The Daily Comics Review: editorial comics

Saturday, April 20, 2013

The Daily Comics Review: Saturday Specials

by Hal Bent

Saturday Specials is where I envision a bit of a potpourri of comics: whatever strikes my fancy as Saturday is well-renowned as the weakest day of newspaper comics, often recapping the week, highlighting an event on Friday, or just mailing it in prior to Sunday. With that, time to get to the Saturday Specials:

Bliss by Harry Bliss:

I had to include one from the funny pages: I hope one of my regular readers can help me out here with this one. I spent ten minutes reading it and had no freaking clue what the heck was going on here. Phish shirt, hippie guy and gal, and a dog...all hitch-hiking...in Vermont. I don't get it. I really don't get it. It's well drawn, great depiction of the Green Mountains of Vermont, but I feel like either it is, or I am, missing something here.

Off the usual track, where this was an unusual week, and instead of posting on Monday or Friday, I was glued to the news (online and television) with the horror in Boston with the Marathon bombing and all-day manhunt. That said, some editorial cartoons from this past week seemed to be appropriate here:

EDITORIAL COMIC: Attack Runners by Pat Bagley:

EDITORIAL COMIC: Boston Tragedy by Christopher Weyant:

EDITORIAL COMIC: Inspirational Marathon Runners by Steve Breen

EDITORIAL COMIC: Boston Bombing by Michael Ramirez:

A Lot of Really Strange Comics

Watch Your Head 3/20/09

Watch Your Head borrows some style from Mark Trail today and brings us quite possibly the worlds first talking crotch on the funny pages. The truly disturbing thing is that from this angle, there is no way to tell what part of this man's anatomy is doing the berating.

Ben 3/20/09

Two lovers, in the last gasp before oblivion, reaching as hard as they can, just to express their undying affection and devotion. The moment, ruined by two stupid little boys.

Dinosaur Comics 3/19/09

We've been struggling with branding here at the DCR lately so maybe this is a good way to ask for your suggestions? What nickname would you give our little blog here? Bad people reviewing bad comics? Stupid crappy crap stuff? The Snark Department?

Mike Peters 3/20/09

We don't ever do editorial cartoons, largely because they're not funny. One sure-fire way to get noticed though is to cover a very famous person in an over-sized condom. Hilarious visual!

Medium Large 3/20/09

There's only one true Portland and it's the one I live in! That's right, fuck you Maine! This Tom guy is an idiot too, no one would ever make this mistake. EVER.