The Lockhorns debuted in Newsday on Sept. 9, 1968 as the “The Lockhorns of Levittown.” After Bill Hoest died in 1988 at age 62, Bunny Hoest and John Reiner kept the Lockhorns alive. Newsday has a nice article about the local cartoon that made good and the 50 years of comics donated to […]
The longstanding animus between the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh has now drug editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley into the conflict. The union has written a letter about what it calls are the “misogynistic editorial cartoons” of Steve Kelley’s that have recently appeared in the newspaper. Steve Kelley is not a member […]
Gannett, continuing its recent actions, has cut loose dozens of journalists today including editorial cartoonists Steve Benson and Charlie Daniel. From Poynter: Another brutal day for journalism. Gannett began slashing jobs all across the country Wednesday in a cost-cutting move that was anticipated even before the recent news that a hedge-fund company was planning to […]
Eighty-five years (and a couple days) ago the daily strip portion of Alex Raymond‘s January 1934 trilogy of newspaper comic strips debuted. But young Raymond wasn’t the *BIG NAME* used to promote the new feature. A bit over two years earlier Dick Tracy had appeared and become a comic strip sensation. King Features reacted […]
Bill Bramhall uses a familiar symbol — heck, I just cited it the other day — and this time, it’s no joke and not much of an exaggeration. Perhaps none. (Bloomberg) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, has postponed his testimony to Congress citing concerns for his family’s safety. On the […]