It has been nearly a month since Michael de Adder‘s last weekly cartoon for The Washington Post. Three years ago Michael, after freelancing for the paper, was signed as a contract cartoonist to The Washington Post and charged with supplying three cartoons a week. Over the years that was dropped to two cartoons a week. […]
Capp, Kitchen, and Comix; Hal Foster’s medieval masterpiece; The making of Wednesday Comics, DC’s weekly broadsheet comic book; Charles Dana Gibson educates Mr. Pipp; Flash Gordon and beautiful women. When Dennis Kitchen tried to get Al Capp to draw an underground comix cover. It’s hard to name an institution that represents the golden age of […]
David Rowe picks up on both themes for today: King Charlie has been diagnosed with cancer, and so has Uncle Sam, at least in the John Dean sense of there being a cancer on the presidency. We’ll get back to that second part. As for the King’s cancer, Matt is refreshingly sarcastic about the vague […]