Yesterday’s Jeopardy! had this clue that I was pleased to see a younger person answering correctly.
Category: Cartooning
Crumb’s Off and Strumming
Monday Stuff
The official Sunday Snowzilla total for the town was 22″. It’s continued snowing today, so I don’t know what the final accumulation will be. It’s light, fluffy snow, and good for throwing with the snowblower.
There was a National Cartoonists Society Zoom call this evening. I had a chance to chat with Colleen in a “break-out session.” Nobody else on the call mentioned Scott Adams, so I didn’t either.
Two of My Favorite Things
At the NCS conference last August, Colleen Doran and I discussed how, generally, comic book people are more familiar with comic strips than comic strip people are familiar with comic books. Today’s Jumble has an exception to that generality.
Boomer boy that I am, Marvel Comics from the Sixties are one of my favorite things. Another is, of course, the Beatles.
LBJ was notorious for strong-arming legislators into voting his way. What if he had been a flat-out authoritarian president, like Trump? Could he have kept the Beatles out of America?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/could-president-deploy-wartime-law-203749200.html
A Guy Who Can Draw, on the Politics of a Guy Who Couldn’t Draw
Artist Bill Sienkiewicz, who began his career drawing comic books, talks about his interaction with Scott Adams.
Deadbert
mih called to tell me the news that Scott Adams has died. On his deathbed, Scott accepted Jesus Christ.
This is a screen grab of Trump’s statement regarding Adams. Of course, the reason for Trump’s praise is that Adams liked and respected him.
