Today’s Final Jeopardy answer was, “The creator of this comic strip did not like its 1950 change in title, believing it suggested insignificance.” All three contestants got the correct question, and Stephanie Jass has tied the women’s record of seven consecutive wins. So far she has won $147,570.
P.S. Stephanie lost on Wednesday.
I’ll explain this later.
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Craig Schulz says there’s a new Peanuts movie coming, slated for the 50th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas in 2015.
Today’s Cul de Sac is the final installment of Richard Thompson’s exceptionally fine and whimsical comic strip.
With my ‘interesting’ eyes, I can relate to Friday’s Crankshaft.
Crankshaft is one of my favorite comic strips, but when there are flashbacks — tinted brown and framed as if in an old photo album — I have to ignore the “timeline disconnect” in the continuity. Ed Crankshaft is supposed to be a WWII vet who had played ball for the Toledo Mud Hens. For that to be possible he would be somewhere between 85 and 90 years old — too old to make it up the stairs to his apartment over the garage, let alone drive a school bus. His daughter and son-in-law witnessed the Kent State killings of students by the National Guard in 1970, so they have to be at least 60 or 62, and yet the family is portrayed as if Pam and Jeff are 50-55.
It’s a beautiful late summer Sunday, and before I get motivated to do my stretching routine and put some miles on my running shoes I’m enjoying a book I picked up last week at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. It’s the TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comic Books. The book came out a few years ago, and I was interested in it then, but now it’s a must-get item at a giveaway price of only $16. The audio player has a review by NPR’s Milo Miles, who provides some excellent background on the material.
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