The 2024 season of KPBS’ Comics culture has kicked off by interviewing Heathcliff cartoonist Peter Gallagher. Famed for weirdness, Peter discusses how the weirdness must be a natural occurrence, not forced. Also Peter talks of cartoonists block, his preference to physical (pen and paper) over digital, his love of being able to draw backgrounds in […]
Ill health took a toll on Walt Kelly and Pogo. By the early 1970s friends and family were pitching in more and more hoping the creator would recover enough to return to the strip full time. That, alas, did not happen. In 1973 Walt Kelly died. So widow Selby Kelly with Don Morgan, Henry Shikuma, […]
The political scene is incredibly toxic, with Ron DeSantis and his merry band of supremacists creating an astonishing false reality with which to program the next generation. However, both George Wallace and Dr. MacLeod have jumped on this outrageous lie. I’ve got nothing to add except to thank them: We need decent people to speak […]