor Valvelock was arrested, and Orbit...
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The Fog & Pony Show
Recently, there was an expose of Hillary Clinton's book, What Happened, of her Campaign Trail that's been getting mixed reviews, from people who admire her, and people who loath her, usually for the...
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Weird Romance - Ernie's Pretty Birds
Bud Grace of Ernie Fame just announced that he's retiring his long-running cult comic on February 3rd of next year. For those who still devotedly follow his comic, this is something of a mild shock....
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Scary Pagan Holiday
Johnny Hart generally makes an annual big show over the religious Christian holidays, but isn't quite as forgiving when it comes to the first of the Triumvirate of year-end American Holidays.This...
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Vacation Vocation
Things haven't exactly been easy for my family recently. For starters, my sister, her husband AND her baby have all fallen sick. On top of which, OUR parents have just come down with whatever bug's...
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Disturbing Personal Project: THIS IS THEY
Frequent visitors may have noticed that I haven’t exactly been updating my blog as much as I would’ve liked to. This isn’t from a lack of subject material - indeed, I have TOO MANY potential comics to...
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Homeless Unfunnies
This week, during the For Better or For Worse rerun, we got a comic that wasn't included in their collection:On the FoobJournal, it was speculated that this comic might've been aimed at Lynn Johnson's...
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Forgotten Characters: Broomie's Girls
While doing research on the subject of my last post, I accidentally came upon some unintended interesting comics - well, interesting only to me, I guess.Broom Hilda spends so much time with her mainly...
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Political Favors
The month of November is generally known for two things - having American Thanksgiving, being the midway course of the triumvirate of triple year-end holidays, and political elections.While there was a...
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Pooch Café Outtakes
Newspaper Comics in themselves are a dying art. The remaining strips that still manage to have a stranglehold on the market are mainstays that kept hanging on long after their original artists and...
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Famine Snapshots
To make up for my annual tributes for Veteran's Day by paying attention to WWI comics such as Charley's War, (which I missed out this year), I posted comics about cartoonists doing tributes to Hunger...
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The Appeal of Anti-Climax Man
Fan1: Hey, I haven't seen you around much lately. What's up?Fan2: Nothing much. I've just been preoccupied with this series that's Crazy Awesome and Addictive: Anti-Climax Man.Fan1: Oh yeah, I think...
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Pet Peeves: De-Emphasized Reprints
While I touted the importance of emphasizing the banal in favor of expressing the importance of climatic scenes, there's a certain trend in reprints that's been bugging me a lot lately. It's not the...
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Multiple Blog Updates
Just a few things that needed additions to some of my previous posts. First up, I mentioned that there was a missing Mr. Boffo comic regarding the Homeless tribute.Turns out there was also a Marmaduke...
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December's New Year
Closing out the year is the last batch of BC's letters and poems, which, surprisingly enough, revolving around Christmastime are pretty sparse.I suppose that once Johnny Hart got more invested in...
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Sick Photo Finish
Things haven't been progressing well for my sister lately. Last month, she, her husband, AND the baby ALL wound up getting sick, each one getting the disease at one point or another. Then my parents...
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Influences upon THEY
It's been awhile since my last update, but I managed to add some more chapters to my current alternate project, This is THEY. The link I gave for the 1st chapter was somewhat bugged, so here's the...
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Canadian Oddities - The Fridge Door
Okay, this is going to take some explaining. In Newspapers, it's not unusual to have a section for younger readers that's made up of their contributions and leaden with illustrated commentary. There...
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Beating a Path to The Fridge Door
As promised, here's the first three months worth of The Fridge Door, back when it was just starting out in its relative normalcy.The whole page was shaped like a refrigerator, with the top half being...
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