For those of you not following the story: For more than 100 years, a split-rail fence on the Carnegie Mellon University campus has been used by students to share promotional messages. Fraternities and sororities paint it during rush week; student organizations promote events; individual students share opinions.
Because it’s CMU, an entire arcane and byzantine set of rules governs when and how the Fence may be painted.
Ahead of a visit by President Trump, students painted the fence to say “No Rapists on Our Campus” and “Shame on You.”
CMU’s president, Farnam Jahanian, ordered university employees to go out and paint over the message.
(For months, the stores near my home have already looked like they were out of business, with empty shelves and no stock on basic items such as Band-Aids, cotton balls and other drug store staples.)
Supposedly, there has been a lot of discussion around the country among community development officers about what to do with to do with all of the vacant Rite Aid locations that will soon be blighting small-town and neighborhood business districts.
Cartoon by Jay Togyer says, “With dozens of Rite Aid Stores around Pittsburgh getting ready to close, what should replace them?” Pittsburgh themed suggestions include “Sip ‘n’ Paint Parking Chairs,” “Pre-Owned Smiley Cookie Outlet,” “Museum of Steelers Quarterback Controversies,” and then an unidentified woman interrupts to say, “How about a drug store not owned by venture capital jagoffs …” who herself is then interrupted by the cartoonist.
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. The theme is the April 29 storm that knocked out power to a large section of the county — in some neighborhoods, for several days:
Incidentally, I do not see Print before it goes to … well, print. I was surprised to see that the photo on the front page, about the storm, looked so much like my cartoon. Great minds? I’ll have to ask Ann Belser, the editor, if the cartoon influenced her photo choice.
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.
Interestingly (or maybe not), I only started working in color recently. Most of my cartoons have been in black-and-white. This cartoon, I think, may work better in black-and-white (and that’s how I’m considering posting it at Tube City Almanac):
