From Snow White to Bugs Bunny to Punkinhead Celebrating a cabin built 100 years ago in Manitoba gives reason to profile Charles Thorson, who spent his childhood in said cabin. Charles Thorson moved to Hollywood in 1934 and became a cartoonist who created prototypes for Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, […]
Speed Bump cartoonist Dave Coverly spent some time in Bloomington, Indiana on his way to the hinterlands. Dave and some of his cartoon originals return to Bloomington for a good cause. Reports The Herald Times: Over the course of three decades, his panels have occasionally featured jokes involving cats and dogs. Some of those panels […]
Consolidated Publishing Co. publishes two daily newspapers (and a few weeklies) in Alabama. They have decided that the daily papers, The Anniston Star and The (Talladega) Daily Home, should have identical syndicated content. For decades, The Anniston Star and The Daily Home have both published a comics page. Over the years, the lineup changes from […]
[Jack Ohman] grew up fishing for bluegills in Lake Johanna, slinging Texas rigs for bass on Mille Lacs and drifting for walleyes in his father’s 12-foot “car-topper,’’ a vintage boat he still keeps. High school friends coaxed him to the Kinnickinnic River in River Falls, Wis., and he evolved into a fly fishing junkie of […]