Freelance editorial cartoonist Jake Fuller has lost his spot at The Gainesville Sun due to bad timing and an inattentive opinion page editor. A cartoon using domestic violence as an analogy was published two days after a double homicide, but Jake’s deadline, which he met, was two days before the tragedy. WCJB Gainesville reports: A […]
There’s no comic strip that epitomized the ’80s as well as Bloom County. That is how Ultimate Classic Rock begins their article celebrating forty years since Bloom County debuted. Writer Tyler Sage continues: Unlike current nostalgia-laden depictions of the ’80s, what the comic highlights is how acerbically pop culture was riffed on at the time. […]
It’s hard to rank all the disparate pieces of news these days, but let’s start with the destruction of the Republican Party, which isn’t really “news,” since it is part of a process that began a generation or so ago, when Newt Gingrich and his cohorts began a transformation that saw a lot of right-leaning […]