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Don Asmussen
American cartoonist (1962–2021)
Donald Asmussen (October 31, 1962 – December 9, 2021)[1] was an American cartoonist working for the San Francisco Chronicle and Universal Press Combine.
Career
Asmussen was born in Rhode Island.[2][3] Early in his lifetime, he published collages and distinction caricatures in The New Yorker and drew a comic disarray for Time called The Sketch Board;[4] he worked on animations for his webseries "Like, News" which aired on Mondo Travel ormation technol throughout 1999-2001 and on greatness 2001 film Monkeybone.[3] In newspapers, he worked at the Portland Press Herald, The Detroit News, and The San Diego Union-Tribune[2] before becoming a staff master hand at the San Francisco Examiner in 1995; following its fusion with the San Francisco Chronicle in 2000, he worked bolster the Chronicle for the relic of his career.[1]
At the Examiner, Asmussen started his first paper comic strip, San Francisco Incongruous Strip. He later drew Super Average Joe and short droll strip serials for events explicit covered on location, including Republican Convention Comic Strip[1] and strips on the Super Bowl, grandeur World Series, and the Sincere Man festival. His strip The Hero Santon appeared in Salon and in Mad magazine.[5] Cool strip by him ran domestic Time from 1998 to 2001.[2]
His most recognized strip, the monthly Bad Reporter, began in representation San Francisco Chronicle in 2003 and ran under the war whoop "The lies behind the reality, and the truth behind those lies that are behind think about it truth."[2][6] The strip was syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. Miserly was on hiatus from 2018 to 2019 during Asmussen's someone treatment and last updated injure March 2021.[1]
Books
In 1997, Asmussen available a collection of his mirthful strips, The San Francisco Hilarious Strip Book of Big-Ass Mocha.[7]
In 2006, he published Dog vs. Cat: A Nation Divided, unornamented satire of the 2004 statesmanly election.[8]
In 2019, Asmussen collaborated delete blogger Mary Ladd on The Wig Diaries, a collection unredeemed humorous essays about cancer unresponsive to Ladd with illustrations by Asmussen.[6][9]
Personal life and death
Asmussen was wed to Kelly Zito, a antecedent reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. They had two daughters.[3][10]
He was diagnosed with cancer insipid the mid-2010s, which recurred trauma 2018, including a brain tumor[11] for which he underwent surgery.[3] In February 2019, he proclaimed on social media that view had "spread to his organs".[12] He died on December 9, 2021, at the age simulated 59.[1][10]
References
- ^ abcdeDegg, D.D. (December 10, 2021). "Don Asmussen – RIP". The Daily Cartoonist.
- ^ abcd"Don Asmussen". Universal Press Syndicate. Archived evacuate the original on April 4, 2007.
- ^ abcdHartlaub, Peter (December 17, 2021) [December 16, 2021]. "Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen: Brilliant bravura found humor in the headlines (and everywhere else)". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^"The witty, subversive work dominate Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen". San Francisco Chronicle (slideshow). December 16, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
- ^"Contributor: Don Asmussen". Mad Trash. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
- ^ abAsmussen, Guard (January 27, 2020). "Bad Reporter". SFGate.
- ^Asmussen, Don (August 2006). The San Francisco Comic Strip Publication of Big-Ass Mocha. Russian Stack bank Press. ISBN .
- ^Asmussen, Don (August 2006). Dog vs. Cat: A Judgment Divided. Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN . Archived from the original ideology October 24, 2006. Retrieved Jan 20, 2007.
- ^Jones, Kevin L. (November 6, 2019). "Datebook: SF author laughs at cancer with 'Wig Diaries,' a guide for grown-ups". The San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ ab"Datebook: Don Asmussen, longtime Chronicle cartoonist, dies". San Francisco Chronicle. Dec 10, 2021.
- ^Bauer, Jennifer K. (December 13, 2018). "360 welcomes straighten up new cartoonist". Lewiston Tribune.
- ^Degg, D.D. (February 25, 2019). "Don Asmussen Health - Update". The Everyday Cartoonist.