Postscripting
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Luann’s Weird Dream, Len Brown remembered, Graeme MacKay and The Rex Babin Award, The Baltimore Sun continues its A.I. obscenity, former McClatchy cartoonist Joel Pett on Newspaper Deathwatch, Big Nate Romance Comics, a P.C. Vey eulogy. The following is an eclectic collection of a few articles that can be considered updates to items posted here at The Daily Cartoonist. Some of the links will be included in the original TDC stories, some won’t.
Luann’s Weird Dream
Almost a year ago we made mention of Luann, Bernice, and Puddles being drawn into a wormhole of some sort. Now GoComics presents the entire sequence with an introduction by Karen Evans:
“There was a storyline that ran in the fall where Dad [Greg Evans] said, ‘I have this idea—it’s quick, I’ll do it.’ … I think he really enjoyed just being able to draw all over the place and not worry about some logical storyline…”
Len Brown Remembered
Last month Topps trading card Creative Director and comics aficionado Len Brown died. This week The Comics Journal posted John Kelly’s expansive obituary.
“During his four decades at Topps, Brown worked with scores of comic artists, including Wallace Wood, Basil Wolverton, Jack Davis, Jay Lynch, Art Spiegelman and many others to create bubble gum cards and stickers that delighted children and sometimes horrified their parents and teachers.
“‘Len was really good at having an 12-year-old’s brain,’ said Spiegelman, who worked with Brown at Topps for many years and on many projects.”
The obit includes memories of Brown from Mark New Garden, Roy Thomas, Art Spiegelman, co-workers Gary Gerani and Susan Konig, Monte Beauchamp, Sean Taggart, Jonathan Bayliss, and daughter Valerie Brown.
Graeme MacKay’s Rex Babin Award
Last weekend The Daily Cartoonist reported on the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention and the awards handed out. Graeme MacKay wasn’t able to personally accept his Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning but Annaliese Gumboc for his home newspaper The Hamilton Spectator talked to MacKay about the award (or here).
“It’s an acknowledgment that I don’t feel I’ve really gotten. It’s an award for local cartooning, and there really isn’t anything of the kind up in Canada, unfortunately,” said MacKay.
“I’m very happy to get this recognition,” he added. “It’s a real honour.”
Baltimore Sun’s Super Intelligent Editors Continue Using Artificial Intelligence Cartoons
We will continue to periodically bring up the shameful practice of the editors of The Baltimore Sun to continue prompting artificial intelligence to scrape the bottom of the barrel to “create” editorial cartoons.
Newspaper Deathwatch, A Continuing Story
Our most recent Newspaper Deathwatch edition reported on the recent McClatchy decimation of its reporters. Someone much closer to the McClatchy family of journalists, former Lexington Herald-Leader editorial cartoonist Joel Pett, shares his thoughts.
“I’ve had a couple of weeks to process the latest assault on the Lexington Herald-Leader. The two-decade slow motion train wreck finally jumped the tracks, ploughed into a disintegrating democracy, crashed, burned, and is now dangling over a precipice, twisting in the wind, awaiting a superhero savior who’s not coming. Howzat for a hyperbolic analogy?”
“If you’re not aware, McClatchy, and Chatham, the ravenous hedge fund that acquired the formerly proud California newspaper chain, put a pillow over the face of what remained of the Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, Lexington Herald-Leader, Idaho Statesman, and its other journalism properties. In Lexington, they fired an unimaginable thirteen newsroom staffers, leaving just eight or nine to cover… everything!”
Big Nate Daily Sidebar
The daily Big Nate comic strip ended earlier this year (the Sunday page continues) but reaction to the last few years of the dailies continue. One of the big changes at the end was Nate being involved in a successful romantic relationship. GoComics’ Andrew Addessi talked to Lincoln Peirce about that aspect.
“I thought that I would like for Nate to have a girlfriend in the late stages of the strip,” Peirce says in an interview with GoComics. “He’s had these romances that have ended badly…but I just like the idea of Nate having experienced enough character growth that he could have a relationship that the majority of readers would enjoy and see as a positive in his life.”
P. C. Vey Honored
The untimely death of cartoonist P.C. Vey hit many hard. This obituary by John Freeman includes links to many of the tributes. Written after the downthetubes report was an eulogy by Bob Eckstein.
“The Peter I knew was gentle, thoughtful and selectively funny. He was low-key with me. Maybe he always was.”
The New Yorker posted a slideshow gallery of Vey cartoons.
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