Topic: Cartoons

Why Does The New Yorker Run So Many Desert Island Cartoons?

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The desert island cartoon is one of those clichés we'd never thought to analyze too deeply until we read a smart cartoonist doing so, and now we're fascinated.

By Richard Lawson

Nov 9, 2011

'Family Circus' Cartoonist Bil Keane Dead at 89

Bil Keane, who created the popular Family Circus newspaper cartoon strip in 1960, has passed away at age 89, reports to the AP.

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