In the 1990s Dave Blazek and John Gilpin were working for the Philadelphia Inquirer when they thought it would be a good idea to combine their talents, Gilpin as artist and Blazek as humorist, and try out a comic panel. According to sources the panel began 25 years and a couple weeks ago. I couldn’t […]
The 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalists and winners were announced today. For the category of Illustrated Reporting and Commentary the finalists were Matt Davies, of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. Mona Chalabi, Contributor, The New York Times Pia Guerra, contributor, The Washington Post and the winner is Mona Chalabi, contributor, The New York Times For striking illustrations […]
Cartoonist Sam Gross has passed away. Saturday Review, Argosy, True, Good Housekeeping, Rogue, Gent, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Playboy, Penthouse, Punch, Harvard Business Review, Parenting Magazine, Smokers Magazine, The American Bystander, Comopolitan, and so on. And, of course, The New Yorker. Jason Chatfield in his paean to Sam: I’m devastated to hear that today, one […]
Discussion in the comments section the other day revealed quite a bit of confusion around the term “pun” and the term “shaggy dog story.” I promised to try to straighten it out today, and, by sheer luck, Pearls Before Swine (AMS) offered not only a festival of puns on Sunday but skipped its usual last-panel […]