Soupy Sales was before my time - but is fondly remembered by a generation of baby Boomers. And how can I resist Soupy's signature - the pie in the face?
Cartoon follows.
Henry Payne is the editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News.
A writer as well as a Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist, he produces five local cartoons a week, draws a weekly column called "Payne & Ink," a weekly auto cartoon for Autos Insider, and contributes occasional articles to the op-ed section.
Payne also produces six cartoons a week on national issues for United Feature Syndicate in New York which distributes his work to an additional 60 clients worldwide. His work has been reprinted in The New York Times, USA Today, and National Review.
As a writer, Payne is a regular contributor to National Review on economic, political and environmental issues, and his articles have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard magazine, Reason, and other publications.
This variety of work is all compiled here on his News blog page, as well as anything else that may be on his mind.
Payne came to The News in 1999 from Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, DC. He has published three books, including two children's books for Random House. Born in West Virginia in1962, Payne is a graduate of Princeton University. He is an active race car driver, and lives with wife and two children in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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