Lucien De Gieter, born September 4, 1932, turns 90 today and becomes one of The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Strippers. Lucien’s entry at the Lambiek Comiclopedia: Lucien De Gieter is a Belgian comic artist, since the 1960s a prominent artist for Spirou magazine and best known for his comic series ‘Papyrus’. De Gieter began his association […]
A new Trubble Town book is the rational for a new Stephan Pastis interview. © Stephan Pastis STEPHAN: Yes, I’m sure I will be doing that once again. I try to draw 14 Pearls strips every week that I’m home, which buys me 26 free weeks a year to write other books and travel. […]
The Waco Tribune-Herald informed readers of major changes coming: In two weeks the Tribune-Herald will roll out a complete overhaul of our daily comics and puzzles pages, as well as our Sunday comics section. Readers tend to react passionately when we change mainstays in the paper, so consider this a heads-up. We’re shifting our focus […]
Mr. Boffo reminds me of when I got a subscription to the New Yorker for donating to my NPR station. I enjoyed leafing through and looking at the cartoons, but, while the articles were well-written and interesting, I couldn’t plow through them before another issue arrived. It was like some literary form of the Sorceror’s […]