After a several-decade hiatus from cartooning and 13 years away from Louisville, Michael Ray returns to cartooning. Previously, he was published in the esteemed local alt-press, including CityPaper, MainStreet, Louisville Artist Magazine, and spent a handful of years at the University of Louisville Cardinal (starting in the mid-seventies “shudder”). He is unapologetically still a liberal hippie. His work will appear as the muse strikes him.
“With Halloween approaching, I wanted to touch on the legacy of Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts, one of the greatest cartoon strips of all time. I started doing Peanuts strips for junior high school posters back in the day, and that got me into this stuff.
“It also worked for this cartoon since I was going to touch on many subjects. So I also worked in full color for a change. Pumpkin patches without color look too squiggly in his style, which is why most of them were in Sunday strips.”
