Top Ten Comics from Sunday, Jan. 25th Roanoke Times: Get Fuzzy Finally Comes in First

Greetings to our blog readers in Estonia, Wales and India.

The images above are of 1) Jeb Bush (for "Doonesbury) ; 2) Danny DeVito (the boss) and the late Andy Kaufman on the '70s sitcom "Taxi" (for "Pearls Before Swine) and 3) Warren Beatty as "Dick Tracy" (for "Funky Winkerbean").

Kudos to Stephan Pastis of "Pearls Before Swine" for having the guts and gumption to make fun of his boss comics syndicator John Glynn!

"Get Fuzzy" usually takes places second place in our comics survey, but today, it finally made it to the top slot.

Here is our top ten from the latest Sunday edition of "The Roanoke Times:"

1) Get Fuzzy

2) Doonesbury (made fun of Jeb Bush)

3) Pearls Before Swine (made fun of Big Boss Man)

4) Speed Bump

5) Dilbert

6) Funky Winkerbean (featured 'Dick Tracy')

7) Agnes

8) Garfield

9) Jump Start

10) Red and Rover (featured Snoopy from "Peanuts"!)

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Quote of the Week- Roy Lichtenstein

There is a poster of one of the late Roy Lichtenstein's last paintings "Tintin Reading" from 1994 featuring Herge's legendary Belgian comic book adventurer and his dog Fluffy.

Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was among the pop artists of the 1960s which included the late Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, who is still alive at 80. The American artist, who also completed complex sculptures, used comic strip panels for much of his visual art. Most of theses panels looked like ones from comic strips like "Flash Gordon," "Dick Tracy" and "Mary Worth" (which started in 1939, and is still in many newspapers today) that focused on dramatic elements and storylines rather than 'Charlie Brown, Lucy and the football" gags.

Among Lichtenstein's famous paintings (ranging from 1958-1996) are "Look Mickey," "Drowning Girl," "Whaam!," "Grrr" and "I Know....Brad."

This quote from the great artist, who is perhaps my personal favorite, ever since I saw an exhibit of his work in Montreal in 1994, is certainly one we would not expect from comic actors like Woody Allen or the late Andy Kaufman:

"I don't have anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting."

NOTE: We may be on a slight hiatus since we are going on a family vacation, but stay tuned for my Worst Person of the Year entry as well as a look at my top ten favorite films of 2010 before we get too much into 2011.

All My Friends' Blogs

Since we have been on hiatus for ten years until today, I thought I would give a rundown of some hip entries on my friends' blogs.


For starters, New Yorker Phil Nugent has a great story about a film project that the late Andy Kaufman could never quite get off the ground at his blog The Phil Nugent Experience http://philnugentexperience.blogspot.com

Political Pundit Randall H. Miller, a conservative who voted for Obama, has a great mock interview with Sarah Palin in which the Alaskan governor cites Ronald Reagan as her favorite founding father http://randallhmiller.com

Chris Knight of Reidsville, NC, has an interesting post about a man built a real-life mechanical exoskeleton, like the one seen in "Aliens" in Palin's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska http://theknightshift.blogspot.com (see links)

And, my very good friend and fellow movie fanatic Moviezzz has a great review of the new dvd of Chuck Jones' "Tom and Jerry" cartoons at his blog http://talkingmoviezzz.blogspot.com (see links)