At Home With Roz Chast: Parents Safely in the Closet

The cartoonist’s latest work chronicles her parents’ decline, and she finds a spot for them.

Lou Scheimer, TV Cartoon Producer, Dies at 84

Mr. Scheimer’s company, Filmation, produced “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids,” “The Archie Show” and “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe,” among other cartoon series.

    



Lawyer’s Graphic Novels, Anything but Brief

The lawyer Harry M. Brittenham, who has represented many of Hollywood’s most powerful executives and companies, is about to publish his latest graphic novel, “Shifter.”

    



Al Jaffee’s Work Is Going to Columbia

Al Jaffee, best known for the three-panel fold-ins in Mad magazine, is donating many of his cartoons, along with other material from his personal archives, to Columbia.

    

Stan Lynde, Creator of ‘Rick O’Shay’ Comic Strip, Dies at 81

Mr. Lynde’s syndicated work was set in the town of Conniption, and featured, in addition to the title character, the gunslinger Hipshot Percussion, the banker Mort Gage and a boy named Quyat Burp.

    

Prototype: The Comics Are Feeling the Pain of Print

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Will Elder | b. 1921: His Mad World

He had a love for juvenility that lasted a lifetime.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/magazine/28elder-t.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/magazine/28elder-t.html” border=”0″//a
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