Cartoonist Chris Browne has passed away. Christopher Kelly (Chris) Browne May 16, 1952 – February 4, 2023 Update from the obituary: Chris Browne, illustrator of the internationally-syndicated comic strip Hagar the Horrible, died here on February 4, 2023, after a long illness. He was 70 years old. Christopher Kelly Browne was born in South Orange, […]
A few updates to some items posted this past week about cartoonists Dan Martin, Mike Marland, and Barbara Brandon-Croft. Two days ago we reported on Dan Martin retiring from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That same day Dan wrote a farewell column to his readers at that paper. In 1980, I knew the journalism business was […]
Seven years ago Bob Englehart and The Hartford Courant parted ways, since then Bob has continued as a freelance political cartoonist syndicated by Cagle Cartoons. Now Bob is again associated with a newspaper. From the Associated Press coverage of a new newspaper startup (via The Arkansas Democrat Gazette): WINSTED, Conn. — At age 88, Ralph […]
Cartoon coverage of last night’s State of the Union Address began in advance, and Scott Stantis (Counterpoint) echoed the Clay Bennett cartoon featured here yesterday: The State of the Union is disunion. Reasonable people can disagree, but, then again, reasonable people can also agree, and, while Stantis and Bennett are from opposite sides of the […]