Stopped at the grocery store on the way back from the dog park tonight. There it was 5:30 at night, and there were people crowded around a little table to buy bunches of flowers and others — young, old, men, women — standing in the greeting card aisle, staring at the Valentine section in hopes […]
Fantastic news for Pickles creator Brian Crane. Washington Post Writers Group has announced that Pickles has crossed the 800 paper milestone earlier this month. It was first launched in 1990.From the WPWG:Crane began the strip 22 years ago, while he was working full time at an advertising agency. He would drive home, have dinner with […]
Hartford Courant editorial cartoonist Bob Englehart has been suspended without pay for a week over a blog post according to Daryl Cagle. As I mentioned yesterday, Bob wrote a critical blog post about the New Hampshire Governor’s education plan and used a poor choice in wording (“losers raise losers”). Both the paper and Bob have […]
There were — among the “I bought you some candy for me to eat” cartoons and the “Omigod I forgot Valentine’s Day” cartoons — some pretty good Valentine’s Day comics this year.But Agnes, as is her wont, cut through the sentiment and got right to the quick.Mind you, much of the charm of Agnes is […]