For well over 40 years, a fat orange cat has been a linchpin of American culture. It’s time to accept that. “The Secret to Appreciating Garfield” It’s late August, and I am cracking up as I read a brand-new Garfield comic. My appreciation for the comic partly stems from the elegance of the cartooning, the […]
Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell has written and illustrated a love letter to the comic books of his youth. “The Super Hero’s Journey is a fantastical dream-memory of my childhood infatuation with comic books, and a tale of the spiritual inner journey of reconnecting to the “super being” in us all. The book is a love […]
If I were doing politics today, I’d want to swap out the parents with Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty in this Wallace the Brave (AMS), because about the best you can say about current politics is that a 50% decency rate isn’t as bad as it could be. I’m not much into awards, […]