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Summer’s here and the time is right for … ch-ch-ch-changes.
Unless you are Greg and Karen Evans.
The reaction to the artistic switch that happened in Luann Monday was not taken kindly by most of the fans that responded here at TDC, some going so far as to say Luann no more. Fans at the Luann GoComics page were a bit more tolerant of Jay Fosgitt‘s art on the dream sequence.
Maybe because Olivia Jaimes was the sixth or seventh cartoonist to sign the Fritzi Ritz/Nancy comic strip…
No problems this past week when Dana Simpson turned her cartooning duties over to Phoebe.
Of course it’s not the first time Phoebe and Her Unicorn has been drawn by the title character.
Big Nate has also gone auto-biographical his adventures prior to today.
Maybe the next time Greg Evans goes the guest artist route his fans will take more kindly to the change.
Taking the Olivia Jaimes route John Hambrockspent the past week easing his fans into next week’s change,
when the corporate take over of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee has been realized.
Well, at least someone is celebrating cartooning with a difference.
Paul Trap and Thatababy praise the work of Big Daddy Roth today.
Elsewhere a cartoonist walks through his own comic strip scene.
Francesco Marciuliano makes a cameo appearance in Sally Forth as drawn by Jim Keefe.
Leigh Ruben once more subverts a favorite song to his own purpose in Rubes.
Then Vic Lee takes an old adage adults told us when we were children to get a laugh in Pardon My Planet.
Cartoonist Luca Debus gets introspective with today’s Wannabe:
The feature image is from today’s Heathcliff by Peter Gallagher.
Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 11, 2023
If you ask me, romance novels are a perfectly valid and valuable genre of literature. What bugs me about them is the specific ways that the fans try to defend the genre (which in itself is a fine thing to do).
The books are often full of history… So? A book doesn’t become great art because it’s educational. A book set in contemporary times isn’t (And as romance fans sometimes point out, a lot of historical romances take place in a sort of fantasy version of the past. Not “fantasy” as in “dragons and magic” but as in “Characters have modern-day values, and all their teeth still in their mouths.”) Tom Clancy doesn’t become a great literary master just because his books teach you about international politics and give you specs on air force planes.
Romance novels usually focus on women’s pleasure, fans often say. That’s a good thing, natch, but it doesn’t automatically make a book well-written or the characters deep.
The REAL reason that romance novels are good, when they are, is that they have deep characters, dialogue that rings true, prose that says exactly what it’s supposed to say, conclusions that are satisfying without feeling contrived, and other things like that.
And yeah, some of it is just cheap thrills. Which is fine if that’s what you’re into, of course. No need to try to dress it up. Nothing makes it harder to take a genre seriously (for me, at least) than when the fans insist that every darn book must be regarded as great art in its own way.
Boise Ed suggested this venerable “For Better or for Worse” strip (from 1993), commenting: “This one really warmed the cockles of my heart (and I have no idea where that idiom came from).“
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P.S. Ed didn’t give it a category, he called it “just sweet“, so I’ve added an “Awww” tag.
The New York Times has a Flashback quiz, which asks you to place 8 historical events in chronological order. The New Yorker has now started Laugh Lines, in which you are asked to put some New Yorker cartoons in chronological order. Here’s one:
https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/laugh-lines/no-2
I haven’t tested to what extent these are available to non-subscribers. The cartoon version would seem impossible, but there’s usually a clue to some event (e.g. the word “Obama”).
This one popped up at the end when I finished:
Danny Boy send this cutie in: “The pets’ fondness for a “little pink sock” is a running trope. But then the pairing of sock/stocking is I guess “the joke””
And a few holiday entries:
submitted this one last year, commenting “Every now and then, Pardon My Planet comes up with a real zinger.” I think I’ve seen it before, but I can’t find it in a CIDU post, and in any case it’s worth repeating:
The not-quite-complete “Arlo” moment in this “Zits” came as a big surprise. Perhaps King Features relaxed their censorship standards when they relaunched the Comics Kingdom website?
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P.S. And what if Jeremy’s mom had not left it out? What then?
Two half Arlos published on exactly the same day do not count as a whole synchronicity, but this Luann was pretty good, too:
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P.S. Note the annoying, but otherwise irrelevant color error in the second panel.
Boise Ed said about this Argy WOW so many of you are reading way too much into this. First, Nancy didn’t lie to Luann. She said the book was for her and Bernice, Bernice mistook it for tax guides, and Nancy didn’t correct her. Second, there’s a possibility that Luann doesn’t care for that genre of books (I certainly didn’t AT ALL at that age, and even now, it isn’t something I typically read!) Third, Luann doesn’t have to be privy to everything Nancy and Bernice talk about. Bernice is practically a second daughter and knows the DeGroots very well. She and Nancy share an obvious like of several different things, including romance novels. I have individual conversations with each of my kids based on their personalities, their likes and dislikes, etc. I don’t have to share books or discussions with one child whom I know doesn’t care about the topic just because I shared it with their sibling(s). Nancy isn’t sharing pl*yboys or h*stlers for goodness sake. (Didn’t know if those titles get moderated or not.)Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 03, 2023