Rupert Kinnard was a guest speaker during my freshman English course at Portland State University a decade ago. The legendary artist and former Willamette Week associate art director highlighted his life’s work, including Cathartic Comics. The four-panel black-and-white comic strip introduced the world to the Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé, the world’s first weekly […]
Hat tip to Nancy and Ernie Bushmiller for today’s headline. So is Lois now just an ersatz Ed McMahon, a second banana to the rest of the Flagston family? You youngsters can ask the elders in your family about Ed and the all-knowing Carnac. While you’re at it ask your grandparents what the movie experience […]
I hope Ratt is right. He seems to be right about who is to blame and why. These aren’t the only suspects, but they’re the main figures in the process, which is less a conspiracy than a flow that includes past politicians like Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist, and entertainment figures who have created a […]