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Showing posts with label cartooning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cartooning. Show all posts

Friday, February 13, 2015

So Long, Sparky

I'll be busy with a Model UN conference this weekend, but I couldn't let February 13th go by without acknowledging the death, fifteen years ago today, of Charles M. Schulz. Anything I can say about him is inadequate and I'll ramble on more about Schulz, Peanuts, and what they meant to me later this  year, so I'll keep this post short. Schulz was an icon of cartooning and one of my heroes, a simple, modest man who nevertheless created one of the most successful comic strips (maybe even the most successful comic strip) of all time. He is missed.

Oh, and the WordPress site is live, so if you want to look that over, feel free to.

Alex Adrian, 2/13/15

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Je Suis Charlie

[No footnotes this week. This post started as a journal entry of sorts, and I decided to make it my first official content of 2015 on a whim and because this is too imporant to pass up, as is my unofficial policy regarding acts of terror and other current events. The footnotes were omitted due to time constraints, and the fact that (ironically) this is too serious for my usual style.]
You should know what’s happened by now. If you don’t the BBC has good coverage. My thoughts, as an amateur cartoonist and political person, below the cut: