Recent Comments

1. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   I do not wish to think about Lillian’s knees

2. 3 months ago on Crankshaft

   So does Lizard Lil have an alibi as to where she was last night? Look at that face in the penultimate panel; she’s not too broken up over this.

3. 4 months ago on Crankshaft

   Now he’s comparing himself to Dorothy Parker. Sheesh.

4. 4 months ago on Crankshaft

   I support term limits for cartoonists

5. 5 months ago on Crankshaft

   Serious question: when he decided to “retire,” why did Batiuk end his better known and longer-tenured strip, Funky Winkerbean, and move those characters to Crankshaft, rather than vice-versa? The net effect would have been the same. Was 50 years of FW just a nice, round number to go out on? He could have folded Crankshaft, kept FW going and attempted Blondie-like longevity.

6. 5 months ago on Crankshaft

   Dan Davis has once again cut and pasted, this time from the character sketches John Byrne created for Funky Winkerbean’s Act III time jump (when Cindy was only 46): >

7. 6 months ago on Crankshaft

   Pete’s first order of business when he bought Montoni’s was to ditch the red aprons for puke-green ones that match the flannel shirt that he always used to wear.

8. 7 months ago on Crankshaft

   Frogmouth Harriet returns.

9. 9 months ago on Crankshaft

   Batiuk’s like Brian Wilson, he just wasn’t made for these times.

10. 11 months ago on Crankshaft

    “Gee, I never knew Davy Crockett was so fat!”