I’m currently working on a series for kids about Theodore Roosevelt and conservation, and, as part of that, was going through political cartoons of the era.This two page spread by Puck cartoonist L.M. Glackens ran in that publication in 1906, when William Randolph Hearst was a candidate for governor of New York (click on it […]
What, twice in four days? Well, yes, but this Ed Stein comic is his syndicated strip, “Freshly Squeezed,” about a family dealing with the new economy. Friday’s praise was for Ed Stein’s editorial cartoon about Europe dealing with the new economy.What can I say? The dude’s on a roll.Ed is one of the talented journalists […]
One of the old, hoary standbys of learning about political cartoons in high school is the list of symbols to be memorized: The bear is Russia, the bulldog is Great Britain, Uncle Sam is America, plus the list of landmarks like Big Ben, the Statue of Liberty, the Taj Mahal.We teach political cartoons the way […]
Ed Stein may be waxing nostalgic this week, as his new strip, “Freshly Squeezed,” shifts focus from the home to the office, where everyone except ownership is preparing to do more with less.”Freshly Squeezed” is a spinoff from “Denver Square,” a strip Ed did for The Rocky Mountain News for about a decade. Launched September […]
“Freshly Squeezed” is a comic strip by Ed Stein that went into syndication three months ago, but is based on a strip called “Denver Square” that he did for a little over a decade in the Rocky Mountain News.Which newspaper, you will note, no longer exists.Ed brought back the major characters from “Denver Square” […]