The Artists

Voted the most popular cartoon feature in the paper, The Quigmans is the demented brainchild of Texas cartoonist Buddy Hickerson. His bizarre drawings and twisted puns have ended up on some of the nation's finest refrigerators. (website: http://quigmans.com)

Maxine!, everybody's second favorite feature, is the work of another Texas cartoonist, Marian Henley, who holds forth regularly on men and women, the intimate relationships between them, American politics, and cats. (no website)

This cartoon feature from the pen of editor/publisher Mark Zepezauer is carried in over three papers nationwide. Going backwards from 1990 to 1776, US History Backwards will soon be published in book form by Tucson's See Sharp Press.

Santa Cruz, California cartoonist Tim Eagan, a recovering lawyer, created Subconscious Comics, about the variety of personalities living inside one man's head. It currently alternates with Eagan's political feature, Deep Cover. (website: http://www.lightworks.com/Cartoons/Subconscious/index.html)

L.A. Cucaracha is a weekly panel from East L.A. cartoonist and standup comedian Lalo Alcaraz. Alcaraz satirizes the intersections between Anglo and Latino culture, often seen through the eyes of a goatee-wearing cockroach. (website: http://www.caprica.com/~pocho/cuca.html)

San Francisco cartoonist Bill Griffith created Zippy 25 years ago. The non-sequitor-spouting microcephalic and his more rational alter ego, Griffy, comment wryly on the absurdities of American pop culture. Zippy fans are fiercely loyal to the feature. (website: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~culver/zippy/)

The nation's most popular gay cartoon feature, Dykes to Watch Out For is the work of Vermont cartoonist Alison Bechdel. It follows the lives, careers and relationships of a half a dozen urban lesbians, who often comment humorously on US politics. (website: http://www.winternet.com/~oprairie/)

Krazy Kat ran from 1911 to 1944, and attracted fans like Pablo Picasso, H.L. Mencken and Jack Kerouac. A freudian love triangle between a dog, a mouse and a kat, George Herriman's Krazy Kat is one of the most acclaimed cartoons of all time. (many websites; links are featured at http://www.krazy.com/start.htm)