Barnyard Comics #20, October 1948      The Fighting Yank #19, February 1947    These are by the incredible Jack Bradbury.   https://jbrad.org/   Hi Andy!  

Teagan White. Teagan White, Maybe Foxes And Woodchucks Just Weren't Meant To Be Friends    Richard Scarry had to be edited to bring him in line with modern sensibilities. We must be ever vigilant against rampant sexism! Louis Wain. The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain.  I want to see this.   This smartass artist is channeling Garth Williams.    Garth Williams. G. H. Thompson Wallace Tripp Wallace Tripp Jean Bukac Jannie Ho Jannie Ho Molly Brett Molly Brett Martin the Warrior, Nicholas Kole Nicholas Kole Blinky Bill, Dorothy Wall   Dorothy Wall    Arthur Rackham Ronald Searle Susan Herbert    Tripp Ronald Searle.  And yes, the New Yorker is now for children.    Richard Scarry.  Finally I see something by him I admire.  Is it possible that Golden Books didn't notice the baby pig happily sitting not 4 feet from strips of bacon while there is a ham hanging on the wall?  And she wants to work in a supermar...

On Sunday night, a candidate in the GOP primary for Texas House District 136, which includes a large portion of the suburbs north of Austin, tweeted a curious allegation. That candidate, Michelle Evans—an activist who works with the local chapter of conservative parents’ group Moms for Liberty and who cofounded the anti-vaccine political action committee Texans for Vaccine Choice, back in 2015—tweeted that “Cafeteria tables are being lowered in certain @RoundRockISD middle and high schools to allow ‘furries’ to more easily eat without utensils or their hands (ie, like a dog eats from a bowl).” She was responding to a tweet from right-wing Texas provocateur Michael Quinn Sullivan, who had shared a video of a woman speaking at a December school board meeting in Midland, Michigan, claiming that schools there have added “litter boxes” in the halls to allow students who identify as “furries” to relieve themselves. Sullivan retweeted the video, adding, “This is public educati...

 First published in 1908.  I got my copy 60 years later and I still have it.   Badger, Toad, Ratty, and Mole discuss re-taking Toad Hall. Ratty and Toad. Mole yearning for his old home. Ratty rejoices after finding a boot scraper while him and Mole are lost in the Wild Wood. On a beautiful spring day, Mole meets Ratty and they go for a picnic.  Mole has never been so happy. Delight and wonder. Ratty and Mole seek refuge with Mr. Badger in the Wild Wood.   "Now the very next time this happens, I shall be exceedingly angry"! The stoats and weasels have taken Toad Hall and turn away Badger and Mole. Toad's best friends in the world prevent him from buying and driving his latest motor car. Toad, having deceived Mole, strolls into the Red Lion where he will soon meet his fate.    The profligate Mr. Toad of Toad Hall. Toad is nuts for automobiles and has bought and wrecked many of them. Dressed as a washerwoman, Toad hijacks an auto that kindly gave him...