Two years ago, in October 2017, Brian and Karen Fies’ home was among the thousands that burned to the ground in the infamous Tubbs Fire. In late March [2019], nearly 18 months after Fies and his wife Karen fled the wildfire that destroyed roughly 3,000 Santa Rosa homes and more than 5,300 countywide, they finally […]
Some Sunday comic strips (quite a few really) have a set grid of panels. Blondie has a nine-grid, Garfield has an eight-grid – always. Since not long after it’s 1970 debut Doonesbury has been set in a nine-panel Sunday layout. These constant layouts and panel sizes allow Sunday Color Comics Sections the option of squeezing […]
Ben Garrison is almost certainly the most reviled cartoonist among cartoonists, not because he is conservative — there are several conservative cartoonists in the “agree to disagree” category — but because he is ham-handed and, as seen in this recent piece, prone to concepts that, if not clinically paranoid, are at least doctrinaire to the […]