# Weirdest comic strip crossover ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2015, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594 "2015-11-04T06:41:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/21 "2015-11-04T18:10:29Z")
**John Darling** and **Crankshaft** used to spill over into **Funky Winkerbean** kind of a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/22 "2015-11-04T18:40:05Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Pearls Before Swine frequently does strips involving the Family Circus kids. > > And I don’t know if it counts as a crossover but PBS had a week of strips a couple years ago that were drawn by Bill Watterson. Several years ago, the Crocodiles babysat for the Baby Blues kids, who stayed off camera in PBS. The following Sunday’s strip for BB had Baby Wren in the background, chewing on a dead croc’s tail. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/23 "2015-11-04T18:47:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I think I remember that one. Was it done just that one time? Some individual pairs of artists have done it but nothing ever on that scale was ever done again. It even crossed over different syndicates. At some point I remember seeing a website that had reproductions of most of the strips from that day but it was missing some. Nearly every strip printed at the time took part. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/24 "2015-11-04T19:12:22Z")
Meh, could be weirder. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/25 "2015-11-04T19:14:34Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Some individual pairs of artists have done it but nothing ever on that scale was ever done again. It even crossed over different syndicates. At some point I remember seeing a website that had reproductions of most of the strips from that day but it was missing some. Nearly every strip printed at the time took part. As I recall, there was talk of doing it again the next year, but the bigger-name cartoonists balked and no one gives a crap about the lesser-known ones, so they stopped. There were some instances of cartoonists using the occasion to either disrespect the strip they were subbing on (the Bizarro guy on Luann comes to mind) or using someone else’s characters to make dodgy political points. Anyway, no, it was a one-and-done. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/26 "2015-11-04T19:18:49Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > One of my favorites was the April Fools day in the 90s when, with no warning, a few dozen Strip creators switched strips. > **[Comic strip switcheroo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_strip_switcheroo)** > > The comic strip switcheroo (also known as the Great Comics Switcheroonie or the Great April Fools' Day Comics Switcheroonie) was conducted on April 1, 1997, in which several cartoonists, without the foreknowledge of their editors, worked on the other's comic strip for that date, in commemoration of April Fools' Day. > Forty-six syndicated artists participated in the event, which was conceived by Baby Blues creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott. Some of these trades were one for the other, while ot... ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/27 "2015-11-04T19:19:48Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Meh, could be weirder. Thank you for your contribution. I will treasure it forever. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/28 "2015-11-04T19:21:11Z")
And then there’s the time [Bill Watterson drew _Pearls Before Swine_](https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/29 "2015-11-04T19:25:41Z")
[This may be of interest.](http://dustincomics.com/2014/04/01/the-famous-funnies-april-fools-prank/) I found it while trying to discover what Bizarro did to Luann. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/30 "2015-11-04T20:27:35Z")
There was a **Peanuts** strip that featured [Charlie Brown and Alfred E. Neuman](https://bmj2k.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/brown.gif). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/31 "2015-11-04T20:29:57Z")
The February 14, 2000 strip of _For Better or For Worse_ takes the form of a Happy Valentine wish to Sparky (Charles) and Jeannie Schultz, including drawings of _Peanuts_ characters. Well, it struck \*me \*as weird since Charles has died on the 12th. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/32 "2015-11-04T20:36:44Z")
Speaking of Peanuts, [Weapon Brown](http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/weaponbrown/) features a weaponized Charlie Brown and some other comics characters. Bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/33 "2015-11-04T21:31:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Horatio Hellpop** : > > Probably the earliest crossover was between Beetle Bailey and Hi & Lois in the 50s (Beetle is Lois’s brother). > [@](#): > > John Darling and Crankshaft used to spill over into Funky Winkerbean kind of a lot. I don’t think that spinoffs really count as crossovers. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/34 "2015-11-04T22:08:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > [This may be of interest.](http://dustincomics.com/2014/04/01/the-famous-funnies-april-fools-prank/) I found it while trying to discover what Bizarro did to Luann. You can see that [here](http://futabakun.blogspot.com/2012/06/great-comics-switcheroonie.html), 'bout ¾ down. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/35 "2015-11-05T01:31:59Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > You can see that [here](http://futabakun.blogspot.com/2012/06/great-comics-switcheroonie.html), 'bout ¾ down. Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/36 "2015-11-05T03:52:11Z")
I love [this recent B.C. strip](http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/drawing.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/37 "2015-11-05T04:42:06Z")
I tried to find an image of it online, but anyway…an old continuing story from “Bloom County” back in the day had Opus trying to recover from amnesia. (I don’t remember just why he had amnesia, but he had it for several weeks or months worth of strips.) Milo and Binkley are discussing it and the latter tells the former that he sent Opus to seek “psychiatric advice.” The last panel of the strip depicted a befuddled Opus sitting on the stool in front of Lucy’s psychiatric advice booth from “Peanuts”, with the sign saying “the doctor is \*out”. In the next day’s strip, there was a panel just depicting the booth itself and a sign reading “the doctor is _not seeing any more stupid penguins_.” ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/38 "2015-11-05T05:07:46Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > [This may be of interest.](http://dustincomics.com/2014/04/01/the-famous-funnies-april-fools-prank/) I found it while trying to discover what Bizarro did to Luann. > [@Skywatcher](#): > > You can see that [here](http://futabakun.blogspot.com/2012/06/great-comics-switcheroonie.html), 'bout ¾ down. [Here’s a blog post by Dan Piraro about it.](http://bizarro.com/2013/10/12/bonus-post-2/) I think he did well with it, but then, I was a _Bizarro_ fan. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/39 "2015-11-05T05:59:49Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > There was a **Peanuts** strip that featured [Charlie Brown and Alfred E. Neuman](https://bmj2k.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/brown.gif). Alfred also made a cameo in a TV episode of Mr. Magoo. Seriously, Magoo was Jack in a “Jack and the Beanstalk” episode, and at the very end, the giant turns out to be Alfred E. Neuman. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594/40 "2015-11-05T06:22:21Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Alfred also made a cameo in a TV episode of Mr. Magoo. Seriously, Magoo was Jack in a “Jack and the Beanstalk” episode, and at the very end, the giant turns out to be Alfred E. Neuman. Now that you mention it, I remember that cartoon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-comic-strip-crossover-ever/736594.md?page=3)