The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has made some changes to its Sunday edition. Today, I’m happy to report, we’re answering requests from subscribers to stop jumping stories backward from the last pages of two Sunday sections. Over the years, we’d dealt with some press and cost issues by combining sections in a way that irritated many […]
Author, Illustrator and cartoonist Tomi Ungerer has passed away. Jean-Thomas (Tomi) Ungerer November 28, 1931 – February 9, 2019* *Ungerer died sometime during the night of Friday February 8 to Saturday February 9. In 1956, he traveled to America, hitting New York in 1956 with $65 in his pocket and many drawings whereupon Ursula Nordstrom, […]
Chan Lowe points out what we’ve been seeing on Facebook, which is that what people were warned about six months ago or more is happening now. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed in 2017 and so this is the first year it impacts your taxes. There was always a suspicion — big surprise […]
Back in the day it wasn’t unusual for cartoonists to do specialty drawings for individual newspapers that carried their comics, whether for promotion or as a thank you or an anniversary celebration. Below are Milton Caniff (1984) and Chester Gould (1963) samples. It’s good to see the tradition hasn’t completely gone away. Recently John […]
Usually when Stephan Pastis causes tears to roll it’s from laughing too hard. But occasionally Stephan gets serious in his Pearls Before Swine comic strip. Sometimes he gets profound. Sometimes Stephan gets really intense. Michael Cavna, at the Washington Post, took note that a late 2018 Pearls Sunday strip about Stephan’s dog […]