Excerpts from Bruce Jenkins’ San Francisco Chronicle obituary: Willie McCovey was the gentleman superstar, often described as a man without enemies. McCovey, who died at the age of 80 on Wednesday afternoon, was among the classiest athletes ever to grace the Bay Area. Humble and soft-spoken, always clearly grateful of the life he was able […]
Bob Mankoff is about to launch Cartoon Collections, a new website which will house Mankoff pieces and other material from famed sources including The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, National Lampoon and many more. Cartoon Collection will be the largest digital collection of licenseable cartoons in the world. Bob Mankoff on his new concern […]
Earlier today Mike Peterson presented us with the origins of The Great Pumpkin. Linus and The Great Pumpkin was an annual event in the Peanuts comic strip that became a perennial favorite as an animated TV special. And while Garfield’s Halloween Adventure tried to compete as a television tradition, it never rose to the beloved […]
There were a lot of cartoons today about the grownups eating the candy and other stalwarts of the season, which kind of made me think maybe after five or six years cartoonists should stop drawing Halloween cartoons and simply rotate the ones in their archives. Halloween cartoons are like obituary cartoons: They’re expected, but they’re […]