Here is April’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper.
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Here is March’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper.
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Here is February’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper.
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Jeff Bezos doesn’t understand why people liked The Washington Post. Therefore, he might as well wreck it.
When I was barely making enough money to pay my rent and was eating Ramen noodles and bagged salad for dinner every night, I still scraped up enough money to buy a Sunday copy of The Washington Post every week.
Later, I subscribed to the weekly edition of the newspaper, and then, when it went online, the digital version.
For most American journalists in the 1990s and early 2000s — especially those of us aspiring to break into the business — The Washington Post was very nearly the platonic ideal of what you wanted a big-city newspaper to be. It had everything: Serious news coverage, biting editorial columns and cartoons, and a very lively “Style” section and Sunday magazine.
Continue reading “Post-apocalypse”Here is January’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper.
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Here is December’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper.
Sorry for the delayed posts — I’ve been sick for most of the last three weeks and things got away from me.
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper.
Those Pittsburghers of a certain age will remember Pa Pitt, the personification of Pittsburgh popularized by the late Cy Hungerford, cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for almost 50 years. I have to admit, getting to draw Pa Pitt gave me goosebumps and I’m tempted to do it more often.
The cartoon itself is based on a 1992 cartoon by another legendary cartoonist Herb “Herblock” Block of the Washington Post, called “Your name Clinton?” I hope neither Mr. Hungerford or Mr. Block, wherever they are, are mad at me for stealing their ideas; I tried to give credit where credit is due.
Here’s Hungerford’s Pa Pitt:
And the Herblock cartoon to which I’m paying homage:
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper.
Drawing this cartoon, I learned that it’s surprisingly hard to figure out whether or not X the Owl and Lady Elaine Fairchilde have feet, because we only ever see them above the waist. So I made some guesses.
You can find a No Kings march here: https://www.nokings.org/
The League of Women Voters is sponsoring two events in Pittsburgh: https://lwvpgh.org/content.aspx?page_id=4002&club_id=554754&item_id=2732729
And there’s more information on Mobilize: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/790386/
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper.
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper.
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
