By the early 1960s Wally Wood was a known comic artist. His EC science fiction and MAD work was hailed. Early on he was good enough to draw Will Eisner’s The Spirit and spell Frank Frazetta on the Ace McCoy comic strip. His fantasy illustrations for pulps and his adventure sequences for the Valor […]
This coming weekend Gasoline Alley will celebrate its 100th anniversary, having first appeared November 24, 1918 in the Saturday edition of The Chicago Sunday Tribune. The writer-artist behind the ongoing strip today is Jim Scancarelli of Charlotte, N.C. He is just the fourth cartoonist to [sign] the comic. The North Michigan Christian Voice […]
A guest columnist at the Journal-Advocate of Sterling, Colorado, attempts to guilt Gary Larson into bringing “The Far Side” back From the column: For many in my generation, we relied upon Gary Larson to give us a daily inoculation against cynicism. Larson was cutting edge, but never mean spirited, and his ability to find the […]
Ed Hall is right, and so was I. The problem is climate change, but people are still seizing on the one remark in which Trump — for maybe the first time in his life — got something right. Still, as Hall notes, good forest management can’t overcome climate change, even if the nitwit who recommends […]