Mark Arnold interviews Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice actor behind Tony the Tiger and many other characters. Note: This interview originally appeared in Hogan’s… more »
Comics History
Not a Bird, Not a Plane…
For this post, we depart from our customary practice of presenting archival material from Hogan’s Alley. We recently came into possession of a… more »
Comics History
Funny Business: The Rise and Fall of Johnstone and Cushing
Dik Browne ran through the lobby shrieking, his bloody shirt tattered and flapping in his wake. Al Stenzel, art director at Johnstone and… more »
Comics History
The Oral History of SpongeBob SquarePants
More than a decade has passed since Stephen Hillenburg’s porous protagonist established Bikini Bottom as a must-see outpost of popular culture. Tom Heintjes… more »
Biographical
Swine Connoisseur: The Stephan Pastis Interview
Stephan Pastis—the creator of the bracingly acerbic Pearls Before Swine—talks to Tom Heintjes about lucky breaks, practicing law and why you don’t mess… more »
Biographical
Ethel Hays, Pioneering Female Cartoonist
Allan Holtz looks at the life and career of trailblazing cartoonist Ethel Hays. The current fashion in academia is to discuss cartoonists in… more »
Biographical
The Thin Black Line: Jay Irving and His Cartoon Cops
Rob Stolzer surveys the life and art of Jay Irving, the cartoonist who brought law and order to the comics page. A bigfoot… more »
Biographical
Bullwinkle Speaks! An Interview With Bill Scott
By Jim Korkis (This interview was originally published in Hogan’s Alley #17.) Bill Scott was born in Philadelphia on Aug. 2, 1920, and… more »
Features
Happiness Is a Newspaper Tour: A Peanuts Oddity
We recently stumbled across this gem (props to longtime Hogan’s Alley reader Harry McCracken for resurrecting it years ago) and wanted to share… more »
Interviews
BEK to the Drawing Board: An Interview with Bruce Eric Kaplan
By Tom Heintjes (Note: This interview was originally published in Hogan’s Alley #9, 2001.) Who among us hasn’t at one time fashioned a… more »
