Dan Perkins was born in Wichita, Kan., in 1961, back in the days when the future still existed. Like most good artists, Perkins, who cartoons under the pen name Tom Tomorrow, has never completely let go of his childhood and continues to be nurtured by the wellspring of creativity that comes with our first awareness […]
[Mike] Smith’s cartoon for the Sun on the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial was syndicated in the Los Angeles Times, and caught the eye of one of the people in the drawing — Judge Lance Ito. His office reached out saying Ito wanted a copy. Smith mentioned the phone call to executive editor Mike O’Callaghan, who […]
On March 1 we noted that the McClatchy group of newspapers had standardized their daily comics pages (see below). Today, with the help of Jimmy Delach, we can report that the Sunday McClatchy newspaper Funnies are also uniform across the nation. Jimmy sent me a copy of the Bradenton (Florida) Herald comics section of March […]
The Frontier, an Oklahoma-centric nonprofit news website, has announced that Tulsa based editorial cartoonist Bruce Plante will become a contributor. © Bruce Plante Opinion sections in newspapers have long been a way to present important viewpoints to readers from a diverse set of perspectives. With that being said, The Frontier will soon have an increased […]
Real Life Adventures (AMS) is more of an “Ain’t it the truth?” strip than a “Fall on the Floor” laugh-a-thon, and here Wise and Aldrich tap into something universal in the pandemic. My own pup, Suzi — seen here at the right in a conference with two of her friends from the park — knows exactly […]