Recently while reading a review of Hal Foster’s Tarzan—The Complete Sunday Comics 1931–1937, I was dismayed to see a young Tarzan’s derrière directed directly in my direction. And it wasn’t just a delineation of a duff, but a full double-wide. With a dimple. If I did a double-take, did readers in the 1930’s? When did […]

In 1995 not-yet Prince Valiant scribe Mark Schultz partnered with never-official Flash Gordon artist Al Williamson to create a two issue Flash Gordon comic book for Marvel Comics. Though he was never the official artist of the comic strip Al Williamson famously drew Flash Gordon at various times from 1966 to 1995 for comic books, […]

Some notes on newspaper comic strips from the past week. King Features Gets Into the Foodservice Business It is not unusual for Zippy to visit a diner, though he did so in five of the six dailies this week. And the Motel Cafe has been the center of the Rex Morgan universe for three months […]