Four years ago. A particularly passionate staff meeting. We’d already made our splash as being THE place to go for thoughtful arts criticism, poetry and fiction. As we set out the rest of our plan to change the world of contemporary magazines, we asked each other what we missed about newspapers of the past.
“Comics,” someone said.
Everyone nodded.
And so began our weekly Sunday Comics feature. Humble at first, with only six cartoons, it’s since grown to be thirty strips a week, featuring the finest Creative Commons-licensed comics in the world and public domain comics from the dawn of published comic strip history as well.
It remains our most intellectual feature. As it should be.
In celebration of our 200th week of Sunday Comics, we bring you an extra large cavalcade of comics. Enjoy.
Grapefruit Press (née Doghouse Diaries)
Mary Death – Matthew Tarpley
Noise to Signal – Rob Cottingham
Eggmen – Richard Barker
Dream of the Rarebit Fiend – Winsor McCay
Architexts – Maverick & Joker
Schemantics – Michael Yu
Khartoon! – Khalid Albaih
All Those People – Kostja Ribnik & Adela Galešić
Bad Pudding – Ollie Hayes
Life in Aggro – Cecilia Vasquez & Fei Hsiao
Bonkers – Manu Cornet
Poorly Drawn Lines – Reza Farazmand
Clockworks – Shawn Gaston
The Realist – Asaf Hanuka
Abstruse Goose
Mr. Lovenstein – J.L. Westover
Cat and Girl – Dorothy Gambrell
Pepper and Carrot – David Revoy
Art – John Ohannesian
Sandra & Woo – Powree & Oliver Knörzer
Agonizing Trifles – Erik Jagger
In Search of Basho – Mark Fittock & Ross Findlay
Inkygirl – Debbie Ridpath Ohi
The Other End – Neil Kohney
Iverly – Jeffrey Rowland
Irregular – David Morgan-Mar
Sephko – Gojko Franulic
“Never Trust Anyone…” – Christopher Dombres
Diesel Sweeties – Richard Stevens
Stuff No One Told Me – Alex Noriega
IM Bry – Bry Onglatco
Socks and Puppets – David Birch
The Daily Snooze – Jacob Samuels
Bro, Don’t Like That, La, Bro – Ernest Ng
Trader Lydia – Ted Bishop
Channel Draw – Gianluca Constantini
Tentaciónes – Ana Galvañ
Interesting Times – Nathan Fehr
Crimes Against Hugh’s Manatees – Hugh Crawford
xkcd – Randall Munroe
Yesterday, Everyday – Cynthia Merhej
Darwin Eats Cake – Jon Wilkins
Der Wo Ente – Emil Erpel
Climax! – The Phony
