Comments on: Days of Thunder RIP?

By: Elliott

Elliott — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:18:36 +0000

I found how to reach him, asked about the strip and he wrote back:

Elliot-

Thanks for the letter! The New Yorker still publishes my stuff a couple of times a year, but things are done with United Features.

Best,
Robert Esmay Lovely

By: Trish

Trish — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:45:17 +0000

So it departs as it lived: leaving readers puzzled.

By: Dave Geary

Dave Geary — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:44:33 +0000

That’s too bad, since it could be relied on to be incomprehensible when no one else was.

By: Susan T-O

Susan T-O — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:56:34 +0000

I went to www.rlovely.com & clicked on the “Days of Thunder” link. It attempted to take me to www.robesmay.com & eventually errored out (if that’s the term).

By: Eric Goebelbecker

Eric Goebelbecker — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:14:02 +0000

www.robesmay.com is gone, but www.rlovely.com is still there.

By: Trish

Trish — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:10:36 +0000

I’ve been wondering the same. I looked through the rec.arts comics group (usually a good source for the latest info) and I’ve been doing a search every now and then but it seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

Frequently I didn’t get the point of those one-panels but I always enjoyed trying to figure them out. The intricate detail made that time worthwhile. And occasionally, when I’d get the joke, it was good. Very good. Well worth the time spent studying it.

I hope the artist is ok, and I hope his reasons for moving on are giving him the satisfaction that his art deserves.