Jen Sorensen passes on some sad news: Though she doesn’t identify the paper I believe it was one of the Southland Publishing weeklies, which last year was purchased by the Arizona-based Times Media Group. “The Southland publications have always been special in their connection with the communities they serve,” [Steve Strickbine, president of Times […]
Balzac et Grandville: Une Fantaisie Mordante or Balzac and Grandville: (The Google Translation) The first illustrated newspapers of the beginning of the 19th century gave a lot of space to the engravings and to the commentaries which accompany them. In newsrooms, illustrators and editors rub shoulders. This is how Jean-Ignace Gérard dit Grandville and Honoré […]
National Football League quarterback and coach Sam Wyche has passed away. Samuel David (Sam) Wyche January 5, 1945 – January 2, 2020 Cincinnati Enquirer photo tribute. From the Cincinnati Enquirer of two years ago: …Wyche had been working on developing the no-huddle offense, which revolutionized the NFL and gave the Bengals an offensive edge over […]
Tom Toles offers one of the more depressing cartoons of this brand new year and decade. What’s happening in Australia is so far off the norm that we should all be horrified and focused: People are heading for the ocean, prepared to simply leap into the water to escape the bushfires destroying their towns. […]