The Locher Legend
Dick Locher Retires After Four Decades of Politics and Cops and Robbers
Hare Tonic
Articles
Stan Lynde, the Western, and the Spirit of Independence
Rich O’Shay, Latigo, The Price of Fame, and Pardners,
Growing Old in Gasoline Alley: Ninety-four Years And Counting
A multi-generational strip recalled.
John T. McCutcheon, Dean of American Cartoonists: Adventurer and Inventor of the Slow Ball
When The Chicago Tribune was a serious newspaper back in the early 20th Century, it ran a cartoon on the front page, above the fold—every day. And for over 40 years, that cartoon was drawn by John McCutcheon, an unlikely suspect.
On Richard Thompson and Cul de Sac
The brilliant, playful and irrepressible art of Richard Thompson.
Milton Caniff, Steve Canyon and the Fair Sex
In 1948 the usually shrewd cartoonist misjudged his public’s appetite for the risqué.
Smilin’ Zack Mosley’s Wilder Blue Yonder
The bumpy beginnings and intriguing flight of Smilin’ Jack.
A Stretch in the Bone Age: The Life and Cartooning Genius of V.T. Hamlin
The Harv turns his historical gaze upon the creator of Alley Oop.
The Lawrence Welk of Cartoonists: Ernie, Nancy, and the Bushmiller Society
Bushmiller refined his art, honed it to its barest essentials, and thereby produced a comic strip that in many respects was the very apotheosis of a comic strip.
Johnny Hart to Appear B.C.
The life, times and beliefs of Johnny Hart, creator of the caveman comic strip B.C.
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith: Billy DeBeck, Fred Lasswell, and John Rose
A legacy comic born out of a rollicking time and steered by three artists over many decades.
One Good Apple Proves a Barrel’s Worth
Untangling the surprisingly confused origins of Mary Worth.
Jud Hurd and Cartoonist PROfiles
A remembrance of the late, great comic strip gadfly, Jud Hurd.
Max Eastman, The Masses and the Invention of the Modern Gag Cartoon
A Lost Moment in the History of Cartooning
Forty and Counting: Bill Griffith’s Zippy
Zippy, the character, not the comic strip, passed the forty-year milestone late last year.
John Goldwater, the Comics Code Authority, and Archie
How a Poor Orphan Boy Invented One but Not the Other.
