...and I'd love to share it with you! Arriola is lowkey one of the most-revered cartoonists to ever work in the medium, but he simply never gets the credit he deserves on a larger scale (imo). Outside of the excellent site maintained by superfan Jim Guida (Gordocomics.com), and occasional entries on comics blogs, there's just not enough Gordo love online.

I'll be sharing my Gordo collection -- books, comics, strips, original art, merchandise, links to Gordo content on the web, and more! -- and doing my best to paint a picture of what makes Gordo so delightful and Arriola so important.

Please enjoy Gordo Y Más, and feel free to send feedback, comments, or ideas for the kinds of posts you'd most like to see.

Gordo Y Más : https://gordoymas.blogspot.com/

-Jon Morris

Hi. I love comic strips, and I often read them on GoComics. I remember a year or two ago stumbling across one which specifically ran in December (may have started in November, I don't remember) that was Christmassy. I think it was something about an elf saving Christmas. I believe different stories ran for a few different years, but that it was likely no longer currently running. Unfortunately, this is all I remember. It seems it is no longer on GoComics and I'm having trouble pulling anything out of Google with just these loose details. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about?

For me,it was seeing a minor character with dwarfism,who later works at the comic store. He disappeared in,like 2012,but I still add him in fics. (Though there are quite a few disabled characters in the strip,one major who died 5 years ago from a dementia) Yeah,I see why people dislike FW,but I like it except for the Wally being a POW for 10 years and the time-traveling janitor at the very last year. Also,seeing a developmental disability in For Better or For Worse with April's friend Shannon (She's okay,but is too sappy). Here's the little person:

Any disabled comic characters you like for random reasons?

In 2005,pre-time skip,an easily-offended woman thought he was a \"young boy\"--he was 27 at the time. The whole storyline on John's obscenity lawsuit was based on an actual case from 2000 or 2002 that was ridiculous and unfair.

Hey folks! This seems like a good place to mention that Levy's Law, James Schumeister's police-sitcom strip that ran from 1979 through 1985, is now available in a completely complete compendium—The Whole Megillah.

It's extra-complete because it also contains the complete run of Schumeister's obscure first syndicated strip, The Great Atomic Aftermath and Fresh Fruit Festival, as well as three different unsold strips.

It's 1001 pages of fun and laughs! Check it out at the link below. All proceeds go directly to the artist.

Levy's Law at Lulu

I'm stumped tbh

Currently, the Comics Kingdom seems to go back the furthest, however that is only back to the 1970s. I did find a collected book on Amazon, but 1) it's outta print, 2) it's $100+ used, and 3) that's without the cover and damaged spine and edges:

Blondie: The Courtship and Wedding - Complete Daily Comics 1930-1933 (Library of American comics) Hardcover – October 19, 2010

I don't mind paying for stuff, but there's a certain threshold where it just becomes ridiculous. And if you think that one was bad, wait until you see the next book. Then, the third one's apparently so rare, there just aren't any used ones. Anyways, if anybody has these books, or knows a better site for them (okay, any site would be better than Amazon, but you know what I mean), or just the strips; any help would be appreciated.

Hello! I'm looking for an old sherman's lagoon where they go on vacation to Mexico and immediately get kicked out after Sherman speaks Spanish. Does anyone have any ideas on a good place to look or anything? Thank you so much for any help!

I’m looking for a newspaper comic my dad had pinned to the fridge forever but it got lost when we moved. I think it was two panels the first was a haggard looking man in a suit with a briefcase coming home and there’s chaos racket going on in the background. His thought bubble says “There’s only one thing worse than coming home to a house with two screaming boys” The next panel the kids give him a loving hug and with a huge smile on his face he thinks “And that’s coming home to a house without two screaming boys” This was very apt for our household when my brother and I were kids and until we were 10 ish we always greeted dad home with a hug

I’m hoping to get another copy for him as a Thank You for being an awesome dad but I haven’t been able to find it anywhere. I asked him and he’s 90% sure it came from The Hamilton Spectator If anyone can find it and send me a link or even a proper digital copy I would be eternally grateful Thank you

