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“THAT’S THAT!” Chapter 20 – Conclusion! Click here to subscribe for FREE! Click the blue names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver, announcer! Marc Ridgeway, composer/musician! “Singin’” Sam Brown as Dick Huddleston!Donnie Pitchford as Squire Skimp and Mousey Gray!Tim Hollis as Cedric Weehunt! Here is our audio production: Special thanks to Hendle RumbautContinue reading “New “Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #597!”

FREE! Lum and Abner fans: The Jot ‘Em Down Journal #128, Spring 2006, is available again to read (PDF) and/or hear (MP3)! Cover photo: April 26, 1936 commemorative postmark of Pine Ridge, Arkansas plus photo of Cling Wilhite who appeared at the historic name-change ceremony of Waters to Pine Ridge.“Curt Gowdy: A Tuffy Act toContinue reading ““The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” #128”

“THAT’S THAT!” Chapter 19 Click here to subscribe for FREE! Click the blue names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver, announcer and Brother Franklyn! Marc Ridgeway, composer/musician! “Singin’” Sam Brown as Dick Huddleston!Donnie Pitchford as Squire Skimp and Mousey Gray!Tim Hollis as Lum Edwards and Cedric Weehunt! Here is our audio production: PreviousContinue reading “New “Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #596!”

FREE! Lum and Abner fans: The Jot ‘Em Down Journal #127, Winter 2006, is available again to read (PDF) and/or hear (MP3)! Cover photo: Chet “Lum” Lauck and Norris “Abner” Goff celebrate the arrival of 1946.“70 Years of Lum and Abner” by Tim Hollis.“Lum and Abner’s Dead Sea Scrolls” Part 3 by Randal Hall.“Lum andContinue reading ““The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” #127”

“THAT’S THAT!” Chapter 18 Click here to subscribe for FREE! Click the blue names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver, announcer and Brother Franklyn! Marc Ridgeway, composer/musician! “Singin’” Sam Brown as Dick Huddleston!Donnie Pitchford as Squire Skimp and Mousey Gray!Tim Hollis as Lum Edwards and Cedric Weehunt! Here is our audio production: ClickContinue reading “New “Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #595!”

FREE! Lum and Abner fans: The Jot ‘Em Down Journal #126, Fall 2005, is available again to read (PDF) and/or hear (MP3)! Cover photo: Frances Langford with Lum and Abner in the 1940 film Dreaming Out Loud.“Remembering Frances Langford (1913-2005)“ by Tim Hollis.“70 Years of Lum and Abner” by Tim Hollis. “Lum and Abner’s DeadContinue reading ““The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” #126”

Merry Christmas 2022! Click here to subscribe for FREE! Click the blue names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver, announcer! Marc Ridgeway, composer/musician! “Singin’” Sam Brown as Dick Huddleston! Here is our audio production: Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page CLICK HERE to read more Lum and Abner Christmas comicsContinue reading “New “Lum and Abner” Christmas Comic Strip #594!”

For some reason, the link to Part 2 was not live in the subscription version.Apologies! Our sixth Christmas comic strip! The illustrations this time were produced in 1988 for a fun, imaginary book called Lum and Abner’s Christmas 1988 Wish Book! If you’ve never heard of “The Wish Book,” ask a grandparent or other personContinue reading “Lum and Abner Christmas Part 2!”

Merry Christmas! Here is a collection of all our Christmas comic strips! This first Christmas strip was originally published in 2011 and is based on the classic script first performed by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff in 1933. The painting is called “Foller th’ East Star” and is adapted from an intaglio print I didContinue reading “Lum and Abner Christmas Part 1!”

FREE! Lum and Abner fans: The Jot ‘Em Down Journal #125, Summer 2005, is available again to read (PDF) and/or hear (MP3)! Cover photo: Kay Linaker (Kate Phillips) and the NLAS Ossifers at the 20th NLAS Convention in Mena, Arkansas, 2005.“70 Years of Lum and Abner” by Tim Hollis.“Lum and Abner’s Dead Sea Scrolls” PartContinue reading ““The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” #125”