Times-Dispatch editorial cartoonist Gary Brookins has a new Website. Go check out some of his excellent work.

Bill’s image is funny. I do intend to leave the basement someday soon.

I like the “House on Carters Mountain”. It reminds me of the abandoned farm houses my friends and I would stumble onto when I was a kid. Spooky places. There were always a few cars pushed into the woods out back....mid 50’s...no later. I always wondered who the people were and where they’d gone.

Bill,

That’s a good idea. Public cartoon posting. A picture says a thousand words.

Ed, can you draw a comic strip?  I can do something passable - I did an art minor (very minor) along with my Biology major in college. 

We could do dueling comic strips - your “point/counterpoint” where you draw me as a big, fat curmudgeonly white guy in a suit, sucking money our of people’s wallets and blood out of their hides, and I draw you sitting in front of the computer in the basement of your mom’s house in your tidy whities and major bedhead.

I call dibs on playing Dan Aykroyd to your Jane Curtin, just so’s I can say “Ed, you ignorant slut!”

In my unprofessional view he’s a terrific artist. Kudos.

Neither Pluggers nor his editorial work are my favorites, but I do like that genre in general and I do visit Brookins. Even though Shoe is not in my favorites list, once again, the mere fact I visit it at all is compliment enough.

Restoring the comics page to a full page was a good move. The front page is where the action is, which explains why so many dive into comics or the sports section.  Sometimes I wish T-D could do more with political satire.

Like a point-counterpoint series of cartoons, where one view is offset against another. Ah, not sure that could ever work. On the weekends, several cartoons displayed, but they are a hodgepodge variety of subjects, and often cliched views. Did political satire go out of style ?!

For that matter, did political debate go out of style ?!

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