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Hare Tonic

The Locher Legend

Dick Locher Retires After Four Decades of Politics and Cops and Robbers

R.C. Harvey | August 26, 2013

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Helen E. Hokinson

One of the New Yorker’s Pace-setting Big Four

R.C. Harvey | July 22, 2013

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Bringing Up Father and the Rest of the Comic Page

Jiggs and George McManus

R.C. Harvey | June 17, 2013

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The Orphan’s Epic

How Annie and Her Dog Sandy Lasted for Almost 86 Years.

R.C. Harvey | May 20, 2013

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Making the World Safe for Insanity

The Absurdities of Vip

R.C. Harvey | March 28, 2013

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Stan Lynde, the Western, and the Spirit of Independence

Rich O’Shay, Latigo, The Price of Fame, and Pardners,

R.C. Harvey | February 28, 2013

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Growing Old in Gasoline Alley: Ninety-four Years And Counting

A multi-generational strip recalled.

R.C. Harvey | January 17, 2013

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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.

R.C. Harvey | December 6, 2012

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Mark Twain at the Drawing Board

H.T. Webster, A Timid Soul for the Ages

R.C. Harvey | November 7, 2012

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Chic’s Blondie

The life and times of Blondie, Dagwood and the family.

R.C. Harvey | September 13, 2012

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On Richard Thompson and Cul de Sac

The brilliant, playful and irrepressible art of Richard Thompson.

R.C. Harvey | August 22, 2012

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Milton Caniff, Steve Canyon and the Fair Sex

In 1948 the usually shrewd cartoonist misjudged his public’s appetite for the risqué.

R.C. Harvey | July 19, 2012

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Smilin’ Zack Mosley’s Wilder Blue Yonder

The bumpy beginnings and intriguing flight of Smilin’ Jack.

R.C. Harvey | June 25, 2012

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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.

R.C. Harvey | May 21, 2012

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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.

R.C. Harvey | April 10, 2012

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Johnny Hart to Appear B.C.

The life, times and beliefs of Johnny Hart, creator of the caveman comic strip B.C.

R.C. Harvey | March 22, 2012

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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.

R.C. Harvey | February 23, 2012

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One Good Apple Proves a Barrel’s Worth

Untangling the surprisingly confused origins of Mary Worth.

R.C. Harvey | January 30, 2012

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At Swords’ Point: Humor As Weapon

The Life and Ordeals of a Woman Cartoonist.

R.C. Harvey | December 19, 2011

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Jud Hurd and Cartoonist PROfiles

A remembrance of the late, great comic strip gadfly, Jud Hurd.

R.C. Harvey | October 21, 2011

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Max Eastman, The Masses and the Invention of the Modern Gag Cartoon

A Lost Moment in the History of Cartooning

R.C. Harvey | September 19, 2011

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Forty and Counting: Bill Griffith’s Zippy

Zippy, the character, not the comic strip, passed the forty-year milestone late last year.

R.C. Harvey | August 29, 2011

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John Goldwater, the Comics Code Authority, and Archie

How a Poor Orphan Boy Invented One but Not the Other.

R.C. Harvey | July 28, 2011

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The Rest of the Roast

Our man responds to the recent NCS video “kerfuffle”.

R.C. Harvey | July 1, 2011

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