Randy Milholland will become the new cartoonist of the
Popeye Sunday comic strip beginning June 5, 2022.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/03/randy-milholland-takes-over-sunday-popeye/

On 6/3/2022 11:04 AM, D.D.Degg wrote:
> Randy Milholland will become the new cartoonist of the
> Popeye Sunday comic strip beginning June 5, 2022.
> https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/03/randy-milholland-takes-over-sunday-popeye/

Probably won't be a lot of similarity to his long-running webcomic:

https://somethingpositive.net/

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In article <a51e5fa2-ad49-4e73-bbbd-1d3ee58df8bbn@googlegroups.com>,
D.D.Degg <dddegg17@comcast.net> wrote:
>Randy Milholland will become the new cartoonist of the
>Popeye Sunday comic strip beginning June 5, 2022.
>https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/03/randy-milholland-takes-over-sunday-popeye/

I like the example strips there. I wish they would put him, or anybody,
on new dailies.
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On 6/3/2022 9:42 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <a51e5fa2-ad49-4e73-bbbd-1d3ee58df8bbn@googlegroups.com>,
> D.D.Degg <dddegg17@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Randy Milholland will become the new cartoonist of the
>> Popeye Sunday comic strip beginning June 5, 2022.
>> https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/03/randy-milholland-takes-over-sunday-popeye/
>
> I like the example strips there. I wish they would put him, or anybody,
> on new dailies.

As do I.

The problem there, of course, is what happened the last time there was
an artist doing Popeye dailies.

And Randy's even more of a social advocate than that, not that I'm
complaining.

I suspect, though, that less of these are going to be entirely
unconnected than is normal for a Sunday-only strip.

And if he *does* show them that they need a full daily for storylines...

....well, OK, then we could still be in trouble, because Randy has real
problems working to deadline with S*P.

Still, fingers crossed for the mid-20s!

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On Friday, June 3, 2022 at 10:04:01 AM UTC-5, D.D.Degg wrote:
> Randy Milholland will become the new cartoonist of the
> Popeye Sunday comic strip beginning June 5, 2022.
> https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/03/randy-milholland-takes-over-sunday-popeye/

Where's Olivia James (Nancy artist since 2018), Jules Riveria (Mark Trail artist since 2020) or Johnathan Lemon/Joey Alison Sayers (Alley Oop artist since 2019) when you need them to reboot a comic strip?

On 6/3/2022 9:32 AM, Mark Jackson wrote:
> On 6/3/2022 11:04 AM, D.D.Degg wrote:
>> Randy Milholland will become the new cartoonist of the
>> Popeye Sunday comic strip beginning June 5, 2022.
>> https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/03/randy-milholland-takes-over-sunday-popeye/
>>
>
> Probably won't be a lot of similarity to his long-running webcomic:
>
> https://somethingpositive.net/
>

As you may or may not be aware, we basically got a preview of what we'll
be getting, two years ago, when Popeye's Cartoon Club was revived for
him for about a month.

Among other things, he appears to have it set up where *Castor Oyl*, of
all characters, feels like an integral part of the cast who should never
again be written out. Was he a plainclothes detective already the last
time someone used him?

That's partly because Randy has moved Castor's daughter Deezil into the
comic canon and she plays a role that really did need playing.

He created a single character in that who'll eventually have a name; I
suspect the first time we see the Sea Hag, she'll already have her
green-haired intern.

OK, check that, he created *two* characters with names and gave us our
first actual sighting of Whaler Joe. But the other character, another
distant Oyl cousin named Snake, is likely to never reappear.

Comments at CK were overwhelmingly positive, but also overwhelmingly
came from people like me who had never commented on a Popeye page before
(aside from the Cartoon Club ones).

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Not so long ago, D.D.Degg wrote:
> Randy Milholland will become the new cartoonist of the
> Popeye Sunday comic strip beginning June 5, 2022.
> https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/03/randy-milholland-takes-over-sunday-popeye/

There's a nice article in today's Washington Post about it

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