It really is not surprising how many cartoonists grew up with MAD magazine. On July 3, I lost a childhood friend who was the greatest influence in my cartooning career. Mad magazine is dead at 67. We first met in the magazine aisle of Danner’s five-and-dime store in Danville. It was June of 1969 and […]
Jim Davis, through Heritage Auctions, is offering up a bunch of 20th Century Garfield strips for bid – it is being called The Jim Davis Collection. The items are listed in auction #7211, which also includes a number of Charles Schulz Peanuts strips and the historically important tenth Prince Valiant Sunday page by Hal […]
Engineer and political cartoonist Bob Cope has passed away. James Robert (Bob) Cope February 6, 1937 – July 18, 2019 Bob’s impressive accomplishments as an engineer for 60 years are far too extensive to list here, but his cartooning career is easier. From the obituary: As a hobby from 2001 through 2018, Bob […]
Lalo Alcaraz pretty well sums up the response to Mueller’s testimony the other day, though I might like it better if he’d set it in an elementary school, with the audience as the press. Which is to say that he came close to a cartoon I’d have drawn, in which a kid asks for help […]