Artist and illustrator Gerald Lazare has passed away. Gerald John (Jerry) Lazare September 25, 1927 – March 23, 2021painter, illustrator, comic artistGerald Lazare began his professional art career creating comic books for Canada’s Bell Features during World War II after U.S. comic books were banned.From the Comic Book Daily entry:He was still 15 and he […]
New Award Contest from The National Society for Newspaper ColumnistsThe NSNC has added new categories for their contest this year, editorial cartooning is a new one.The NSNC notes that This category is for entries from all printed periodicals, including weeklies, magazines and specialty publications, regardless of circulation as well as all online publications (including multimedia […]
I’m rising to a point of personal privilege today, because my father was born March 28, 1921, in Ironwood, Michigan, which deserves some fanfare at least at my house, and so here’s the local paper his father might have read in the waiting room at the hospital.The Supreme Court had just ruled that money made […]