John Callahan, 59, the acerbic cartoonist responsible for those irreverent-to-polarizing drawings, died Saturday in Portland, Ore.

One cartoon displays an aerobics instructor telling quadriplegic exercisers, "O.K., lets get those eyeballs moving." Another showed a man sitting at a bar with two prosthetic hooks for hands as ...

John Callahan is in his wheelchair today, where he’s been since age 21, when an auto accident in Long Beach rendered him quadriplegic. In his 1990 memoir, “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on ...

John Callahan was born in 1951, started drinking regularly around 1964, was a passenger in a car accident that left him a quadriplegic in 1972, joined Alcoholics Anonymous in 1978, ...

Gus Van Sant narrates this scene from “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot’ featuring Joaquin Phoenix as the disabled cartoonist John Callahan. Here, Callahan operates an electric ...