Mt. Pleasant © Rick McKee & Kent Sligh; distributed by Tribune Content Agency Mt. Pleasant is a forthcoming comic strip from Rick McKee and Kent Sligh. Claude and Eunice Lutum thought they’d be spending their golden years relaxing on their farm, affectionately known as Mt. Pleasant. They thought wrong. Like many folks their age, they’ve […]
In 2001 Jim Borgman published a popular book that evolved into other forms, such as playing/flash cards and a poster. © Jim Borgman Editorial cartoonist Kevin Necessary remembers that poster: I woke up from a nap today and immediately defaulted to my baseline state of anxiety. I then thought about Jim Borgman’s “How Are You […]
Dick Tracy © Tribune Content Agency You may have seen that the November 1, 2020 Sunday Dick Tracy page ended with a notice (and if you hadn’t forget about becoming a detective in the Major Crimes Unit): Mark Barnard had, just two months earlier, written a special Dick Tracy Minit Mystery. Before that short story […]
The classic political cartoon from the disputed election of 1876 is this Joseph Keppler piece in which NY Senator Roscoe Conking is seen blessing, in a Satanic sense, the union of Rutherford B. Hayes with Columbia, the symbol of the nation. Since I’m working the polls today and don’t have time to post a contemporary […]