Chicago Tribune Cartoonist Carey Orr A newspaper cartoon is a combination of two basic arts — the art of writing and the art of drawing — and the best cartoon is one with the best idea expressed by a snappy caption and good craftsmanship, says Carey Cassius Orr, recent Pulitzer Prize winner, who has […]
Through some bit of snafu I get a preview of comic strips from two weeks in the future… but when I open my local weekend paper I get last week’s Doonesbury:
Here’s a cartoon from Mike Keefe and an explanation from me of today’s headline. We had a pair of brilliant musical wits working as counselors at summer camp who collaborated on a hilarious play in which the King was a tyrannical nitwit, and I wish I could remember all the lyrics to his grand processional, […]
An actual lesson… How To Be A Cartoonist by Chas. H. Kuhn Kuhn was a working cartoonist who created freelance illustrations, editorial cartoons, and a syndicated comic strip for half a century, from 1919 to 1969. His comic strip “Grandma,” which I hadn’t heard of, began in 1947 when he was 55 years old […]