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FunkyWatch: December's Most Depressing Strips
FunkyWatch: December's Most Depressing Strips
FunkyWatch: December's Most Depressing Strips
Over the past 40 years, Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean has transitioned from a gag-a-day comic strip about a high school to an ongoing chronicle of pure, abject misery. Thanks to the commentary on Josh Fruhlinger’s Comics Curmudgeon, I am now completely obsessed with it, which is why I spend a little time every month rounding up its finest examples of crushing despair. The end of the year is always a time for reflection, and for me, that came today when I logged into Comics Kingdom and reupped for another year of the service that sends me each day's Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft strip first thing in the morning, thus ensuring that I start off each day by experiencing the worst of the human condition. So as we dive into this month's strips and all the reminders that death is the only respite from the horrors of life, keep in mind that I have once again done this to myself.
A Career-Spanning Conversation With Berkeley Breathed
A Career-Spanning Conversation With Berkeley Breathed
A Career-Spanning Conversation With Berkeley Breathed
Ever since Bloom County became a sensation in the early '80s, Berkeley Breathed has had an incredibly varied career. He followed Bloom County's initial success with two more popular comic strips, Outland and Opus; he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning; he wrote and illustrated best-selling children's books; he adapted his own stories into a pair of animated TV specials, and he provided art for various environmental and animal-wellfare charities. In recent years he's shifted his primary focus to film (production art and original projects), while also overseeing IDW's comprehensive collected editions of his strips. He recently teamed with IDW again for Berkeleyworks, a retrospective volume collecting a number of his paintings, sketches, and illustrations – and last month, he made a rare convention appearance, playing to a packed room at San Diego Comic-Con. ComicsAlliance spoke with Breathed about his career in cartooning, his work in other media, and his upcoming projects.
IDW Announces Silver-Age Batman Comic Strip Hardcover Collection
IDW Announces Silver-Age Batman Comic Strip Hardcover Collection
IDW Announces Silver-Age Batman Comic Strip Hardcover Collection
Back in September, IDW announced it was partnering with DC Entertainment to publish hardcover collections of classic Superman comic strips that have never been seen since their initial newspaper runs. Today, IDW announced that Batman's Silver Age comic-strip adventures are getting a similar treatment in 2014, with the first volume collecting two years' worth of comics by creators Whitney Ellsworth
Superman’s 1942 Crossover With ‘Flash Gordon,’ ‘Dick Tracy’ and More
Superman’s 1942 Crossover With ‘Flash Gordon,’ ‘Dick Tracy’ and More
Superman’s 1942 Crossover With ‘Flash Gordon,’ ‘Dick Tracy’ and More
If you've been keeping up with Superman lately, then you've seen writer Chris Roberson make a few references to the idea that Superman himself is a comic book reader. To be fair, I don't think we've ever seen Clark Kent duck out of the Daily Planet on Wednesday to get the new books, but the idea of Superman as a fan of sequential art isn't a new one...
Preview: ‘Captain America: The 1940’s Newspaper Strip’ #3 [Exclusive]
Preview: ‘Captain America: The 1940’s Newspaper Strip’ #3 [Exclusive]
Preview: ‘Captain America: The 1940’s Newspaper Strip’ #3 [Exclusive]
Karl Kesel's Captain America comic strip series turned its share of heads when it launched as a daily digital comic strip earlier this year. Not only was the new project presented as a collection of rediscovered comic strips from the '40s, it ran as a daily adventure series for 85 consecutive days (with deluxe material on Sundays) at Marvel...
15 Suicidally Depressing Newspaper Comic Strips
15 Suicidally Depressing Newspaper Comic Strips
15 Suicidally Depressing Newspaper Comic Strips
Normally, we'd leave this sort of thing to the great Josh Fruhlinger of The Comics Curmudgeon, but DC's upcoming "Wednesday Comics" prompted us to take a look at the newspaper comics page and have a few laughs. Instead, we were surprised to find strips so relentlessly soul-crushing that even Chris Ware would be jealous...