“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.” – Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely “He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full […]
David Hofstedt for Cowboys & Indians remembers Rick O’Shay and Stan Lynde. The year Rick O’Shay debuted there were more than 25 westerns on television. This was not a coincidence. “While a few of these series were very good, many were not really westerns at all,” Lynde wrote in his book Rick O’Shay, Hipshot, and […]
Peanuts and Halloween have become inextricably linked by way of The Great Pumpkin. Now… Visitors to corn mazes across the country are finding a familiar and joyous figure in the winding labyrinth of tall stalks. Snoopy. More than 80 farms in the U.S. and Canada have teamed up with Peanuts Worldwide to create “Peanuts”-themed mazes […]
Dave Whamond leads off today because he is one of the few cartoonists who made the name of the Democrats’ (purported) VP candidate into a pun that (A) works and (B) is politically relevant and (C) shows Whamond knows how the name is pronounced. I don’t think Trump paraphrases Reagan very often, but Whamond has […]