Comic Strip Stuff and Nonsense

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Some AI Nonsense

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Ron Winkler asked AI to imagine comic strip characters as real people and what we got was a few possibilities but mostly bunk. Beetle Bailey with eyes, Dagwood with glasses and no cowlicks, Cathy with a regular nose, the Danish Ferdnand with an English mustache, and more.

It seems Mad Cave is going all in on with comic books starring King Features Syndicate comic strip characters co-created by Alex Raymond. Bleeding Cool has the January 2027 solicitations from Mad Cave Studios that includes Secret Agent X-9, Flash Gordon, andRip Kirby comic books plus a hardcover reprinting of Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson‘s Secret Agent Corrigan.

Garfield Abides

Mathures Paul for The Telegraph celebrates 50 years of the of the Garfield comic strip and character in “Why Garfield endures — universal gags, a marketable cat and a strip still drawn every day.”

“Garfield, the lasagna-loving cat who hates Mondays, is in his 50th year if his story is counted from Jon, the comic strip Jim Davis began publishing in The Pendleton Times in Indiana in January 1976.”

“The commercial success came quickly. In November 1982, seven Garfield books were among the top 15 titles on The New York Times trade paperback best-seller list. That year the strip was running in 1,300 newspapers, and Paws, Inc., the company Davis formed to handle Garfield products,”

“Davis sold the rights to Garfield tos, and a couple of other people submit writing that I edit for use. I have long-time assistants who work on the drawing, inking, and coloring of the strip. I approve, sign, and date each strip before it goes out,’ he said.”

With a The Daily Cartoonistquote:

“Mike Peterson, who writes the Comic Strip of the Day feature for the Daily Cartoonist website, compared Garfield with long-running strips taken over by other artists after their creators’ deaths. ‘Garfield is still being produced,’ he said. ‘It’s still a fresh strip every day. It’s a new piece.’”

Whitewashing the Blackface

In connection with the recent row over Bo’s Bagels cartoonist Michael T. Gilbert dug up an old comic strip item that found some newspapers knew the then current practice of depicting Blacks in a degrading manner was not right. Some newspapers altered the Dick Tracy comic strip of Aug. and Sept. 1935.

Admittedly it was very few newspapers that didn’t run the Black caricature. Chester Gould‘s home paper The Chicago Tribune kept the caricature while sister paper The New York Daily News altered the visual.