Well, 2017 is here, and it's going to be
The Year of the Comic Strip at
CSR thanks to some tremendous help I've received from
Andre in Brazil and most especially from
Sweetspot right here in the U.S.A. (and this forum!).
Robin has chipped in as well and I've made a few modest contributions myself, which reminds me - it's time for the
December Spanking Search Report.
Pages searched: 4316
Total: 557310
Comic Spankings: 7
The raw numbers aren't bad - 4300 pages and 7 spankings - but three of them were reprints of scenes from
Smilin' Jack we've already seen (not that we won't see these reprints in due time

), two of them were M/M, and one of them was a sight we truly never wanted or expected to see: a F/M spanking in a romance comic book

. (I think that's the first time I've ever used the "raspberry" icon - everybody knows it's not a reference to the berry, I trust). It's truly bizarre, involving two women and a paddle, and will definitely not be posted during
Romantic Spanking Month, although I'll put it out in the gallery eventually, with warnings and without fanfare. The last one was quite good, though, from a little-remembered strip from the 30's - M/F and OTK

. I will try to work it in during this year. Now for the unhappy details of the M/M scenes which will be put in the DB later tonight:
1.
Popular Comics #6 (July 1936, Dell) M/M, Cop / Percy, OTK, hand – Percy is impudent and is smoking a cigarette, so a beat cop spanks him. From the
Ella and her Fella strip.
2.
Popular Comics #7 (August 1936, Dell) M/M Father / Son, OTK, hand - Jinglet 4-panel strip. Boy breaks window with baseball, gets spanked by father. Would have appeared in a newspaper earlier.
Nothing new in Humorama, but I did manage to get a boatload of
Condorito comics shipped to me in digital format from Venezuela. With a little luck, I'll find the details of the one known issue with a spanking on the cover, and perhaps uncover some more spankings in other issues. Each issue of
Condorito was basically a compendium of short gags, so a spanking would certainly be an appropriate conclusion to some of them.
The holidays are a busy time, so if you want to hear about my plans for 2017 in some detail but didn't catch my post last week
2016 in Review and Plans for 2017, this would be the time to catch up.
I upgraded this board last week to the latest version of phpBB without incident - it was mostly minor fixes and some security updates relevant only to users with older browsers. Everything seems to be working fine but of course please do report any problems you encounter.
Now on at last to this week's updates. For links please go to the
Home Page by clicking on "Chicago Spanking Review Home Page" at the top of this page.
- We really hadn't been keeping up with our Events Page, perhaps because we simply don't have the kind of interest in attending spanking parties that we used to, but we updated it as a kind of New Year's resolution. Unfortunately some of the major spanking clubs have not yet announced their 2017 party schedules, but we put down what we could find and we'll try to keep up in the future.
- The winters are long and cold here in the midwest, so to warm us up a little bit we've prepared another installment of Humorama Models to See More Of.
- We kick off the New Year of 2017, which will be the "Year of the Comic Strip," with some new scans and information on the "Buz Sawyer Spanks Jungle Girl" panel we first posted back in 2011.
Next Week: We continue the "Year of the Comic Strip," by revisiting the
Susie Q. spanking with two new scans and some new information.
