You’d think that Jef Mallett, noted endurance athlete, overall health freak and occasional wearer of Spandex, would join in the cartoonists’ chorus of routinely decrying hunting.But he’s a native Michigander and a bluecollar guy at heart and I suspect he grew up with an understanding of where it all fits into local lifestyles and economics, […]
As I’ve noted before, Arlo & Janis’s cat, Ludwig, is a realistic feline. I’d go so far as to say that he is the most realistic pet in all of comicdom, and part of that is evident in his facial expressions today. Cats have an innocent ability to live in the moment that dogs do […]
On the Fastrack, one of Bill Hobrook’s three daily strips (!), is office humor, which tends to be a little tedious, but Hobrook has mitigated that threat by centering on high tech humor and letting the Dagwood/Dithers cliches at least play out in a more focused arena. There are days it is incredibly geeky […]
Wednesday is usually a day for one-off gag strips, because all the story arcs are pretty well in motion and it’s hard to bring readers who haven’t been following them up to date, and they’re not delivering punchlines yet anyway, so there’s really no point in trying.However, Cul de Sac tends to operate on a […]
I don’t know if Keith Knight is feeling introspective because his strip, “Knight Life,” just turned two years old, or because (as he plugs here) he’s got his first collection out. But here’s an inside look at the work of one of about half a dozen cartoonists who I could put in this spot almost […]
(This is a profile of “Mutts” cartoonist Patrick McDonnell that I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY) To begin with, the rotary dial telephone doesn’t really work.But it’s not entirely out of place, there in the background of the picture,along with the analog clock. The candle, admittedly, is a bit of […]