Home-Groaned Humor

Reporters don’t like to admit it, but most readers don’t notice bylines. The same is true for cartoons.

Our moms may swell with pride when our stuff is printed, but nobody else pays a lick of attention to the signatures.

Sometimes, though, the pen-point of origin is noteworthy, especially considering that most national news is some cartoonist’s local news.

So when New York’s Walt Handelsman offers his substitute subterranean Ground Zero plan or Boston’s Dan Wasserman’s straight man rails about gay marriage, the humor has a ring of home-groaned authenticity.

Wichita’s Richard Crowson goes them both a journalistic shoe-leather step further.

Crowson scoped out the scoops at the so-called Kansas Monkey Trial for himself.

Cartoonists evolving into reporters.

I’m not sure, but I think that goes against natural law.