Draw!

For some reason this week, I've been paying a lot of attention to simply the way comics are drawn. The colors that are used, the styles ranging from sketchy rough to photorealistically smooth - characteristics of faces and landscapes. Some things that stick out to me are:

*The way the eyes of characters in "For Better Or Worse" seem to bug out.

*The masterful use of color and shading in the panels of "Classic Peanuts."

*The humans in "Mutts" have a decidedly "Popeye" look to them.

*"Mother Goose and Grimm" has fun with pop-culture figures in its own way, but today's clever rendering of Alice and the White Rabbit was not only clever, but stunning in its mimicry (original illustrations, not the Disney versions.)

*Both "Zits" and "Rose Is Rose" take delight in skewing perpectives, tilting angles and going beyond the edges of frames.

*No matter how progressive it gets, "Blondie" remains a classic-looking strip - as in the good ol' days. They just don't make 'em like that anymore.