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Chappy Chipmunk

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

Anthro For Kids

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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...

Ha Ha Ha, We Got All Kinds Here!

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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...

Internal Compulsion Engine

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  Cape Town, May 6 2003. -  Emmanuel Gumbi, 31, who sliced his head off in a butchery at the Richard's Bay Shoprite Checkers branch, did it because he was afraid. He claimed somebody had followed him and was waiting for him outside the shop.  His fear was so great that he chose a gruesome suicide rather than leaving the shop to face the person who had followed him there.  Gumbi apparently spoke to security guards moments before the incident, and told them he was scared to go outside because he was followed and there were people waiting outside for him.  "He apparently said that a gang of men was after him but he was not being coherent so police assumed that he was drunk. They offered to take him home but he said he wanted to go off somewhere else.  Gumbi had earlier tried to get into the butchery section at another supermarket but that butchery staff had chased him away.    Russia, September 4 2018.  A teenage boy beheaded himself wi...