Frank and ernest is a comic strip created and illustrated by bob thaves and later tom thaves. This listing is for a lot of 24 daily comic strips featuring frank and ernest by bob thaves. See the most recent cartoons published in the newspaper. Aug 14, 2006 whatever life form the amiable outcasts at the center of the longrunning comic strip frank and ernest take, they never quite fit in. Frank and ernest are fluid characters and appear in. Access 10,000 cartoons to find just the ones you want. Some of the sites display todays comic strips, and some display previous strips. The comic consists of standalone, generally onepanel strips, most often featuring the title characters, a pair of parkbench tramps. The charming illustrations of the decoera diner and the novelty of its animal employees will appeal to children, but the diner slang that frank and ernest learn and use will. In 1997, thaves son tom began working on the strip, as his father went into semiretirement, and took it over entirely following the senior thaves death. Erie timesnews to gut its comics pages the daily cartoonist. Frank and ernest today comic strips the comic strips posted.
Frank and ernest was the first comic panel to appear in a strip format, vary the roles of its characters and use block lettering. In a 1982 frank and ernest comic strip thaves wrote about fred astaire. It debuted on november 6, 1972, and has since been. It was the first to be nominated for a reuben category award for both syndicated panel and comic strip and has won category reuben awards three times. Make sure this fits by entering your model number this unusual puzzle features 6 favorite frank and ernest comics laserengraved onto 12 wooden cubes twist, turn, mix and match the cubes until the comic strips appear in the correct order. The standard 4frame comic strip is enlarged to approximately 4 x 12 inches. Cartoonist group licensing celebrates frank and ernest. Internationally acclaimed comic strip by writer mikael wulff and illustrator anders morgenthaler. Frank and ernest by thaves andrews mcmeel syndication home.
No robots are harmed in the making of our products. Traveling the universe, the pair most recognizable as. More recently, frank and ernest was the first strip to use digital coloring for its sunday cartoons, the first strip in over 1,000 newspapers to list the creators email address and its website broke a lot of ground in 1997. The erie timesnews plans on cutting 1416 of its 36 comic strips and panels our intent is to eliminate one of the two pages of comics we run each day, which means dropping 14 or perhaps 16 of the 36 comics we run monday through saturday. View results for frank and ernest ernest,comic strips from, the worlds largest comic strip site for online classic strips likecalvin and hobbes. Frank and ernest comic strip hey kids comics wiki fandom. Ive never liked it as if you couldnt tell, and todays schmaltzy overthetop sickeningly adowable widdle comic is too much. It debuted on november 6, 1972, and has since been published daily in over 1,200 newspapers. Of course ugly is subjective, but were here to express our opinions. Books magazines newsletters presentations websites. Sep 17, 2010 first published in 1988 and now back by popular demand, good dog, carl illustrator alexandra days frank and ernest is the entertaining tale of a bear and an elephant who learn to run a diner. There are a number of ways for you to see some or all of them. Disingenuous, frank, and earnest the word detective.
The humor of the comic is based almost exclusively on wordplay and puns regardless of the topic, everything related to the topic background and phrases is shown in a single frame in the daily strips. The constant element is the pairs frank and earnest iconoclastic attitude. See frank and ernest at the cartoonist group, thousands of searchable highquality editorial cartoons and comic strips. Regardless of the topic, everything related to the topic background and phrases is shown in a single frame in the daily strips. Frank, series of experimental comic books by jim woodring. A homage to the great comic strip created and illustrated by bob thaves. Ernest stars frank and ernest, playful punsters with the ability to appear as any person, place or thing in any time period. Bob thaves, robert lee thaves, american comic strip artist born oct.
