Arnold Roth: Cartooning *Is* Fun!
« The kind of guy you’d love to have at your next cocktail party, he’s got a million hilarious anecdotes and he’s more than happy to tell them. » In the early days of this blog, we talked about American…
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Brilliance by the (Sam) Gross
« … while there are lines of taste that many cartoonists will not cross, Mr. Gross leaped over them, doused them with gasoline and lit them on fire, cackling as he did. » — Daniel E. Slotnik, from Gross’s NYT…
Unsettling Lands Between Girlhood and Womanhood: Trots and Bonnie
« Bonnie and Pepsi are obsessed with sex, but they’re not there for the male gaze. Their desire is frank and straightforward and more than a little demented, and it’s depicted with a bracing honesty that feels less like a…
Several Shades of M. K. Brown
« Women: what do they want? They might want to float into the sky while hosting a brunch party. They might want a couple of handsome cops to come over and get rid of a snake problem. They might seek…
Charles Rodrigues’ Pantheon of Scabrous Humour
« He works at night, which is fitting, since some of his best cartoons deal with the dark side of the psyche. A classic black humorist, he rummages around in violence, insanity, perversion, bigotry and scatology, looking for what he…
Your Usual Corner Table at Mule’s Diner
« There’s a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner. » — David Lynch…
Hallowe’en Countdown V, Day 10
« Ghost stories … tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us. » — Susan Hill We’ve once before turned our attention upon Dell’s Ghost Stories, an anthology title with…
A Most Instructive Visit to the Meyerowitz Aviary
« When birds burp, it must taste like bugs. » — Calvin Like John James Audubon (and Roger Daltrey, in his own inimitable fashion), Rick Meyerowitz (b. 1943, The Bronx, NY) clearly loves to draw birds. Mayerowitz, among numerous other…
Behold… the Great Shnozzola!
« That’s the conditions that prevail! » — Jimmy Durante Today, we salute noted vaudevillian, piano player, comedian, singer, film and radio star, raconteur and unlikely comics legend James Francis “Jimmy” Durante, born on this day, February 10, in 1893…
Rick Geary and The American Bystander
« You better watch out, you better not cry, better not pout, I’m telling you why —Santa Claus is coming to town. » — Haven Gillespie Taking stock, I can’t help feeling that the singular Rick Geary (b. 1946) is…
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