As I read through this book, I can’t keep from thinking about Dennis Ketchum. You know him as the kid in Dennis the Menace. His father featured him in a single panel strip, and that strip made him (the father, not Dennis) a millionaire. From aPeople Magazine article,from 1993, we ...
This quatrain was reprinted on August 5, 1906 by The Academy, a London literary magazine which challenged its readers to come up with English equivalents (they were in short supply at the time). The first verse, at least, used to be taught to French schoolchildren. The last verse is a ...
How do you describe a book that is so original, creative and wacky that the best comparison to it is to MAD Magazine? (Fitting since Al Jaffee, the legendary MAD cartoonist and creator of the fold-in cover, wrote the forward to it.) We’re talking about Patent Illustrator Tom Giesler’...
I first learned of Louise W. King’s queer comedies fromBarbara Grier’scapsule book reviews (written as Gene Damon) in the 1960s lesbian magazineThe Ladder. “If ever a novel could rightly be termed Gay, this is it,” she wrote of King’s first book,The Day We Were Mostly Butterflies...
After the war, Kästner became magazine editor of Die Neue Zeitung of Munich and subsequently founded a children’s paper. From 1952 to 1962 he was president of the German branch of PEN, an international organization of writers. His post-World War II works are characterized by a greater ...
In an exclusive report forNew Hampshire Magazine, I found the artist and got the scoop. The 50th anniversary edition of Wacky Packages put a modern spin on the original 1967 spoofs of consumer products. You can read the full storyhere. ...
The magazine is described almost daily as I a hate rag." Yet Prodigy's censors often reject even mild and factual rebuttals of such charges as "insulting."Despite a near media blackout, and such invective directed at publications that defy it, Americans, do continue to support the USS ...
Apollo Magazine, London. Brewer, Forrest, and Jean W. Brewer 1971 Vocabulario de Tetelcingo, Morelos. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico. Bricker, Victoria R. 1973 Ritual Humor in Highland Chiapas. University of Texas Press, Austin. 1981 The Indian Christ, the Indian King: The Historical ...
Published in the July 31, 1950 issue ofQuickmagazine, Mrs. Le Roy Nichols of Paterson, N.J., sued her husband for divorce based on “cruelty” — because “he sat her on his lap and kissed her too much, kept her from doing the housework.” ...
2. Gloria Pritchett (Modern Family, played by Sofia Vergara)– One look, and you’ll definitely peg her as just one gorgeous package without substance. And you couldn’t be more wrong. She may look like she came right off the cover ofCosmopolitan Magazine, but this hot momma is a strong...