Steve Canyon Strips Going On-Line

Editor & Publisher has a news brief up stating that installments of Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon are going to go up on a site called HumorousMaximus.com. This is interesting for a lot of reasons: the site is mostly humor strips, Milton Caniff is a legendary comic strip figure so you might expect this announcement coming from a syndicate or something rather than an independent site, and Canyon recently celebrated a birthday.

Steve Canyon is a fascinating strip, too, and not just on the level that as we've started to find and republish so many great comics that 41 years of largely not-yet re-read Milton Caniff starts to looks like the Lost Island of Atlantis. The fact is that it's really, really well-crafted work, and has some cultural juice for its treatment of American attitudes towards the post-World War II planet and its status as maybe the oddest art casualty of a Vietnam War that kind of threw the narratives for a loop and put Caniff's politics in cold relief.
 
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