Wumo has become one of the most popular comic strips in europe. It is often compared to the far side for its random themes and non sequitur style of humor. Frank and earnest, is a duplicative fixed phrase often employed in government press statements after frank and earnest discussions, all parties have agreed to give themselves raises. The humor of the comic is based almost exclusively on wordplay and puns. Example of context in a general chemistry or biology class comic. These are available to license for books, magazines, merchandise, newsletters, presentations and websites. View results for frank and ernest frank,comic strips from, the worlds largest comic strip site for online classic strips likecalvin and hobbes. Frank and ernest is a newspaper comic featuring the title characters in gagaday humor that takes them over space and time, and through random occupations from a baseline of bums, when not featuring bit parts by fractured fairy tale characters, or mother goose characters, or the planets, or numerals. Frank and ernests archive of nearly 3,000 comic strips.
Starting in the late 1990s, bob thaves went into semiretirement, and much of the work on the strip was taken over by his son, tom. Prone to medium awareness and incredibly lame puns. Frank and ernest all the tropes wiki fandom powered by wikia. Top websites about frank and ernest comic strip today. See more ideas about comic strips, comics and funny. The strip enjoys a history of innovation having been the first panel presented in a strip format. Read and catch up on all your favorite comics from the seattle times. The charming illustrations of the decoera diner and the novelty of its animal employees will appeal to children, but the diner slang that frank and. Bob thaves, 81, comic strip artist the new york times. Advertisement advertisement advertisement find comics.
Bob thaves, author of frank and ernest comic strip, dead at. Family games 3d comic cube puzzle featuring frank and. Often the quote is incorrectly attributed to faith whittlesey. View the comic strip for frank and ernest by cartoonist thaves created october 30, 20 available on gocomics. See frank and ernest at the comic strips, thousands of searchable highquality comic strips. See more ideas about comic strips, comics and bob and tom. Today on frank and ernest comics by thaves gocomics. I thought that frank and ernest was one of the few funny comic strips on the funny pages especially since i love punrelated humor far too much for my own good. See more ideas about comic strips, hilarious and comics. Frank and ernest may 24, 2004 comic art print gocomics. Nice collection of frank and ernest comics arranged around the theme of the history of the world from creation and evolution through selected historical events to the future. Frank and ernest big comics and cartoons the cartoonist group.
Frank and ernest today comic strips the comic strips. Using comics in the science classroom trinity college. First published in 1988 and now back by popular demand, good dog, carl illustrator alexandra days frank and ernest is the entertaining tale of a bear and an elephant who learn to run a diner. It was also the first to use comic bookstyle digital coloring. Frank and ernest ernest comic strips the comic strips. Comics here are links to web sites for the comic strips found in the ledger. According to united media, it was the first newspaper cartoon to run in. More constructively, it was the inspiration in 1972 for the creation of frank and ernest, a very popular singlepanel newspaper comic strip. Whatever life form the amiable outcasts at the center of the longrunning comic strip frank and ernest take, they never quite fit in. Frank and ernest is a syndicated newspaper comic strip, created by bob thaves in 1972. Frank and ernest is an american comic strip created and illustrated by bob thaves and later tom thaves. If calvin is intended to be obnoxious, he succeeded, and its my right to dislike characters whom i find obnoxious. Wumo originated in denmark and led to the highly popular sitcom the pandas.
In 1997, thaves son tom began working on the strip, as his father went into semiretirement, and took it over entirely following the senior thaves death in august 2006. Buy fred basset books frog applause by teresa burritt. Frank and ernest comics and cartoons about things that are big. Sizes vary in accordance with the size of the comic itself, but all are printed, centered, on acidfree, archival 11 x 17inch paper. The official ginger rogers website credits thaves and uses his original line. Its never been a funny comic, but todays catastrophe of a strip drove me over the wall. Frank and ernest comic strip academic dictionaries and. Sure he was great, but dont forget that ginger rogers did everything he did, backwardsand in high heels. Frank and ernest, one of the most widely read american comic strips of the past four decades is in its 45th year. Click on any image to see links to licensing and related cartoons. This comic strip, printed on april 25, 1985, features the characters frank and ernest as a letter carrier and customer.