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The New Yorker’s Cartoon Slide Show Tribute To Edward Frascino
The Comic Strip That Originated as an Old-Time Radio Comedy
In remembrance of Edward FrascinoThe New Yorker has posted a gallery of Frascino cartoons.
Okay so it isn’t the book, but Commonplace Fun Facts takes a very thorough look at the history of the Old Time Radio show Lum and Abner. But then the book came out before the Lum and Abner comic strip appeared and “The Comedy Genius of Lum and Abner” covers that and the strip’s cartoonist Donnie Pitchford, who is interviewed and otherwise helps the author with Lum and Abner trivia.
In 2011, working with the Lauck heirs and the online First Arkansas News, Pitchford launched the Lum and Abner comic strip and an accompanying audio adaptation originally created to make the feature accessible to blind fans. When First Arkansas News folded in 2013, the strip continued through its own website and also appeared in print in Arkansas, eventually leading to book collections.
Pitchford’s comics unfold in serialized continuities much like the original radio show. He occasionally adapts actual scripts, while also creating new situations rooted in how the characters would naturally react.
Or overreact.
Sam Nelson’s Favorite xkcd Comic
Sam Nelson for Polygon tells us “One iconic xkcd comic has lived rent free in my head for 18 years.”
Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd [link added] has plenty of sweet, goofy, and clever strips that appeal to anyone. I <a href="https://comicvibe.com/why-we-love-watching-robots-fail/” title=”Why We Love Watching Robots Fail”>love silly ones like “Alternate Energy Revolution” – a mashup of War of the Worlds and Don Quixote – and the ambitious extra-large strips that show the scale of time and space or the dramatic impacts of climate change. But I often feel like I’m not getting as much out of the series as I could be.
But while most of Munroe’s highly specific humor doesn’t apply to me, there’s one strip that has lived rent-free in my head for 18 years…
The End of The Hustler Files (Adult Content)
Dan Collins, who we all know from Looks Good on Paper, has been cartooning for decades and one of his favorite clients was Hustler magazine. Earlier this year he started a Substack featuring his old Hustler cartoons, but…
It was a fun experiment to see if I could put together a new Substack newsletter in a short amount of time, and also determine if there was an audience for the old cartoons I drew for Hustler, etc. Sadly, there wasn’t much interest, but it isn’t hard to understand; people have changed quite a lot since those days.
Collins is letting his The Hustler Files (adults only) drift to The Wayback Machine.
That’s fine. I wasn’t that interested in putting in a whole lot of work doing two Stacks unless there was a big demand, and my original Stack Cartoons by Collins [link added] is doing OK, and I have fun publishing it.
Past Comics in Your Future
Is Diss a System? The Lost Judge Comics That Shaped Milt Gross
The 457th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium presents Paul C. Tumey: Is Diss a System? The Lost Judge Comics That Shaped Milt Gross on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026 at 7pm EDT. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM.
In 1930s America, the name “Milt Gross” was a household word — appearing in newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, and everyday conversation. His 1926 book Nize Baby catapulted him to fame, striking a nerve in both the immigrant experience and the absurdism in popular culture that peaked between the two world wars. Paul C. Tumey’s The Art of Milt Gross Volume 1: Mastering Cartoon Pantomime – Judge 1923-24 examines a pivotal period when Gross worked as a staff cartoonist at The New York World while moonlighting at Judge magazine.
email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.
Ian Fleming’s James Bond Signature Comic Strip CollectionVolume One
John Freeman at downthetubes brings news of another series of James Bond comic strip collections:
If you missed out on the publisher’s previous collections of the stunning James Bond strip, and even if you didn’t, then this looks like a great new series. The first volume features the first seven full-length James Bond newspaper comic strip adventures, drawn by acclaimed artist John McLusky, that helped inspire the James Bond cinematic universe.
Ian Fleming’s James Bond Signature Comic Strip CollectionVolume One, in book and comic shops from on 27th February 2027, includes the first three years of “James Bond” newspaper strips first published in the Daily Express, betweenJuly 1958 until May 1961: full-length stories of “Casino Royale”, “Live and Let Die”, “Moonraker”, “Diamonds Are Forever”, “From Russia, with Love”, “Dr. No” and “Goldfinger”.
