Saying goodbye to recurring characters

I was working on a cartoon recently that includes a public figure whose time in the spotlight will soon be ending, and it got me thinking about how that kind of farewell happens quite a bit once you’ve spent a few years cartooning. It’s simply the nature of public life that time as a comment-worthy […]

The Browns – Nov 15, 1999

from the Daily Nebraskan Another cartoon accused of being racist. I was just trying to say how many good football players Nebraska had with the last name of Brown. Some thought the white woman was supposed to be OJ’s dead ex-wife Nicole Brown. This is why I don’t do nice cartoons anymore.

Fizgig! – Nov 2, 1999

from the Daily Nebraskan This was the first appearance of Fizgig the Bumbledog, a character that would appear many more times over the following years. He only showed up in this cartoon because I had left too much negative space. When looking for something to fill it, I saw the DN’s front page story on […]