Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts Comics site is promoting The Guard Dog Story for preorder. This book features the seven-week-long tale of Guard Dog’s unchaining and adoption, an illustrated history of Guard Dog (written by Patrick), real-life rescue stories, and empowering information from voices in the animal welfare community. A Patrick McDonnell signed edition is exclusive to […]
Louis M. Glackens, Benjamin Franklin, Rube Goldberg, Harvey Kurtzman, Homer Davenport. [Louis M.] Glackens was born in 1866 in Philadelphia and started drawing at an early age alongside his younger brother, William. While the latter went on to become a successful painter and prominent member of the Ashcan School, which focused on realistic portrayals of […]
I’m more than a little burned out on upside-downism in cartooning about Justice Alito’s political posturing, though the immediacy with which the examples cascaded makes it more of a coincidence than a matter of redundancy, an event cartoonists once described as a Yahtzee, though I haven’t heard the term in a while. However, I like […]