About

It’s all about Griffith Park, baby! Let’s keep it wild and safe. And let’s keep Silver Lake birds and animals alive, and the water clean.

I’ll bring up all the things that annoy me, and what I’m doing to change them. Your comments and opinions are welcome. (Assuming you’re not one of the annoying ones.) (Just kidding.) (I hope.)

Curious about this Silver Lake runner and Griffith Park ranter? Donna Barstow.

I’ve lived in Silver Lake and Los Feliz for over 25 years. I was part of the PROS Committee in Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council and am on the Housing & Tenants Rights Committee in the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council. We do good things.

Jill Stewart writes about how I fight City Hall.

I wrote several articles for the LA Weekly, including my fave: CAN CANADA’S KILLER COYOTE SPECIES SHOW UP IN LOS ANGELES?

Editorial in Los Feliz Ledger, another casualty of Covid, as of December, 2021. :(

Cartoonist for New Yorker, Parade, Psychology Today

More at donnabarstow.com. My political and editorial cartoons for LA Daily News, Newsweek, USA Today, etc, are at  The Opposite of Wrong. I’m in the LA Press Club, and I also fix scripts.

You can also find my cartoons in over 100 other magazines and papers. (Harvard Business Review, Barron’s, Glamour, etc.) I’m a proud member of the Finer Things Club.

My two newest books are What Do Women REALLY Want? Chocolate! and Love Me or Go To Hell: True Love Cartoons. One is a book about sweets, and one is for your sweetie.

 

 

Press on Donna Barstow Cartoons

Excerpts from LA Times and Universal Syndicate:

• Actually, We Bring You Art Every Single Week, LA Times Magazine — Rick Wartzman, Editor
  Before you soak in the stunning imagery in this special issue of West, please turn back to page 5, if you missed it. That’s where one of my favorite pieces of art resides. I am referring to Donna Barstow’s cartoon…
• I started working with Donna after many phone discussions about the nature of editorial cartoons, and the flexibility of the genre. There was an opportunity to try something different, and we embarked on it together. Her work is unique in both style and viewpoint. Her work ethic is unmatched as she strives to create cartoons that are relevant, unusual, and very pointed (and often quite hilarious) — Shena Wolf, Editor  Universal Press Syndicate

Columnist and cartoonist for PsychCentral for 9 years. (Recently bought by Healthline, and almost all articles and cartoons gone. :( )

My comments on cartoonists of color, in LA Observed.

Listed in Muck Rack.

Back when GoComics valued originality. I was one of the most popular editorial cartoonists in their stable, 2nd to Ted Rall, but when I complained about the pitiful pay they replaced me with a guy.

More from Go Comics, about half way down the page.

Susan Perry, in Psychology Today, on how I come up with cartoon ideas.

Barstow wasn’t one of those kids who was always doodling, however. She knew it was the caption that was most critical. “After you read the words below the picture, your eyes go to the illustration,” she told me in a recent interview, “and, if it’s a good cartoon, you laugh in surprise.”