Last summer 15-year-old Hunter Wooldridge began his life as a newspaper comic strip creator. Now Hunter returns with a new comic strip for the Frankfort State Journal. For the past school year, Frankfort High sophomore Hunter Wooldridge has been carefully plotting storylines, sketching characters and honing his craft for Thursday’s return to The State […]
Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics examine the drawing behind some favorite cartoons. Line, crayon, more line, wash, much more line, tone. Frank Cotham, Robert Weber, Richard Taylor, Mick Stevens, Jack Ziegler, James Thurber, George Price, Alex Gregory, […]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer recently changed their format from six columns to four columns. But now they don’t know what to do with it and are asking readers to design and edit the paper. Our recent redesign made some of those questions more urgent and more obvious, and I’m writing to consult with our […]
GoComics has announced the launch of Matt Tarpley’s “Cat’s Cafe.” About the comic: Everyone is welcome at Cat’s Café! There is always a seat and someone to talk to. Follow Cat, Penguin, and Rabbit along with a variety of other special animals, form a wonderful place where everyone can feel warm, fuzzy, and accepted. Matt’s […]
The Paris Review has an excerpt from the book Scrawl: an A to Z of Famous Doodles by Todd Strauss-Schulson, Caren Strauss-Schulson, and Claudia Strauss-Schulson which looks into the legendary “doodle” collection of their father. From the piece: Over the course of his career, he (David Schulson) amassed arguably the most impressive private collection of […]
Gary Varvel offers a thought-provoking idea, though his own opinion isn’t particularly clear here. The original Tea Party was protesting taxation (as does the current Tea Party, if it exists anymore) but it was tangled up in a whole lot of issues, including, but not limited to, a lack of representation in Parliament. England hardly […]