The Chicago Daily News – April 24, 1929 Herbert Block, signing Herblock, begins his career as an editorial cartoonist. Herblock would continue for 72 years, until his death in 2001. During that time he would be awarded three Pulitzer Prizes. The first for a comment about Joseph Stalin. The last Pulitzer for […]
Cartoonist P. C. Vey Hampshire Life: Talk about the work you’re currently doing. What does it involve, and what are you trying to achieve? Peter Vey: Right now I’m doing a batch of cartoons, which is about 15 to 20 roughs. I actually do this every week for The New Yorker. The batch is due by […]
A new fifteen day Minit Mystery will be featured in the Dick Tracy comic strip. It will start Sunday April 28, 2019 and end on Sunday May 12, 2019. The new Minit Mystery will be written by (Sgt.) Jim Doherty; no word on whether Joe Staton or a guest artist will do the art. […]
Next year will be the 50th anniversary of the infamous Kent State shootings. In Spring of 2020 John Backderf and Abrams Books will release Kent State: Four Dead In Ohio. “I’ve boiled the story down to showing how it unfolded,” Derf said. “It’s a very personal account of this shocking event that still reverberates […]
The Mueller Report is not the only important issue facing us these days. For instance, if you haven’t been reading Non Sequitur, you might not have begun contemplating the issue of whether squirrels poop. So now I’ve given it some thought and I suppose they’re like mice and it just kind of falls out randomly, […]