Funnies Farrago Celebrates a Half Century of Doonesbury
Taking a look back at the beginnings of the multi-talented Garry Trudeau’s ‘Doonesbury’ comic strip. G. B. Trudeau has been producing his comic strip Doonesbury for over 50 … Read more
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Who Really Invented the Comic Character ‘Archie’?
Funnies Farrago reveals who, actually, invented Archie. THE COMIC BOOK Archie is so durable an American cultural artifact that it is surprising to discover that the newspaper comic … Read more
Dick Wright Returns
Funnies Farrago welcomes back Dick Wright — one of those all-too-rare great conservative editorial cartoonists. I started seeing editoons signed “Dick Wright” about a year ago. I was … Read more
Funnies Farrago and the Age of Schulz
How Charles Schulz and his Peanuts strip re-shaped the comics medium. When he announced his retirement after producing a comic strip every day, seven days a week, for … Read more
Mister Oswald
Funnies Farrago encounters the longest-running comic strip: Mister Oswald. IN 1968 WHEN A BOOK COLLECTION of Mister Oswald was published, Forty Years with Mister Oswald, almost no one … Read more
Farrago Funnies: Fay King, Prize-Fighting Cartoonist
Fay King: The greatest woman cartoonist, caricaturist and ‘kidder’ in the world — and where did she disappear to? IF FAY KING HADN’T MARRIED A PRIZE FIGHTER named … Read more
Why Bob Mankoff Left ‘The New Yorker’
Funnies Farrago Explains: Bob Mankoff left “The New Yorker” as cartoon editor after a couple decades on the job — what was that really about? So why, actually, … Read more
Ray Billingsley Gets the Reuben
Funnies Farrago celebrates the first African-American to get the Reuben Trophy for Cartoonist of the Year. The National Cartoonists Society made history on a week or so ago … Read more
Peter Arno and the Untrammeled Life
The Roaring Twenties and the Essence of The New Yorker: Funnies Farrago Meets Peter Arno. THE DECADE THAT HAS ENTERED AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY as “the roaring twenties” was created, … Read more
Funnies Farrago Meets Edward Gorey and the Eccentric Macabre
Edward Gorey could make us shiver as we grinned and vice versa (mostly vice). Author and artist, ballet enthusiast nonpareil, cat lover extraordinaire and master of the spectacularly unassuming … Read more
