It’s Wednesday, the day set aside for Chef Peppi’s Cheap Thrills Cuisine – but no more. The last recipe on GoComics was January 27, 2021 (above); the contract was not renewed. If you are reading this soon after being posted the last couple entries are still up at the GoComics newspapers’ feeds (see The Oregonian) […]
Canadian artist and cartoonist Alan King has passed away. Alan Howard King1947 – February 8, 2021 Guy Badeaux is reporting the sad news and providing a profile: It is with great shock and sadness that I learned of the passing last night, at St. Michael’s hospital in Toronto, of Alan King, former editorial cartoonist at The […]
The Mountain Journal, a journalistic watchdog of The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, has recently engaged artist John Potter as an editorial cartoonist. The former cartoonist and illustrator for The Billings Gazette will contribute a weekly cartoon dedicated to preserving “the wildest landscape in the Lower 48.” The feature began with a February 3, 2021 issue. John […]
Henry Martin A little drawing appeared around Reunions in 1983. It showed a smiling tiger strolling into Murray-Dodge Hall to the new AA Haven, set up to support alumni during Princeton’s annual alcohol-laden bash. “It was just a little vignette, but it was lighthearted and it made the whole thing seem unthreatening. And thoroughly Princetonian,” […]
It’s been a tough week for people who enjoy competition. Sunday night, the Super Bowl, predicted to be a high-scoring gunfight, turned into a one-sided, boring affair, and then yesterday, the opening of Trump’s second impeachment trial did the same. Michael Ramirez (Creators) sums it up: Trump’s legal team barely showed up, opening with empty, […]