Only one quarter of grown-ass adults can correctly name all three branches of the U.S. government, according to a 2017 study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. This bad. This very bad. But a new project by Vermont’s Center for Cartoon Studies offers a glimmer of hope that the […]
Pia Guerra is one of the most poignant political cartoonists working today, yet she wasn’t even creating such art full time before President Donald Trump. Now, when human tragedy makes international news, Guerra is a go-to visual commentator for many readers. Partly because she comes out of the world of comic books, Guerra composes […]
It was the 1960s and Sam Gross began his cartooning career. Like other cartoonists he had a number of goals, but one was foremost. To paraphrase: not because it is easy, but because it is hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of his energies and skills, because that challenge […]
Occasionally cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy dreams of the Old Country. The Old Country is Newfoundland, the home of her mother and grandmother. Occasionally it is mentioned by name in Sandra’s Between Friends comic strip. It’s because Bell-Lundy has a strong connection — both her mother (Shirley Bell, nee Graham, age 85) and grandmother (Harriet Graham, nee […]
We still haven’t actually seen Eugene the Jeep in this week’s 1936 Thimble Theater, but there’s already a villain seeking to kidnap — jeepnap? — the little fellow. Wikipedia (mostly) disputes the story that Eugene inspired WWII GIs to refer to their small, go-anywhere vehicles as “Jeeps” but doesn’t explain why, or provide examples of […]