Health Sep 16 My dad’s death was nothing like I imagined Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final installment of cartoonist Jack Ohman’s series “The Care Package,” for PBS NewsHour. For years, Ohman imagined the moments leading up to his father’s death a thousand times, but when he… By Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee
Health May 26 The last time I went fishing with my dad Cartoonist Jack Ohman’s aging father was in no condition to go fishing, but when his dad said he wanted to go, Ohman spent days figuring out how to make the trip happen. By Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee
Nation May 07 Federal investigators knew one gunman wanted to attend controversial cartoon event in Texas Federal investigators knew that one of the two gunmen in an attempted attack outside a provocative cartoon contest in Texas might be interested in going to the event, but they had no information that he was going to commit violence,… By Eric Tucker, Associated Press
Health Apr 30 ‘Getting old ain’t for sissies’: Cartoonist Jack Ohman draws his dad’s final years When editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman sat down to illustrate his father's final years, he did not want to sugar-coat his own experiences providing four years of long term care. Otherwise, none of it was worth doing, he explained. By Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee
Jan 08 Watch 7:31 Death of cartoonists in Paris draws out passionate defense of free expression By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 21 Watch Paul Krugman on the ‘Cartoon Physics’ of the 2008 Crash Economist Paul Krugman discusses the causes of the 2008 Crash with Paul Solman. Continue watching
Jan 03 Laughing at Macroeconomics: The Cartoon Introduction By Elizabeth Shell Unemployment, inflation, poverty, exchange rates, monetary policy - everything that makes economics the 'dismal science' is made laughing stock with the macroeconomics edition of Yoram Bauman and Grady Klein's "Cartoon Introduction to Economics."… Continue reading
Mar 09 The Public Worker Battle, Cartoonified By Elizabeth Shell With all the strife over public sector unions, including irate e-mails in response to our pension coverage on the program, we thought we'd lighten the mood today by sharing some recent political cartoons. Continue reading