Good grief, adolescence is difficult. Luckily Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell found solidarity and guidance from The Peanuts Gang.
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The Feminist Paradox of Cathy Guisewite
A profile of Cathy Guisewite, the Baby Boomer creator of “Cathy,” the popular comic strip widely syndicated from 1976 to 2010, and the eponymous character’s conflicting concerns.
A Woman’s Work: Home Economics* (*I Took Woodworking Instead)
An illustrated personal essay in which New Yorker cartoonist Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Cartoonist Hustling for Money
Bob Mankoff created a successful business model for cartoonists to get paid. Then Condé Nast ruined it.
How Jazz Singer Baby Esther Jones Became Betty Boop
Gabrielle Bellot explores the original inspiration for Betty Boop—a black jazz singer with an iconic style and voice.
Godwin’s Law, Trump’s Era
“When we use Nazi imagery to describe Trump, nuance is lost.”
