After more than 20 years on the job, Karen Moy ’87 still considers it “a blessing and an honor” to write the longtime daily comic strip “Mary Worth.” “The stories and characters reflect different societal problems in the country,” Moy says. “Mary doesn’t have all the answers, but she often ends up helping her neighbors, […]
The Garfield Movie, currently running on movie theaters (Rotten Tomatoes scoring much better by audiences than critics) prompted Cartoon Brew to revisit animated cartoons that were adapted from comic strips. Vincent Alexander notes: The history of adapting comic strips to animation goes all the way back to Little Nemo (1911), one of the earliest animated […]
Here sits the New York trial of Donald Trump for falsifying his campaign expenditures: The testimony is over, the jury is deliberating and, as Lisa Benson (Counterpoint) depicts it, both Republicans and Democrats are awaiting a verdict, along with the nation. She appears to suggest that, while the political parties see things in immediate, pragmatic […]