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Award-winning journalist on four continents for the past 43 years. Been a press officer for the City of Newark, NJ, for the past 23 years. Two obsessions in life beyond my family: Baseball and history. Live and die with the Yankees and San Francisco Giants. Father was a talented cartoonist and historian of American comic strips, daughter is a talented cartoonist and uses that ability in doing interactive computer books for kids at a publishing company in New York.

Comics I Follow

Red and Rover

Red and Rover

By Brian Basset
Chuck Draws Things

Chuck Draws Things

By Chuck Mullin
Cat's Cafe

Cat's Cafe

By Matt Tarpley
False Knees

False Knees

By Joshua Barkman
Luann

Luann

By Greg Evans and Karen Evans

Recent Comments

  1. 4 days ago on Peanuts

    Britannica is erratic. The entry on the Federal Bureau of Investigation is written by “J.E.H.” That’s “J. Edgar Hoover.” He knew the agency, but his objectivity is questionable. The entry on Sam Rayburn was written by “L.B.J.” Again, questionable objectivity. On flatter subjects, medieval tapestry, atomic structure, geometry, it’s reliable.

  2. 4 days ago on Peanuts

    Me. I do.

  3. 8 days ago on Red and Rover

    I had to read “Call of the Wild” in the sixth grade. I HATED IT THEN AND I HATE IT NOW.

    It left me seared, furious, and devastated about this poor dog Buck, kidnapped from his loving family, smuggled to Alaska, winding up wild and among wolves.

    I can barely stand to see dogs turned in to animal shelters and put down. We had to do that ourselves once with an otherwise wonderful dog who bit a person…she was a victim of abuse before she went to the RSPCA.

    Dogs belong in loving homes. All dogs. They are no longer “wild animals.” They are not domesticated food source animals (cows, pigs, chickens). They are COMPANIONS, like cats and horses.

    There are few things in life I enjoy more than coming home at night to my dogs, who leap out of their dog bed, greet me at the door, tails wagging, and compete to see who will get chuckled under the chin first. Even if they’ve already been fed.

  4. 8 days ago on Red and Rover

    “Nop’s Trials” is the opposite…Nop goes through a lot of torment, but is re-united with his human, and wins a dog competition.

    In that book, the dogs talk to each other, and use “thee,” “thy,” and “thou,” which is interesting.

  5. 8 days ago on Red and Rover

    When I learned that ending, I refused to read the book or see the movie.

  6. 8 days ago on Red and Rover

    They probably are.

  7. 8 days ago on Red and Rover

    Our dogs who bark in their dreams do a similar “Whoop!” too.

  8. 9 days ago on Red and Rover

    I just wrote a note on Fred Basset about dog dreams…several of our dogs dreamed they were running. We could see their legs move. Emma the Blunder Dog dreamed she was nursing. We’d see her lips move. Other dogs would “yip” in their sleep. We didn’t know what that meant.

    Gemma Gen the Mass of Chaos and Sweetness, however, snores in her sleep.

  9. 9 days ago on JumpStart

    We have seen our dogs dream about running — their legs move — and nursing as puppies — their lips move.

    Sometimes they “yip” while asleep, and I’m not sure what that’s about.

    However, Gemma Gen, the Mass of Chaos and Sweetness, snores.

  10. 9 days ago on Fred Basset

    Depends on what they are…some are funny, some have important messages. As for me, I’m riveted to the commercials for Optimum with Chelsea Rose Cooke, because she’s stunning, and for Carshield, with Vivica A. Fox, because A. I’ve had a crush on her since I first saw her in “Independence Day” and B. she’s still got it going on at age 56. But that has nothing to do with the project they’re pitching…it’s about the fetching woman pitching it and me being a red-blooded heterosexual man.