For most of his career, Elston was commonly known as the only full-time editorial sports cartoonist in Canada, and he has a galaxy of autographs and framed keepsakes on display from the very same NHL personalities he was once paid to skewer. His work appeared in Canadian newspapers, as well as The Hockey News and, […]
Last month Brian Basset reported he had cancer surgery forcing Red and Rover into rerun status. In late June Red and Rover returned to new comic strips, then last week it was back to reruns. Darryl Heine contacted the cartoonist to ask why and Brian responded: This has been an extremely trying time for me. […]
When David Lee Finkle stopped creating new Mr. Fitz comic strips earlier this year he mentioned that he might return after taking a few months sabbatical from the deadlines. And so he has: The West Volusia Beacon, Mr. Fitz’s old print stomping ground, reports: They say if you love what you do, you’ll never work […]
Tony Dow’s death inspired Ruben Bolling to repost this Tom the Dancing Bug from 2012, which I liked then and I like now, not only because it pokes holes in the rightwing objections to liberal reform, but because it treats the original sitcom with more respect than it usually gets. “Leave It To Beaver” did […]