Zippy on Jay Kennedy
Well, here’s something you don’t see everyday.
As our Elayne Riggs noted last March 16th (check it out on our search engine), King Features Syndicate Comics Editor Jay Kennedy died at the age of 50. Tributes were offered by cartoonists all over the world, but perhaps the most unusual and one of the most heartfelt appeared in today;s strip, by Bill Griffith:
It’s a little word-heavy, even for Zippy, so you might want to check out a larger version at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer‘s website, seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/zippy.asp
It’s trippy, surreal, beautifully rendered and found in newspapers such as The Guardian and The New York Press and magazines such as Maxim, but is still one of the webcomics world’s best secrets — until now. Nicholae Gurewitch, creator of 
If you think we’ve come a long way in butting out of people’s personal affairs, remember this: the last anti-miscegenation law prohibiting people of different races from marrying was repealed on November 7, 2000. Seven years later, an interracial couple breaks down one of the last barriers to a normal American family life: the newspaper family comic strip.
Some wag said 9/11 marked the death of irony. Well, that was certainly ironic.
Someone gave the Garfield statue near downtown Marion, IN’s Riverwalk a little too much love.
Oksner began drawing around 1940 for Funnies, Inc., an art service that supplied comic book material to a number of publishers, including Timely (now Marvel) Comics, who hired him to work on various strips throughout much of the decade.
