A number of memorials to the memory of Tom Inge have appeared. A few of them have listed May 15th as the date of Tom’s death so, though we haven’t seen the family obituary, we have added that date to our own obituary. From the Popular Culture Association (you may have to scroll down to […]
In 1905 twenty-year-old Harry Conway (Bud) Fisher left Chicago for San Francisco where he got a job working for de Young’s Chronicle newspaper. It seems his theatrical portraits began appearing in the paper in November of 1905, with his sports cartooning splash coming on November 15, 1905. His caricature of Bob Fitzsimmons, an aging, freckled, […]
I dealt with Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open briefly yesterday, but it’s still getting a lot of attention, and I like Bill Bramhall’s take best. It’s a personal thing. She did what she needed to do for her own sake, and he frames that here. But it also has wider significance, which also […]