Let’s talk. I’m Mike Thompson, the newly minted staff editorial cartoonist for the Star Tribune. I’m picking up the torch from my legendary predecessor and good friend Steve Sack, who retired from the position last year. This job is a homecoming for me. I was born in Mankato and grew up in south Minneapolis, and […]
Bill Griffith and Ernie Bushmiller, Rick Stromoski, Barbara Brandon-Croft, King Features Syndicate, Pogo It’s been a long time coming but we’ll soon have it in our hands. ICv2 reminds of an upcoming Bill Griffith book: Bill Griffith, creator of the long-running Zippy comic strip, takes a fellow cartoonist and the history of comic strips themselves […]
Bruce MacKinnon got the most out of the Space X launch. For all the horse laughs at Musk’s expense, he had only predicted a 50% chance of success and some people who seem to know about this stuff agree with him that it was a necessary way to learn about what works and what doesn’t […]