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...weight. It's a 20-pounder, Mom! It can alternate as a murder weapon." He says there's not much profit in it for him, despite the fact that, as he says, at $135, it costs about one car payment. "It's just a very cool thing for a cartoonist to have. It's my death book...
...Larson says, he never grew up dreaming of being a cartoonist. He just tried it one afternoon, after deciding his music-store job was too awful to go to anymore. He sold the six panels he drew that day to a local magazine, then others to the Seattle Times and later got a syndication deal through the San Francisco Chronicle. Though he liked the gig--and knew he was good at it--his love has always been jazz guitar, which he plays for several hours a day, occasionally sneaking into a band with friends to play at local weddings...
...McDonnell, of "Mutts," turns in a charming confection about the moon's rather silly fear of the dark. Other contributions include the ghoulish tale of a children's graveyard party, written by Neil Gaiman ("Sandman: Endless Nights") and drawn by Gahan Wilson, a long-time "Playboy" and "New Yorker" cartoonist known for his grotesqueries. While the all-ages target of "Little Lit" means that some pieces are more difficult and other very simple, none of the works can be called un-intelligent or boring. It's a delight...
DIED. WARREN KREMER, 82, lead cartoonist for Harvey Comics who, with the company's editor and publisher, created Richie Rich, the "poor little rich boy" introduced in 1953 who became Harvey's most popular character; in Glen Ridge, N.J. During his 35 years at Harvey, Kremer painted countless comic-book covers and helped develop such other characters as Hot Stuff and Casper the Friendly Ghost...
...book and contain straight autobiography juxtaposed to comicbook tropes. One remarkable piece appears to be a superhero story, but all the words, including the onomatopoeia, read together as a short memoir of the author's childhood. But none of it gets lugubrious, since Ware remains at bottom a humor cartoonist. Painfully funny, his sharp wit specializes in an alternative kind of schadenfreude: a kind where we feel we are laughing at our own misery...