Mickey Trigiani

The Creative Agonies of Ed Franklin

The Creative Agonies of Ed Franklin

Despite 16 years of accomplishments, he feels too contained, too controlled by The Globe and Mail: "Sometimes, they edit the vitality right out of a cartoon"

He had built him out of spaghetti. The great opera singer, Luciano Pavarottiwas nothing but a mass of noodles, long and stringy, oozing out of a classic black tuxedo. The cartoonist looked at his creation and almost smiled. He leaned back for a moment and glanced out the window of his studio in Clarence Square. […]