Sunday comics

Well, we didn't really have graphic novels when I was growing up.

But we had the Sunday Funnies, which I read start to finish.

Every single one.

Even ones when I was a kid that I didn't totally understand, like Gasoline Alley and Brenda Starr.

This was a long time ago.

But I used to...

Then back then, the Sunday Funnies were like a book.

Like the Daily News especially was like this big thing.

Well, we've been talking about your work as a cartoonist, and...

Listeners to Dog Words don't get to see what I'm seeing, which is the box set for Mutt's Sunday Funnies Volumes 1 and 2.

And it's more than just a collection of... a few years worth of the comics, there's a preface, it's two volumes.

There's a preface in there from you for each of them, which covers a lot of how you got started and your approach and that you learned the colorization process.

I don't know if you want to combine them.

But the Sunday Funnies, as you Midwesterners called them.

Yeah, let's do them both.

Sunday Funnies.

The Sunday

Funnies.

Yeah, we called them the Funnies.

dying over here i called it on the i was just kidding about the midwestern thing but hey you did it so

But now he no longer has the Daily Strip.

So he's just doing the Sunday Strip.

So a lot of his current work is focused on Trump.

Trump is a major character.

I'm sure it'll eventually happen, but I'll believe it when I see it.

The classic comic strip character's meet and greet gives guests the chance to step into the world of the Sunday Funnies and meet some of the beloved characters that inspired the land.

Depending on the day, visitors may encounter favorites such as Popeye, Olive Oil, Betty Boop, Blondie, Beetle Bailey, and other comic strip personalities who helped shape American newspaper comics for generations.

Me Ship the Olive is an interactive playground themed to Popeye's beloved ship from the classic comic strip and animated cartoons.

... have just gone away.

Yeah, and the, the comics, I remember on the Akron Beacon Journal, the Sunday Funnies-

Separate section

... which was very cool.