I just finished an illustration job for a national magazine in France, on stereotypical views the French have about Americans. It was a nice article; the French like us now. The article explains that the stereotypes aren’t true.
The French editors put a lot of thought into exactly what the most, stereotypical American would look like, [...]

I asked our cartoonist, Larry Wright for acomment on the big announcement that the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press are cutting back home delivery to three days a week. Larry worked as a cartoonist employee [...]

I’ve never paid much attention to Canadian politics and I’ve never really understood the cartoons that my colleagues north of the border draw.
But lately, the Canadian political cartoons have taken on a frantic tone and I asked [...]

In the YouTube video below, Brian Duffy, who was recently laid off from the Des Moines Register, talks about about getting the boot on a local television interview. Thanks to Rob Tornoe for the link.

Thanks to my fan, Hannah VanNoorloos, for putting up a Facebook fan page for me, and for letting me know that such a thing existed. I’m clueless about these things. I uploaded a batch of cartoons to [...]

I was sorry to read that Brian Duffy was laid off today. Brian was famous for being one of only two cartoonists in the nation who’s cartoon appeared on the front page of the newspaper every day [...]

I’m sorry to write that George Cratcha, the editor of the Funny Times, the newspaper tabloid monthly, has died. George got to know the editorial cartoonists by coming to the AAEC conventions [...]

I haven’t updated the cartoonist job loss rolls recently. The most recent full time cartoonists to get pink slips are: Erick Devericks, the talented, young cartoonist for the Seattle Times, who has been a long time contributor [...]

President Bush declared California a federal disaster area today. My column below berates President Carter for failing to do that in 1977. I haven’t had much occasion to write this before, but … thanks, President Bush.

A mandatory evacuation remains in effect for my neighborhood in Montecito after the devastating “Tea Fire” this week. My son and I stayed at my house longer than we should have, filling the cars with keepsakes and [...]