At Comic-Con this year, I was struck by the number of prominent cartoonists who lectured on the virtues of simplicity. Jim Davis, who p...

A sketch of a pebble may be a greater artistic achievement than a full color painting of the Grand Canyon.  An allegorical picture with gran...

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Mort Drucker and asked him about this drawing for the MAD Magazine spoof of the movie, The He...

  The brilliant Richard Thompson, an artist of immense gifts and creator of the last great comic strip, Cul de Sac , passed away today. ...

   One of the most exciting developments at San Diego Comic-Con was the world release of Phil Hale's new book, Let's Kill Johnny...

Mort Drucker On this date in 1925, the famous Scopes "monkey trial" began in Dayton, Tennessee.  High school teacher John S...

The pictures in comic strips today have become less ambitious and imaginative. Prince Valiant, 1942 The strips which first establis...