News this week that Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, author and screenwriter, has passed away at the age of 95.

I didn’t know Feiffer – our paths had crossed once or twice at National Cartoonists Society events – but I do have a couple of anecdotes about him that still make me laugh,…

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My mum’s favorite actor was Humphrey Bogart, so as a kid growing up in England, I was raised on a steady diet of old black & white “Bogey” movies on British TV. In my teens, my bedroom wall was plastered with posters of Rod Stewart, Richie Havens, Marc Bolan and Stephen Stills … and pride of place was a giant still of Bogart in one of the greatest movie…

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For the last few years, Tokyo Comic Con has been a fixture on the calendar for me and my son, fellow cartoonist Luke McGarry. This was our fourth time appearing at the event, which has been held at the giant Makuhari Messe center in Tokyo in December since 2016.

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There’s an old adage in cartooning which says that you should always write about what you know. So perhaps it is no coincidence that “Mullets,” the daily comic strip that Rick Stromoski and I created in the early 2000s, featured a pair of complete and utter idiots.

Within minutes of meeting Rick for the first time, at the 1996 National Cartoonists Society

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I’m old enough to remember the first episode of “Doctor Who” airing on the BBC the day after JFK was murdered. It was Saturday teatime, I was 10 years old and, like most kids my age, I was immediately enthralled by the show and fasc…

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Back in the early to mid-1980s, when I was still based in Britain, I used to do quite a bit of illustration work for World International. Based in my home city of Manchester, which meant that I could visit the offices in person to pick up a brief and later drop off the artwork, they specialized in p…

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I’ve featured the “amazing Amazon” in a three or four of the series I’ve created over the years, most notably in my Sunday newspaper comic “Biographic,” where I looked at the history of Wonder …

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My “Biographic” comic has been running in newspapers for almost two decades now and it has been a vague tradition of mine, if I remember, to feature someone or something spooky in the strip around this time of year. I say “if I remember” because Sunday comics are created at least five weeks in advance and sometimes I forget that Halloween is coming up, …

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As both Evander Holyfield and Tommy “the Hitman” Hearns celebrated birthdays this past weekend, it reminded me of what a convoluted process it was to feature them in my Sunday comics in the pre-digital age. So I thought I might look back at the hoops artists had to go through to get our work on “the funny pages” back in the day. And while I’m at it, wh…

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It’s one year this week since the passing of my old friend and collaborator, cartoonist Tony Husband. In London for a Private Eye magazine party on a Thames barge, Tony suffered a heart attack on Westminster Bridge. He was 73.

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For my inaugural foray into Substack, I thought it might be appropriate to feature someone who has been a regular subject of mine over the years … and as this week marks 61 years since the U.K. premiere of the second James Bond movie “From Russia With Love,” that was just the flimsy excuse I needed to share some of my artwork centered around the star o…

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