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After more than four decades as a cartoonist — including two separate stints at this paper — Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Walt Handelsman is embarking on his next chapter, a well-earned ...

Americans love a great satirist: Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, and more recently the likes of Jon Stewart, John Oliver, and Andy Borowitz. But no one has done it more caustically, more ...

Among many other accomplishments, he illustrated a scholarly work on the history of comic books and wrote record reviews in four-panel comic-strip form. By Jeré Longman John Peck, a cultural omnivore ...