Cartographer Kevin Cannon draws a lot into his cartoon maps. But he may have outdone himself with his Minnesota Star Fair poster. From the MinnPost: In late spring 2019, Minneapolis-based cartoonist and illustrator Kevin Cannon learned that he had been chosen as the Minnesota State Fair’s commemorative artist for 2020. Unfortunately, due to The Covid, […]
If “the medium is the message,” what’s that say about Barbara Dale‘s latest canvas? What did you do during the pandemic? One local cartoonist has quite the answer. Barbara Dale used the materials she had at hand to chronicle a year none of us will ever forget — and the materials at hand just happened […]
Brian Fies is a cartoonist from Santa Rosa, California. On October 9, 2017 wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,900 structures were destroyed. He wrote an 18-page webcomic to describe and deal with the fire and the losses it brought to his family and community. Fies later […]
The New York Times and The Washington Post have published obituaries for Andrews McMeel Universal co-founder John P. McMeel. From The New York Times: John McMeel, co-founder of what began as a basement operation in a rented ranch house in Kansas, with a mail drop on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and grew […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) outlines a glitch in a free society, or at least in this one, which is that Power can still gain an advantage by keeping its populace frightened and insecure. The easier to eat you with, my dear. And, in a capitalist system that does not rein in monopolies or keep private enterprise […]