Jack Higgins (2) (1954–2024)

Jack Higgins is a long-time Chicago editorial cartoonist who has won the Pulitzer Prize and is something of a Chicago icon. This collection of his work is arranged roughly by category and spans most of his career, although more heavily slanted toward recent years. The cartoons are fine, well-drawn, funny and pointed. The main drawback of the book is the lack of annotation; for a collection with a significant number of local Chicago editorial 'toons, this is a big minus for the non-Chicagoan reader. The few pages of text aren't adequate; what was really needed was a blurb for each cartoon, and a more specific date for each one than the copyright year. Still a nice collection by a good editorial cartoonist who shows an interesting mix of conservative and liberal views.… (mere)