While there used to be Funky Winkerbean prints on CafePress on mugs and shirts,the site apparently took them off a few days ago (I checked and the prints are gone,but they were from 2002,before the 2007 time-skip). Now,the only merch I can find are three,overpriced (vintage) Harry L. Dinkle shirts (an oversized shirt and two sweatshirts) and those books and band posters! There's a Crankshaft shirt,mug,or apron you can buy that are new,but it's not the same. Although in November,I got a 1987 sweatshirt advertising the FW play made for high schools,and it's the best sweater. If I look up merch,I get either the books,no results,or SoSF (It's okay to dislike and criticize a comic,but Stuck Funky IMO crosses too many lines) articles. Though my second favorite,FBorFW,does have tons of merch,including Lizzie's bunny and stickers. Does anyone else have this problem with their favorite comics? Sorry for my complaint.

Would love to read this comic if a digital archive is available, just fell into the rabbit hole of the 80’s Cathy specials and want more. Cathy is so adorable, real, and relatable. Thanks!

Hey can anyone help identify where this is from or who the artist might be?

Likely from the UK around 1980.

Hoping someone recognises the drawing style :)

https://preview.redd.it/hgsxd6jtgk9d1.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b734b98cb74c008d3dbe3c53574e87efd3316ab

Wanna see MORE?

See more of my comic strips here... https://charmysarmy.wordpress.com/davys-blog/

Please let me know if this is not the right place and I will remove it.

My school newspaper used to run comic strips and I wanted to start doing that again but I’m not exactly sure how it works. I tried looking up how to contact artists about publishing their strips but all the info is for the artist side not the newspaper side. I’m not certain how much money it would cost, how to find good strips, or if artists would even be interested in publishing in a small college newspaper. We put our paper online, as well as email it, and distribute printed copies around campus. I was hoping someone here might be able to help.

Edit: Thanks for all the advice. I reached out to a couple syndicates and got some quotes! Just passing them along to the advisor and finance people but it looks like we will have a comic strip in our paper this year!! :D

“BLONDIE” comic: How many times has Dagwood: been fired by Mr. Dithers? Times Quit? Worked entirely different job as full time not Mr.Dithers at?

I read “Blondie” with all the other comics growing up & now big resurge. Anyways I came to wonder of:

1. How many times has Dagwood been fired by Mr. Dithers?(Because always comes at some point for Mr. Dithers to do)

2. Times Quit?(I know of the time in (1992) when he did when Blondie started catering.)Not sure though did Dagwood work for Blondie, Right?)

Worked entirely different job as full time not Mr.Dithers at?/(Again when Blondie started catering.)Not sure though did Dagwood work for Blondie, Right?)

Thanks for what you can share!(Please help if you can provide a date with when such of times happened.)

...And the first thing I did was go to the image edition of the Plain Dealer (2018 to now) and scrolled right to the comics! The first month I decided to read was the September 2019 issues,as it had one of my favorite,tragic comic story arcs. I've read old comics (think of 90s) on the Google Archive of The Blade,but seeing the "newer" (as the comic ended last year) clear in the Plain Dealer was amazing. How do you guys read your comics? I usually use GoComics,but the comments on both For Better or For Worse (they have the 2000s strips in color) and Crankshaft have gotten rude. I'll read SOME Doonesbury,but it doesn't make up for FW.

What OTHER comic strip did The Dotted Line path of Family Circus trope?

When Sunday strips of “Family Circus” does the dotted line path with one of the kids usually Billy.

The only one that comes to mind they did a strip of the dotted line in the comic strip “Dustin”.

What other comic strip has?

Thank You!

Hey folks! I'm the fellow who's been reprinting Alley Oop... I'm on track to finish reprinting all the daily strips but, for the Sundays, I'm still missing many color strips.

If you happen to have old Alley Oop Sundays—ESPECIALLY from 1969–1975 or 1990–1992—please drop me a line either here or at alleyoop [at] aruffo [dotte] com!

Thanks bunches!

As of December 31st,it ended last year. Thankfully,I have four books (1996-2007. Hoping to get 1990-1995 to finish my collection) and my library now has NewsBank with the Plain Dealer. But,yeah,having a disliked comic as your favorite is rough. But I know everyone likes different things. (If you don't know what my favorite is or haven't seen previous comments,you'll have to guess)