After more than forty years editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe has decided to retire.Chan has spent most of that time, 31 years, at the South Florida/Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, the past two years he has been contributing to the Berkshire Eagle.It was The Eagle that announced his retirement:A cartoon’s impact must happen in the reader’s mind, Lowe, […]
above: the famous B. Kliban cartoon, below: W. C. Morris from circa 1908Both the above and many more cartoonist related cartoons at Larry Rippee and Molly Rea‘s site. Here is a Cartoonists Day celebration from Richard Thompson. A couple cartoonist self-portraits: Unbelievably, not everyone loves cartoonists. Of course, when all is said and done…The above panel comes from a […]
In Wisconsin two neighboring newspapers, The (Racine) Journal Times and the Kenosha News (both Lee Enterprises publications), have finished counting the votes of their early 2019 survey and revealed their new comics page line-up.A line-up they are touting as “the Best of the Best.” Nearly 2,000 readers of The Journal Times and Kenosha News voted […]
My father used to get angry with my teenage self over “Yahbut,” which was how I too often responded to his corrections. “Yah, I hear what you’re saying, But here’s what I think.” At those moments, he hadn’t been intending to open a discussion, much less a debate.Well, there’s a lot of that going around […]