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In the Denis Kitchen, the MADness of Tom Richmond, a Jules Feiffer rarity, the last Scott Adams obituary, and Stephan Pastis as prophet.
Publisher, Editor, Free Speech Advocate, and Cartoonist
Ruben Bolling reviews Denis Kitchen‘s interview with Kim Munson at The Society of Illustrators.
Kitchen has had a fascinating and extensively influential career. He started as a “hippie” underground cartoonist. When he got fed up with dealing with an unscrupulous publisher, he decided in 1969 to self-publish.
As he prepared to publish his own comic book, fellow underground cartoonist Jay Lynch asked if he would publish his comic book too. Kitchen said, in “one of the stupidest things I ever said,” that publishing “two is as easy as one.” But that moment is what launched his second career, as a publisher of comics, and the founder of Kitchen Sink Press.
From 2009 is R. C. Harvey’s extensive profile of Denis Kitchen.
Tom Richmond as One of The Usual Gang of … MAD
Tom Richmond has wound down his timeline as an artist forMAD magazine, a fascinating inside look at the workings of the famed satire magazine from his 2000 beginnings to his latest in the current 2026 issue.
Tom supplies a few statistics from those two and a half decades:
Years: 25 years 3 months
Number of issues appeared in: 155
Total number of features drawn: 175
Covers: 7
Total interior pages: 714
All of Tom’s Mad Blog entries dealing with MAD magazine can be had here.
Jules Feiffer Rarity
On the one year anniversary of Jules Feiffer‘s death Dance Magazine presents a one page specialty strip.
The January 1961 issue of Dance Magazine included this satirical contribution from Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, then a handful of years into penning his long-running comic strip for the Village Voice, in which this unnamed dancer was a recurring character.
The Last Scott Adams Obituary
The Comics Journal has posted their obituary for cartoonist Scott Adams by Andrew Farago.
News of his passing was not unexpected, as Adams went public with his cancer diagnosis in May 2025…
The response to his passing, however, was unexpected to those who knew Adams only as the creator of Dilbert, one of the most successful comic strips of all time. Elon Musk, Fox News commentator Greg Gutfeld, Vice President J.D. Vance and President Donald Trump all offered their public condolences, none of whom mentioned Adams’s career as a best-selling author or award-winning cartoonist, but rather praised him as an influencer and podcaster.
Aside: Adams’ last minute conversion to Jesus Christ remains a subject of discussion.
…But Adams’ idiosyncratic deathbed conversion announcement has spawned a discourse more spiritual than political, reigniting age-old debates about Pascal’s Wager and the theology of Christian salvation.
…Paradoxically, Adams still describes himself as “not a believer” while asserting “I accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, and I look forward to spending an eternity with him.”
Pastis Predicts
It seems no matter how insane a circumstance seems the comics had already predicted it, in this case it is Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis from nearly ten years ago.
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