I have loved comic strips for the longest time. While Peanuts is my first great love, and has been joined my affections in recent years by such superlative strips as Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, and the insightful and adorable artistic triumph that is Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts, it is Continue Reading
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Weekend pop art #3: What lies beneath the pop culture veneer?
Roaming across one of the most interesting, fun sites on the internet recently, Flavorewire.com, I came across a piece by Johnny Otis on the highly imaginative one-of-a-kind work of Brooklyn-based Jason Feeny, whose artistic modus operandi is to see, in the words of Otis, “what lies beneath the shiny veneer Continue Reading
You’ve made my life wonderful, Charlie Brown
One of the many joys of being so connected to so much information these days is that you come across amazing articles from all kinds of sources that may never have come your way otherwise. Such was the case with this wonderful look at the way Charlie Brown and Continue Reading
Comics: “Cheeky Weekly”
Like most kids, I got into comics in a big way growing up. But unlike most kids in Australia, instead of avidly following the adventures of Spiderman and Batman, I gravitated mainly to British comic books that celebrated a very idiosyncratic type of English humour. It obviously struck a Continue Reading