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Auntie Clockwise Free

Fully retired but Professor Emeritus at the Emily Carr University Of Art And Design.

Recent Comments

  1. 3 days ago on Nancy Classics

    Ernie Bushmiller thought of himself as the “Lawrence Welk” of comic strips”.

    Wikipedia will help you with this mystery.

  2. 3 days ago on Nancy Classics

    To my great surprise, I learn that Fritzi is in a marching band!

  3. 3 days ago on Dick Tracy

    Rice Crispies I remember but I have never before heard of Rice Krinkles.

  4. 3 days ago on Dick Tracy

    When on the move, Sam & Dick seem to ball up their fists as in panel #3 today, maybe moreso Dick than Sam.

    I am enjoying the artwork for all three panels but the storyline is so far away from my capacities for understanding, I don’t even try to figure out what is happening.

  5. 4 days ago on Bozo

    Also today, BOZO has a Hover Hat in every strip.

    This kind of stuff makes my day!

  6. 4 days ago on Dick Tracy

    Agreed. I thought that was the case when I first viewed the first panel.

    Tracy’s head is drawn smaller there than it need be.

  7. 4 days ago on Nancy Classics

    Come January, my Barber gives a free new calendar to all his customers.

    A Pharmacy I deal with gives its customers a free calendar for the new year.

  8. 5 days ago on Nancy Classics

    … and I did find the strip on Go Comics!

  9. 5 days ago on Nancy Classics

    Thank you for the clarity on this.

    I have never encountered the name before today!

  10. 5 days ago on Dick Tracy

    I like the connection of panel #1 with panel #3 and Tracy using the hat rack.

    Little bits of drawing about light & shadow don’t bother me.

    The visual arts logic of composition sometimes lack precise connentions with the story here, or with memories of Chester Gould’s mastery of both verbal and nonverbal media.