
Getting a chuckle
SUMMARY: John Rose ('86) uses humor to give readers an escape from the pressures and worries of daily life.
The road to establishing John Rose’s (’86) career as a cartoonist was paved with a lunchtime meal of Cocoa Puffs—which he’d one day choke on following a phone call from Fred Lasswell, the cartoonist behind the renowned Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comics.
He’d sent Lasswell a packet of work samples, expecting to receive rejection. It was common in the industry to face multiple “thanks,