Cartoon Archives: Christmas 1991

Here's another project I've been batting around that I'd like some feedback on. See, I've been cartooning professionally since about 1991, and I've got a huge archive of cartoons that haven't seen the light of day for years. Most of them are editorial/politcal cartoons from the time I worked at The Repository in Canton, Ohio. Others are spot illustrations I did over my 15-year career in newspapers. Some of them are going to need a little explanation because they deal with current events that are over a decade old. Others, like the one at the upper left, are as funny today as they were then. Which is a shame.

But the question remains: Is it worth my time to scan these in and present them to you in some format?

Greystone Inn archives: The Book Tour

In 2001, my first collection of Greystone Inn comics was being published by Plan Nine Publishing. To promote this, I devoted a storyline to Argus and the gang going on a promotional book tour. Ham-handed caricatures abound in this one, including Oprah, Larry King, Katie Couric, and Howard Stern.

It also has an interesting passage in which Mac -- meeting up unexpectedly with an ex-girlfriend -- is not only beset by a shoulder-angel and a shoulder-devil, but miniature embodiments of his id, ego, super-ego, and conscience... all of whom compete to direct his response to her amorous advances.



It's a fun storyline and I bring it up solely because I'm thinking a lot about books and publishing today.

See, there's something big I've got to share with you guys.

...But that's a post for another day. :)

Frank Cho

Newsarama has posted part two of their interview with Avengers artist Frank Cho. It has some fantastic previews of his art. From the story: Now, before we move on to the best part of the interview where we discuss about the new ladies in your life, let's pick your brain on Civil War for a moment. Have you been following Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's blockbuster hit?

Read the whole story.

And if you missed Part One, click here.