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Back in February 2020, I noted the passing of Norm Feuti's comic strip series, Retail.
Mr. Feuti had announced at that point his intent to archive the whole series online at some point. I'd expected the process to take longer. But apparently, the main work is done. There's topic-tagging yet to do, but that's not a high priority, and as someone who took years to finally manage to get every image file on my Flickr account properly tagged, I'm extremely reluctant to denounce anyone else's scheduling of such work.
Oh, and if you're wondering about the company that took over Grumbel's mall-space...?
Mr. Feuti had announced at that point his intent to archive the whole series online at some point. I'd expected the process to take longer. But apparently, the main work is done. There's topic-tagging yet to do, but that's not a high priority, and as someone who took years to finally manage to get every image file on my Flickr account properly tagged, I'm extremely reluctant to denounce anyone else's scheduling of such work.
Oh, and if you're wondering about the company that took over Grumbel's mall-space...?
For the Peanuts Fandom
Feb. 10th, 2021 10:05 amJean Schulz is interviewed on Q on CBC Radio today.
Charles Schulz' widow. Unveiling The Snoopy Show, which is going to Apple TV+.
Starting right now as I type this entry.
Update: Here's the URL for the interview while it lasts...
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q/clip/15823938-full-episode-jean-schulz-jason-moran-dan-hill
Charles Schulz' widow. Unveiling The Snoopy Show, which is going to Apple TV+.
Starting right now as I type this entry.
Update: Here's the URL for the interview while it lasts...
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q/clip/15823938-full-episode-jean-schulz-jason-moran-dan-hill
RIP: Mira Furlan and Hank Aaron
Jan. 22nd, 2021 12:10 pmI only saw Mrs. Furlan in person once, at San Diego, just as Babylon 5 was getting going. And that, from across a standing-room only hall. Her work on-screen was nonetheless stellar, in the best sense, in the role of Delenn.
I never got to see Mr. Aaron, but I read the Peanuts strip with Snoopy standing in for Mr. Aaron, taking his own share of hate mail as a fictional beagle on his own quest to break Babe Ruth's record, and later learned the fuller story. Mr. Schulz was clearly a fan of Mr. Aaron, from what I saw in print.
Two people worthy of respect. Now both gone.
I never got to see Mr. Aaron, but I read the Peanuts strip with Snoopy standing in for Mr. Aaron, taking his own share of hate mail as a fictional beagle on his own quest to break Babe Ruth's record, and later learned the fuller story. Mr. Schulz was clearly a fan of Mr. Aaron, from what I saw in print.
Two people worthy of respect. Now both gone.
RIP Retail: the Comic Strip
Feb. 22nd, 2020 11:28 pmSo I got to see the last installment of Retail(: the Comic Strip) today, apparently. Because Sunday comic strips are always published on Saturdays in Canadian newspapers. Even when there's a Sunday edition of that particular paper.
It's...anticlimactic. And unsentimental, too.
Perhaps that shouldn't have been a surprise.
It's...anticlimactic. And unsentimental, too.
Perhaps that shouldn't have been a surprise.
COMICS: Retail is Ending
Jan. 20th, 2020 08:29 amWord from Norm Feuti himself:
http://www.normfeuticartoons.com/blog/retail-is-ending/
Well, this means one less thing for me to be able to learn from on a continuing basis...
http://www.normfeuticartoons.com/blog/retail-is-ending/
Well, this means one less thing for me to be able to learn from on a continuing basis...
COMICS: On this day in 1950...
Oct. 2nd, 2019 07:25 pmRemember this one? Seventy-nine years ago in about a dozen US newspapers...Shermy, Patty...and Good Ol' Charlie Brown...
A Charlie Brown-ish Note
Jun. 28th, 2019 10:35 amI didn't know this was in the works at Centrepointe:
https://apt613.ca/youre-a-good-man-charlie-brown-at-centrepointe/
https://apt613.ca/youre-a-good-man-charlie-brown-at-centrepointe/
Non Sequitur vs. Trumpists?
Feb. 11th, 2019 08:35 pmLeaving these links about the comic strip Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for you to look over.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pennsylvania-newspaper-drops-cartoonist-over-vulgar-trump-message-n970171
https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2019/02/10
I'm not sure that I can see what the fuss is about.
Wondering if it printed in last Saturday's Toronto Star hardcopy edition intact. (The Star prints Sunday strips on Saturdays as a rule.)
Follow-up: I just checked. Confirmed. It got through Toronto Star editorial scrutiny.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pennsylvania-newspaper-drops-cartoonist-over-vulgar-trump-message-n970171
https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2019/02/10
I'm not sure that I can see what the fuss is about.
Wondering if it printed in last Saturday's Toronto Star hardcopy edition intact. (The Star prints Sunday strips on Saturdays as a rule.)
Follow-up: I just checked. Confirmed. It got through Toronto Star editorial scrutiny.
Newspaper Comics Mutation Question
Jan. 3rd, 2019 05:51 amThis is actually appearing in newspapers? Or is Pearls Before Swine now an online-only series?
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2019/01/03
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2019/01/03
About Norm Feuti's "Retail"
Jun. 26th, 2018 05:41 amIs anyone else getting a "403 Forbidden" this morning?
Thought Experiments in Newspaper Comics
Jul. 2nd, 2017 08:58 amI have to wonder if - with today's installment of Candorville - Lemont (and series author Darrin Bell) isn't being a tad too optimistic with panel five about the indigenous peoples of North America if the American Revolution hadn't come off as it did in reality. We'd still have people who thought like Sir John A. Macdonald and Duncan Campbell Scott and Philip Sheridan did, although the specific people in power enforcing such atrocities as settlers' law would likely be different.
As for the rest of it?
As for the rest of it?
Schulzian Anniversaries
Oct. 2nd, 2016 08:52 amReminders went out that today is the anniversary of the first published strip in Charles Schulz' comic strip Peanuts.
I find myself in want of a root beer right now.
(Also, wishing I could've thanked Mr. Schulz directly for his works.)
More on other topics as the day progresses, hopefully...
I find myself in want of a root beer right now.
(Also, wishing I could've thanked Mr. Schulz directly for his works.)
More on other topics as the day progresses, hopefully...
Question about comic strips
Mar. 26th, 2016 08:03 amI've noticed that Sinfest and Doonesbury have dedicated fandom groups/feeds here on LJ. Does the same go for Norm Feuti's Retail?
Anyone?
Anyone?
Comics: Today's Non Sequitur...
Jan. 13th, 2016 09:07 am...has an interesting take on cafés, reminding me of high school in some ways.
More on other topics as the day wears on...
More on other topics as the day wears on...
Fixed as of tonight.
Tried to check today's installment at retailcomic.com. Nothing. On either Firefox or Safari. Looked at the comic strip's Facebook page, and apparently Feuti and co. have been coping with website glitches for a while now.
Maybe it'll be fixed by the time I get back from the day job today.
Maybe it'll be fixed by the time I get back from the day job today.
I can relate. Some days, more so than others. Even though I take public transit everywhere I can...
http://retailcomic.com/comics/september-3-2014/
http://retailcomic.com/comics/september-3-2014/
