November, 2011
What Are Your Earliest Memories Of The Sunday Funnies?
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Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott, the guys behind the comic strip Zits, just came out with a collection of their favorite Zits Sunday strips. What’s cool is that they pitched the question, “What are your earliest memories of the Sunday Funnies?’ to many different cartoonists, and then scattered their answers throughout the book. Here’s mine: “My earliest memories of the Sunday funnies involved Silly Putty. I smushed it on the comics page, peeled it off, then the characters became mine to bend and stretch how I pleased. In terms of the modern technological quest for an ‘interactive experience between media and audience,’ I got mine from inside a plastic egg.” I would love to hear yours! |
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The Love Child of Rhymes With Orange and Bizarro
The ever-talented Dan Piraro, who is both a friend, painter, blogger, comedian and the creator of the comic strip Bizarro, does a semi-frequent “Sunday Punnies” feature. I am mighty proud to hold the #3 spot in the November 13th line up. A lot of cartoonists invite other artist’s comic strip characters into their own strips, and for years I’ve looked on with envy while Cathy met Pearls Before Swine’s Pig and Rat or Jan Elliott invited Lynn Johnston’s Ellie Patterson over to hang with the girls in her Stone Soup comic strip. But since I don’t have a recurring character with a name, we don’t get the invite. So having a cameo in Dan’s strip made me really happy. |
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