Timing John McPherson, who drew this weeks (months?) ago, gets the Good Timing Award this week. When I hear Mark Trail canon I think Ed Dodd canon. Turns out to be earlier this year Jules Rivera canon. There was a time, way before your time Dear Reader, when an insert called Parade was an ever-present […]
Jeff Darcy, who has been an editorial cartoonist at The Cleveland Plain Dealer for 33 years, is retiring. From today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer is Jeff’s message to his fellow PD staffers: After nearly 40 years producing Editorial Cartoons for Cleveland newspapers, the last 32 with The Plain Dealer/Cleveland.com, I’m sorry to say, “So long,” as […]
Arctic Circle makes a point that has long bedeviled me, because I don’t live on the seaside. I also don’t toss away a lot of plastic, though I realize much that goes into recycling bins winds up not being recycled. Meanwhile, landfills have had liners for quite a while and, however much plastic may leak […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, is also turning 20 years old this year. They had a small gallery celebration Friday and, since I drive through WRJ several a day, I dropped by to see the place. I got a kick out of Alison Bechdel‘s piece, which was on the wall […]