Peanuts, Pogo, and Hobbes: A Newspaper Editor’s Journey Through the World of Comics

In this memoir, Lockwood draws upon his forty years in the newspaper industry as a reporter and as an editor, offering a unique glimpse into the world of newspaper cartoon strips. He details the production and promotion of countless comic strips, while also providing his own assessments of the most iconic cartoonists of the last half-century. The book
is filled with fascinating anecdotes about his relationships with some of America's greatest cartoonists and the syndicate reps who sold their cartoon strips. Peanuts, Pogo, and Hobbes uses the story of one man's obsession with comic book heroes to give voice to a larger narrative about comic strips, their creators, the newspaper industry, and the era of American history that encompassed them all.

George Lockwood (1931-2013) spent forty years in journalism as a reporter and editor. A signal honor came when he supervised a three-part magazine series for the Milwaukee Journal on water pollution in Wisconsin, for which the newspaper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for meritorious public service. Lockwood was a distinguished professor of journalism at Marshall University in West Virginia and Louisiana State University. He is the editor of The Cartoons of R. A. Lewis, Milwaukee Journal.