Baby Blues

[...] public appearance as a group. Here’s a look back at how one of our more popular series in Baby Blues came to be. In early 1992, my wife and I went to a concert—possibly the first since our second [...]

[...] BBXX: Baby Blues Decades 1 & 2 has received several great reviews online. There’s one in particular, by [...]

[...] (The Family Circus), Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Sam Viviano (MAD magazine) and I (Rick from Baby Blues)—traveled out to the Persian Gulf on a USO tour to draw for the troops. This time, mainly for [...]

[...] entire console between the front seats. So there we were, sipping our drinks and waiting for Dan Fogelberg to come out and sing to us. After a while, our drinks were getting low. I checked my watch. [...]

[...] Today is the birthdate of the late Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus. Here’s a repost from the Cartoonist Studio blog I wrote earlier [...]

[...] wounded. Packed into a C-130 over Iraq Opening the door after landing on the USS Enterprise The Arabian Sea behind the carrier USS Enterprise USS Enterprise on the Arabian Sea from the USS Vicksburg [...]

[...] before the next outage could leave us stranded soapy. Sweaty me out for some fresh air on the Arabian Sea. Dave Coverly on deck watching planes launch and land. For a few days my cartooning compadres [...]

[...] This year was the 67th Annual Reuben Awards dinner. In February, Tom Richmond, the president of the National Cartoonists Society informed me that I was nominated for the [...]

[...] In August 2012, six cartoonists—Jeff Bacon (Military Times/Broadside/Greenside), Tom Richmond (MAD magazine), Jeff Keane (The Family Circus), Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Sam Viviano (MAD [...]

[...] . Most of our time was spent among the 5,000+ sailors, Marines and flight squadrons on the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the oldest ship serving real duty in the Navy. It was on its last deployment. The [...]

[...] an appointment for me to meet him at his studio in his Paradise Valley home to interview him. Click photos to biggify He gave me directions, and when I got to the big mailbox with his famous signature [...]

[...] nature of our trip, this is the only photo of the USS Enterprise I’m allowed to show. Click photos to biggify. So what are the anniversaries? The first was a few days ago, November 25. On that [...]

[...] father did, and for the countless others who served our country in the military. While on USO tours, I’ve been lucky to meet many of them in some of the more outlying areas where they’re [...]

[...] ship’s bell with names of children. There’s hardly a better symbol of why we go on these USO tours than that ship’s bell—to bring a little bit of home out to those separated from their [...]

[...] of the late Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus. Here’s a repost from the Cartoonist Studio blog I wrote earlier this year. Baby Blues title panel tribute to Bil Keane from July 23, [...]