Covered was a blog from the late 00s where artists would redraw famous comic book covers and they’d be shown side by side.

I never managed to submit anything but I was reading along, I loved it. This one, a cover of Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories 211, was my fave.

Feels great to see some downsides of edgelordery of the eighties music scene being explicitly acknowledged:

“We thought the major battles over equality and inclusiveness had been won, and society would eventually express that, so we were not harming anything with contrarianism, shock, sarcasm or irony. If anything, we were trying to underscore the banality, the everyday nonchalance toward our common history with the atrocious, all while laboring under the tacit mistaken notion that things were getting better.”

Comics I vs I

One Outs was based on this season 🤷🏻‍♀️

Olivia Jaimes has been knocking it out of the part the last few years and Nancy is, as far as I know, the best of the currently-running daily strips. It’s more similar to Peanuts than to Bushmiller’s version of Nancy, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Here is a gem with Fritzi struggling with the overwhelm of todo lists.

Posted on Monday 3 Jan 2022. 1,263 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.