Cartoon outrage is becoming tedious, as is the need to explain once more why being offended is not just cause for battle. ...more

March 2, 2009

St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church plans a three-night Lenten Mission to help relieve stress in people's lives. ...more

February 25, 2009

The head of the NAACP on Saturday urged readers to boycott the New York Post, calling a cartoon that the newspaper published an invitation to assassinate President Barack Obama. ...more

February 21, 2009

It would be terribly presumptuous to compare myself with John Updike, arguably the greatest American author in the past half-century, and who he died after a brief illness a few days ago. Updike produced over 50 novels, many winning Pulitzer Prizes, National Book awards, and just about every other gold-embossed literary honor. ...more

February 1, 2009

Rueben Schaffer says he would like to be a cartoonist or a NASCAR driver when he grows up. ...more

December 17, 2008

Cartoonist Lynn Johnston can't bring herself to abandon her fictional family. For years, the "For Better or for Worse" creator mulled retirement, then lightened her workload by creating flashbacks and repurposing the archives of her popular comic. Finally, she knew she needed to conclude the Patterson family's 29-year saga. ...more

August 31, 2008

If you'd told Pfc. Leonard Noreen a month ago he would be getting national attention for the World War II military canteen cup he lost more than 60 years ago, he wouldn't have believed you. ...more

August 25, 2008

"Cartoonist" Paul Coombs of Tribune Media Services owes an apology to the citizens of New Hampshire for the tasteless, offensive caricature that appeared in yesterday's edition of The Tampa Tribune. If it was meant to lampoon a candidate or a political party, it missed the mark and only serves to insult conscientious and patriotic Americans. It offended me, and I'm a registered Republican! ...more

January 11, 2008

Garry Trudeau says topics in his 'Doonesbury' comic strip that were at first shocking to some readers aren't so anymore, such as one character's revelation 30 years ago that he was gay. ...more

October 25, 2007