Recent Comments

1. over 9 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Yeah, Madison Avenue damns people for turning their backs on the homeless, the hungry, the naked, the sick. It helps to actually know the material. As for GILGAMESH, it is the farthest thing from a porno novel and, contrary to opinions stating otherwise, Gilgamesh is an historical person not an hysterical one which last can be said of all too many commentators across the web. Anonymity gives courage to cowards. A friend calls you the “annonymice.”

2. almost 12 years ago on Tarzan

   “Humans greatest creation error was the need to ingest living matter for energy. Because of this we can never evolve beyond just being human.”

   Get off your high horse. Plants are and were every bit as alive as is/was a chunk of cow or pig.

3. over 12 years ago on Li'l Abner

   Every young man will one day be an old one. How many of them will have stories to tell? Definitely not the ones with attitude. I brought Grim Natwick to Toronto for the first time in 1980. “He is senile,” young guys told me. Grim turned 90 in Toronto. He lived to be 100. He created Betty Boop for the Max Fleischer animation studio. He was principal artist on the character of SNOW WHITE for Walt Disney. What I did not know until last summer was that he was the man the art school in Vienna, that only accepted one new student a year, chose over Adolf Hitler. Those young guys that dismissed him as senile missed an awful lot.

4. over 12 years ago on Li'l Abner

   I do hope we are not going to be stuck here for long. I loved this strip as a kid. Discovering these reprints has been a source of real excitement. Capp was a born story teller.

5. over 12 years ago on Annie

   Thanks for the link. That song is referenced in Buster Keaton’s silent film, THE NAVIGATOR. I have always wondered how it sounds. The way it is sung here is on the money.

6. over 12 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.htm

7. almost 13 years ago on Alley Oop

   You are saying the gays are right all the time?

8. almost 13 years ago on Alley Oop

   This is why I don’t bother with comments on my site. It is a disease all across the web. People parade their “coolness,” “hipness,” “smartness” but rarely address what is on the table. That applies to everything from the comic pages to editorials. On THE PHANTOM when I got caught in a story arc that left me breathless I watched reader after reader complain about what was actually great storytelling (the run where the Phantom’s wife was thought murdered). Similarily I will read a well written editorial followed by a river of comments that are not worth spending time on.

9. almost 13 years ago on Tarzan

   In this case the “victim” would never remotely understand the reason. As for murder we have in our time seen wildlife murdered on a scale that beggars the imagination. If those murderers were to find themselves on the receiving scale of jungle justice things might change for the better,

10. about 13 years ago on Tarzan

    “i carry a folding knife which i clip to my shorts. It makes me feel alittle safer, and deep down inside i feel and look alittle more like tarzan! :-) everyday and everyway!”

    You are not Tarzan. Life is not a comic strip. When an animal senses fear it attacks. You are radiating both fear and foolishness. Ditch the knife. It will get you killed.