Cartoonists like to pull a switch, present a situation where the reader's expectations are met with something off-the-wall or different ...

Sheer pleasure for me is going through old issues of  The New Yorker,  looking at the cartoons. ( The New Yorker editors prefer the word “...

Alexander P. de Seversky was a Russian born in 1894. He became one of the first fighter pilots during World War I. He was shot down, lost a ...

Recently I was reading the Abrams book, Only What’s Necessary, Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts , when I came across a scan of the o...

Today my wife and I made some home improvements purchases at Lowe’s, over $1000 worth. I was happy to get a 10% discount because I am a vete...

Cartoonist Walt Kelly was the man who came up with the slogan, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” It is a pithy way of referring to peop...