Category Archives: Comic Strips

Mutts Goes Meta With Mondrian

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Wim Lockefeer

In today’s Mutts strip, Patrick McDonnell pays hommage to Dutch modernist painter Piet Mondrian. And while he’s at it, he has his characters get all meta about his own medium. Better than your average Sunday comic, if you ask me. … Continue reading →

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Little Nemo Googles

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Wim Lockefeer

Today Google celebrated the 107th anniversary of Windsor McCay’s seminal comic strip Little Nemo In Slumberland with quite a delightful doodle.  The artwork for this gem was created by Jennifer Hom, who earlier also did the quite remarkable 2012 Saint … Continue reading →

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Ain’t no party like a Jello party

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Wim Lockefeer

Back in 1937, Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone were over the moon with Jell-o, as can be seen from this little strip from their Jell-o Recipe Book of that year.  The recipes that are mentioned in the comic, are available … Continue reading →

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Explainers a la McDonnell

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Wim Lockefeer

Here’s a recent Mutts strip, paying hommage to Jules Feiffer‘s inimitable (and insufferable) eplainers. (click the image for a larger version – Mutts 2012 © Patrick McDonnell)

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It’s Ziggy !

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Wim Lockefeer

Now this must be the very last classic strip character I’d ever expect to guest star in the überhip Hopeless Old Men On Skateboards ! (strip © MC)

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Happy Easter

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Wim Lockefeer

What better way to celebrate Easter than this Bizarro cartoon, which literally has everything.  So don’t ask me to enumerate. (cartoon © Dan Piraro Distributed by King Features Syndicate)

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You’re in existential doubt, Charlie Brown

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Wim Lockefeer

Remember Garfield Minus Garfield or Calvin Without Hobbes, and how removing one element from a popular strip suddenly added a whole layer of existential angst ?  Well, here is the nec plus ultra of the genre, and it’s even more … Continue reading →

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