Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith has a new book coming out next Spring. Not that an excuse is needed to do a career spanning interview with Bill Griffith. Alan Bisbort talks to Bill about his influences, his mother’s love affair with cartoonist and cartoon editor Lawrence Lariar, his life in San Francisco among the […]
After 27 years cartoonist Chad Carpenter gets his Tundra comic strip into his hometown newspaper. Monday afternoon Chad Carpenter sat in his Alaska State Fair booth surrounded his Tundra Comics merchandise. But that’s not all that’s on Carpenter’s agenda this week. Carpenter, the Valley’s most noted cartoonist, will see his Tundra Comics appear in his […]
Stephan Pastis scoffs at readers’ complaints… and then, in his own way, trolls them. They say it’s unwise to annoy a cartoonist. Take, for example, Stephan Pastis. In a recent comic strip, the “Pearls Before Swine” creator took aim at those who nitpick over grammatical errors while also giving a shout-out to the central Pennsylvania region. In […]
I wish I thought Matt Davies‘ cartoon would reach more of the people it probably won’t. I find myself increasingly in the position of wanting to fine-tune arguments in a world in which there is no longer a vertical hold or a horizontal hold or, lord knows, a fine-tuning button. And most of the people […]