TERRY GROSS, HOST: David Sipress, welcome to FRESH AIR. I love your cartoons. Thank you for being here. Let’s start with your most published and tweeted cartoon. SIPRESS: I wrote that sometime during the ’90s. It’s not a New Yorker cartoon. I never can remember where it first started, but I think it was during […]
Not many local comic strips last 25 years, but Washashores by John Andert did – and does. The Provincetown Banner celebrates the accomplishment: In the Provincetown Banner issue of Thursday, March, 6, 1997— 25 years ago… Near the back, on page 21, was a new “Washashores” cartoon by John Andert. Then-Banner editor Hamilton Kahn had an […]
We are a week late in honoring Spanish cartoonist Josep Marti who was born February 28, 1932 and is now eligible for our Senior Stripper Club for cartoonists aged 90 and over. Spanish artist Josep Marti i Capell has drawn for various European publishers. He started out with realistic western and war stories for the […]
Reply All (WPWG) not only suggests taking a break from the Weight of It All, but explains how we manage to get by without pondering such things. I laughed at the punchline, but it set me thinking about Neil Postman’s classic “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” which, in turn, leads me to think of the mud-spattered, […]