Universal Press has announced that Bob Harrell will end his comic Big Top on March 25th. In statement by Bob, he says: This was an incredibly difficult decision. The strip, and the characters feel like family to me and I loved every day of doing Big Top. But for both professional and financial reasons, itâ??s […]
Out on book shelves today is a book I’ve wrote about a couple of weeks ago called Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression. The author, Dave Wallis, has an excellent article in the San Francisco Chronicle that nicely recaps the major themes of his book. It’s an excellent read and worth a […]
Found an interesting article on a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist named Jay “Ding” Darling who drew cartoons for the Sioux City Journal and Des Moines Register at the beginning of the last century. An active conservationist of his time, he was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1934 to head up U.S. Biological Survey […]