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Cartoonist John Callahan Was Offensive, Hilarious and One of Portland’s Own. Now, He’s Getting His Long-Delayed Close-Up. The cartoonist, who was paralyzed in a car accident at age 21, made a ...
John Callahan, a quadriplegic, alcoholic cartoonist whose work in newspapers and magazines made irreverent, impolitic sport of people with disabilities and diseases and those who would pity and ...
Spiky Cartoonist John Callahan Gets His Own Kind of Memorial. It Might Not Offend You. Callahan drew bad-mannered cartoons for WW for 26 years—with a message of moving forward.
John Callahan, the quadriplegic cartoonist whose famously politically incorrect humor generated both praise and criticism, has died. He was 59. Callahan died Saturday at Good Samaritan Hospital in ...
John Callahan, 59, the acerbic cartoonist responsible for those irreverent-to-polarizing drawings, died Saturday at a hospital in Portland, Ore. He was an alcoholic and a quadriplegic, ...
Portland-based cartoonist and musician John Callahan died Saturday morning at the Good Samaritan Hospital from complications related to his quadriplegia, according to brother Tom Callahan. He was 59.
Cartoonist John Callahan has died at age 59. He spent the last three decades of his life in a wheelchair, the result of a car accident, and created often tasteless and offensive cartoons dealing ...
Callahan was a paraplegic, recovered alcoholic who poked fun at people like himself. He died in 2010; the film Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot is based his life. First broadcast in '89 and '91.
John Callahan, the darkly humorous cartoonist who is the subject of Gus Van Sant’s movie “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot,” which opens Friday, spent July 22, 1972, on an epic ...
Marv Bondarowicz Cartoonist and author John Callahan died July 24. Back in the early ’80s, I was working at Cosmopolitan, going through unsolicited manuscripts, when a manila envelope of ...
“John Callahan,” wrote Comics Alliance writer Jason Michelitch, “was not politically incorrect. John Callahan was just plain wrong.” In one entirely typical cartoon, Callahan depicted an ...
You might not know the name or life story of cartoonist John Callahan, but you likely know his work. His most famous cartoon, “Thanks Evolution,” depicts the evolution of man, amoebas, fish ...