Tuesday’s Assorted Comics Overflow
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Doonesbury, Hot Rods and Drag Cartoons, Climate Change Panels, and a return to Sally Forth.
Smithsonian Reviews G. B. Trudeau Biography
From the current issue of Smithsonian Magazine Brandon Tensley reviews Trudeau & Doonesbury.
Trudeau has long managed to stay out of the public eye. In Trudeau & Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News Into Art, the first major biography of the artist, journalist Joshua Kendall offers a definitive and inviting account of Trudeau’s career, based on archives and interviews—including with politicians who were on the receiving end of his barbs.
Kendall takes us from Saranac Lake, the village in the Adirondack Mountains where Trudeau, as a precocious elementary schooler, exactingly directed plays in his family’s home (“I was a little dictator,” he jokes), to Yale University. There, as an undergraduate, around 1970, Trudeau first confronted war, as the Vietnam draft lottery loomed over him and his classmates. A scarred upper digestive tract saved Trudeau from being conscripted.
Hot Rods and Racing Cars and CARtoons
Indiana Gazette columnist Greg Zyla remembers Hot Rod and Drag Racing comics.
My introduction came through two specific publications — the comic book Hot Rods and Racing Cars and the national magazine Hot Rod, a Petersen Publishing title from Los Angeles…
By 1958, I was a full-time subscriber to Hot Rod, thanks to my parents and a parochial school magazine fundraiser. I also remember cartoonists like Pete Millar, one of the early pioneers whose work eventually led to his co-founding of CARtoons magazine with Carl Kohler. When CARtoons hit the market, I was nearly dizzy with enthusiasm.
Other notable contributors included George Trosley, Dave Deal and Robert Williams, all of whom captured the joy and absurdity of the hot rod hobby in print.
Everything changed when Ed “Big Daddy” Roth arrived with his monster-like, always-grinning Rat Fink characters. Roth’s creations were the furthest thing from normal…
Alongside the magazines were comic books, especially those featuring Clint Curtis. For young readers like me, Clint was not just a character. He built cars, raced them, learned mechanical lessons and navigated life with grease under his fingernails.
Cartoon series: News from the animal world
While global warming has pushed mosquitoes to Iceland, forced elephants to evolve tusklessness, cobras are pushed to higher altitudes. Here’s a [nine takes] on how habitat loss is threatening various species, enlightening our readers by lightening their mood.
Credit Where Credit is Due Dept.
Craig MacIntosh began drawing the Sally Forth comic strip in 1991. After 22 years he turned the art chores over to Jim Keefe and retired from the strip. Almost.
Every once in a while he returned. One of those times was for the week of July 13-18, 2015.
Jim Keefe tells of Craig returning to the comic strip as a favor.
Back in 2015 my wife Deb and I were planning a trip to Ireland to coincide with our 20th Anniversary and both of us turning 50 that year. Lots of stuff to prep, like the fact that I had never been overseas before, so I needed to finally get a passport.
And of course that meant getting ahead on deadlines as well. So I turned to Craig Macintosh (Sally Forth’s previous artist) and asked him if he could pencil a week’s worth of strips so I could get them done faster.
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