Paul Winters has updated the status of Gahan Wilson showing him drawing.From Paul:He has been talking about how happy he is to be alive. I think he channeled it into his drawing. He called the creature a “happy monster”.The fund to provide care for Gahan has stalled at around 60% for a while now. If […]
It was a warm October day in 1962. I was a sophomore at South Side High School in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, excelling in art class, in other subjects, not so much. I was on the staff of the school newspaper as a cartoonist and illustrator. My goals in life were to be an illustrator like […]
The problem with creative people is they get more ideas than they can use in their regular line of work. Cartoonists are no exception. It was seven years ago this month when Leigh Rubin got the initial idea. Now, most of Rubin’s ideas get channeled into “Rubes,” the cartoon panel he creates that appears daily […]
The mirror-polished, stainless steel’s gleam is impossible to miss in Encore Boston Harbor’s garden esplanade. The Popeye sculpture bought by former Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn in 2014 has made it to its intended home five years later. The 6-foot-5, 2,000-pound sculpture was installed earlier this [month] by the garden esplanade and will remain wrapped […]
I recently likened Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to the middle-school bully who repeatedly pokes his finger in someone’s chest, hoping to get a response so he can say “He swung first.”Darrin Bell reverses things, and I don’t disagree. Can you imagine if Iran flew a drone off our Atlantic Coast and then tried to argue over […]