We ran an obituary for cartoonist Jerry Palen last week. But… Many people knew him as a fellow rancher, others through his iconic characters Elmo and Flo in his syndicated comic strip “Stampede,” the most widely syndicated cartoon in both the U.S. and Canada. Still others will remember Jerry Palen as the sculptor, artist […]
So I’m watching the Cowboys and the Saints on Thursday Night Football halfheartedly when on the screen pops up a comic artist’s idealization of some National Football League player. “The whole mission is to exaggerate features of players,” Hartley said. “There’s no way Drew Brees is that buffed out, but [we wanted to] kind of […]
Harry Bliss (AMS) lives about 20 miles south of me, which makes us neighbors, since he no doubt comes up here to the Big City (population 13,623) for anything more exotic than milk and bread. We have, however, never met, which is much of the appeal of country living: Robert Frost wrote disapprovingly of good […]