For Yale Alumni Magazine Joshua Kendall ’81 offers what I believe is an excerpt from his forthcoming book about Garry Trudeau ’70. This concerns the Doonesbury comic strip during the second Gulf War: In the early years of his long-running strip, Trudeau repeatedly railed against the Vietnam War. “I got some hate mail for these […]
Kieran Castaño, who has drawn the Ripley’s Believe It or Not panel since 2021, parted ways with BION, Inc. The Daily Cartoonist asked Kieran who left who and, with Kieran’s permission, here is his reply: Kinda both. I was terminated by them after I decided to take time off for the holidays and lied to […]
I suppose we should have seen it coming a half century ago, when people started buying “Archie Bunker for President” merchandise. As I’ve said here often, I watched “All in the Family” for several weeks before deciding that sitting through 20 minutes of racist, sexist jokes wasn’t worth the three-minute “Aw, Archie! You’re so wrong!” […]