Cliche Day, Belated
by John Glynn
Well, yesterday was National Cliche Day and I missed it. But I'm not going to let it get me down because there's no need to cry over spelled milk. M-I-L-K FWIW.
Interesting enough, today's cliche blog comic is The Elderberries. The Elderberries was originally by Phil Frank and Joe Troise and then Corey Pandolph after Phil had passed away.
And Corey is heck of an artist so nothing against him, but I think Phil was really one of the great comic artists of all time. Phil had an incredibly skilled line that knew how to use negative space and just the right amount of detail. I loved his lettering too. You don't see lowercase text used very often in newspaper comics.
You should go check out his work. In addition to The Elderberries, Phil had a gangbusters resume that included the local and much-celebrated comic Farley that he did for The San Francisco Chronicle from 1975 to 2007. And more importantly, he was a prince of a man. Viva P. Frank!