Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 18, 2023

Snappy answers to stupid questions and Fold-ins were definitely genius!!!

Retirement?

600 more days…not that I’m counting…

Also Sam Gross! RIP.

Unfortunately, because of economics, some other cartoonists keep working till their last day even when they no longer have the ability.

Don’t forget Charles Schultz.

Charles Shulz.

Reg Smythe!

All missed greatly by those needing a laugh.

Enjoyed the New Yorker for years, especially its cartoonists and caricaturists. True talent.

George Herriman: “Herriman died in his sleep in his home on April 25, 1944, after a long illness. An incompletely inked penciling of a week’s worth of daily strips was found on his drawing board.” wiki

And then there’s Bill Watterson.

Is this some kind of foreshadowing Mr. Mallet?

Richard Thompson.

Booth & Koren were New Yorker cartoonists; Al Jaffee worked for Mad.

Bill Watterson and Gary Larson were evidently able to retire well before they keeled over and are apparently still living comfortably off of the royalties they’re pulling in based on their splendid work during their productive years. And they’ll be remembered fondly for decades due to the high percentage of original, quality work they produced, as opposed to, say, Ernie Bushmiller,, Jim Davis, or Mort Walker.

But for my money, the all-time champ in that department is gracing us daily with his work here on GoComics: Wiley Miller!

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoonist-is-coming

If you’re doing cartoons as your full-time job, it’s because you love it and you’re really good at it. If that characterizes what you do, is it what most of us would call work? Or is it a delightful occupation that, magically enough, pays the bills? Of course I’m sure there are things about it that aren’t fun; there are things like that in any occupation. But when we talk about work, we’re not usually talking about having fun—rather the opposite.

This little kid knows their work, because of course she does

Sam Gross. Bruce McCall.

“Find a job you love to do, and you’ll never work a day on your life.”

Jef Mallett: You’re a cartoonist AND a genius.

I wish GoComics had a Love button to click.