Lio by Mark Tatulli for March 13, 2015

I see a plug for Heart.

Let’s see… we got Hagar the Horrible, Dagwood Bumpstead, Charlie Brown, one of the “B.C.” cavemen, and… Heart from “Heart of the City”?

Seems too tall to be Heart. My first thought was Hi from Hi & Lois.

These are Old Zombie Cartoons.…Blondie (Dagwood): Chic Young, died 1973Hagar and Hi & Lois: Dik Browne, died 1989.Peanuts (Charlie Brown): Charles Schulz, died 2000.B.C.: Johnny Hart, died 2007.

now those are classic zombies

Beware the Zombie Comics, Ishy! Don’t ever let them infect our Lio!Mark, live long and prosper!

Notice that Ishy is the only one scared. I thought he would be use to this by now.

Thank goodness the Family Circus kids aren’t there. That would have been really scary.

This is a rerun from 2010.

Can’t unsee the Charlie Brown zombie….scarred for life….

Peanuts is not a zombie. It’s in reruns. Schulz is the only one who’s ever drawn Peanuts strips. That’s very different from zombie strips, which are a thing.

Yikes!

Big difference between a true zombie strip and one that just appears in reruns.

if ishi is scared, look out. this might get ugly.

“Calamari”.A high priced name for fried sliced garden hose…

Dagwood looks really hungry!

I’ll stick up for the old guys. As was pointed out. Peanuts is reruns and that is good. I’d hate to be in a world in which Peanuts was unknown. As for the Zombies, it depends. It depends on who takes over the strip. Sometimes it can revitalize a strip. Andy Capp has been funnier than it has been in years when the current guys took over. Yes, they compete for space with new up and coming strips in the newspapers. But that will only be an issue for a few more years. There is plenty of space on a web page.

Huh. At first, I didn’t even notice the zombies were other comic characters. Guess it’s been a long week. Thanks, all.

Agree that most of those characters are from ancient strips, but Hart of the City hardly qualifies as and ancient strip.

I noticed that the only time anyone mentions comic strips as a pop culture icon is in the comic strips.