Part memoir, part rigorously researched historical perspective, Drabble's book is a multi-layered look at jigsaw puzzles and their role through the ages for society, individuals, and herself; it's ...

The presence of “drab” in Margaret Drabble’s name is at times all too appropriate. No foul mood, no patch of grey London weather, no bit of street detritus (whether human or nonhuman) goes unmentioned ...

Norman Drabble hasn’t aged much over the years but “Drabble,” the comic strip that bears his name, turns 40 today — not that Kevin Fagan planned to make any fuss about it. But his son, Brian Fagan, ...

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1965, Margaret Drabble’s slim third novel tells the story of a single woman who gets pregnant and decides to keep the baby and raise it on her own. But to see this book as primarily ...

There's a kind of story that is undeniably "Margaret Drabble." In it, an ordinary woman faces extraordinary circumstances. She is fiercely intelligent, her dilemma bracingly modern, her surroundings ...

Kevin Fagan was the youngest syndicated cartoonist in the country when he introduced the comic strip Drabble in 1979; the Sun-Times quickly picked it up and I’ve been reading it ever since. For years ...

When I think of the writers I worshiped when I was starting out in life, I always think of Margaret Drabble. She was 20 years older than I, but the serious, hip, intellectual British novelist whose ...

Cartoonist Kevin Fagan grew up idolizing Charles M. Schulz and “Peanuts.” Now that his own comic strip, “Drabble,” is turning 45 this week, Fagan is contemplating his long run in the funny pages and ...

A daily comic strip is only four panels. Non-cartoonists look at that and think, “That’s easy. I could do that.” But most people are unfamiliar with the work behind those four panels, the creative ...