4 my Mudgez: The Dark Side of Mary Worth
Another Monkey (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
A parody of the April 12, 2008 Mary Worth : If you're not a regular reader of The Comics Curmudgeon - well, why the hell not?
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This week’s comic page changes
The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Here are the comic pages that I’ve found this last week. The Detroit News has added Keith Knight's The Knight Life to it's line up. The News Tribune, (Tacoma, WA) is adding Zits, Baby Blues, and Pooch Cafe. To make room, Mary Worth, B.C. and World of Wonder are being dropped. The paper said the change was [...]
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Mother's Day For the Accidental Non-Mom
BlogHer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Years ago a friend of mine frequently wore a t-shirt that had one of those retro comic strip characters - a woman right out of Mary Worth, maybe - holding her hand up to her mouth to stifle a scream. The thought bubble next to her head said, "Oh my God! I forgot to have children!"
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Ken Ernst, Walt Kelly and John T. McCutcheon Photos
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
... Cartoonist Ken Ernst sketches Ruth Schmitt whom he selected to represent a new character in his MARY WORTH comic strip. Ms. Schmitt was one of the eight "Badger Beauties" at the University of Wisconsin. According to fellow BB Marilyn Moevs Helminiak : “When I was Badger Beauty in 1947, I thought that was going to be my ‘fifteen minutes of fame,' and after fifty-six years, it has proven to...
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43 Lame Earth Day Comix
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
It was a surprise to see that so many cartoonists would all do special Earth Day cartoons, more of a surprise that so many of them were so unfunny and less than inspiring, but the biggest surprise of all was how many comic strips there still are in print. I mean, Mary Worth was almost dead when I was a kid, and Mandrake the Magician? No wonder nobody under 30 reads papers anymore,
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Cliche Comic Character Nominations
Foma* (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
Every year about this time I run a series of tournament parodies about the funny pages. Two years ago Gil Thorp stole the crown in the National Crappy Comics Competition™ from top contenders BC and Mary Worth. Last year Bucky Katt ran away with best of show in the National Coolest Comics Character Contest . This year I'm throwing open nominations onto the floor for the National Corniest Cliche...
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