July 27 is the tenth anniversary of the death of gifted cartoonist Richard Thompson.  His tragic death at age of 58 was a great loss to the ...

  “You have to wake up every morning angry.” -- Pat Oliphant Last week I wrote an appreciation of the late great Pat Oliphant (1935-2026) i...

The False Gods by George Horace Lorimer was illustrated in 1906 by a young J.C. Leyendecker.  It is not mentioned in any of the reference b...

In the early1960s a flurry of coloring books appeared with grown up content.  Don't ask me why. Like children's coloring books, they...

Lynd Ward's 1929 book, God's Man,  came out at the wrong time and place.  At a time when full color reproductions on glossy pages in...

Done with Chat GPT in 2 minutes Freud famously claimed that the human race has suffered three great humiliations: The discovery by Copernicu...

"See what forest has arisen from the rot."  -- Susan Barba The Roman Colosseum was designed for the most brutal entertainments.  A...