Cartoonists With Attitude

The beauty of Richard Thompson drawing Alice, of his great comic strip Cul de Sac.



A reader alerted me to this uncommonly thoughtful essay naming Tom the Dancing Bug the 7th best comic of the "aughts," finishing just ahead of that talentless hack (sarcasm) Chris Ware.  It's not clear what comics finished 1 through 6 — maybe those slots haven't been revealed yet, but it's hard to imagine what could possibly have finished ahead of Tom the Dancing Bug, The Best Comic Strip Ever ™!

"It’s a good thing Charley’s not a bonobo, or he’d be looking at hard time instead of just a long walk."
-fritzoid, on the uclick site

Charley the Australopithecine

Kudos to whoever at Salon headlined this week's comic "Travels With Charley," a reference to the John Steinbeck book describing his travels with his dog Charley. Charley was actually named after Steinbeck's dog.

This week's comic about the particle collider was so abhorrent to the physical laws of nature, that it sent ripples back in time and replaced it with this incomprehensible nonsense about DR. HANNIGAN AND DR. BAHAR'S PARTICLE COLLIDER PROBABILITLY SHIFTER.

This article, from the New York Times a few months ago, has to be one of the weirdest I ever read.

I wonder if this could be put to practical use.

A little while ago, I did a "How to Draw Doug" installment in a Super-Fun-Pak, and then followed with a blog post showing an older "How to Draw Doug."  I knew this older one wasn't the first one I'd done, but I couldn't find an earlier one in any Super-Fun-Paks.

I finally remembered where I first drew a "How to Draw Doug":  It was in a Tom the Dancing Bug comic book, published in 1995.  The comic book was a compilation of published strips, but I drew up original material for the inside front cover, including this:

Looking back over this week's comic (God-Man, in "Lapsed!"), I realized that it could be a miniature, comic strip version of the Coen brothers' "A Serious Man."

GOD-MAN in "Lapsed!"

The KC Free Press lists some ways to make the Winter Olympics even better, and includes Tom the Dancing Bug's suggestions from the previous games in Salt Lake City.  This only serves to remind me:  It's been four years!  Where's Team Snowball Fighting, Olympic Committee?