In a recurring background sometimes I’ll draw it once and then drop it in using Adobe Photoshop. Last week Jim Keefe showed us a process he uses on Sally Forth. It looks like Dave Clark read that and tried it on this week’s Barney & Clyde, though Dave Clark’s strip is thiiiis close […]
This is very complicated and, without my going to Youngstown and Warren, Ohio, and interviewing people, it’s not possible to be completely accurate, but, from here, it appears that comics may have delayed, perhaps even prevented, the destruction of a local paper. The Vindicator, Youngstown’s hometown newspaper, recently announced its death, leaving a significant city […]
Paul Berge’s current blog features a collection of 1919 cartoons about the “Summer Widower,” and he addresses it as something known only in those days. Not sure how old Paul is, but I caught the tail end of the phenomenon. There was a time, O Best Beloved, when people didn’t — couldn’t — go all […]