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FREE! Lum and Abner fans: The Jot ‘Em Down Journal #103, August 2001, is available again to read (PDF) and/or hear (MP3)! Cover photo: National Lum and Abner Society Convention guests Dick Beals, Robie Lester, Rhoda Williams, Sam Edwards.“Lum and Abner in the News” their 60th anniversary with Alka-Seltzer, by Tim Hollis.“The 2001 National LumContinue reading ““The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” #103”

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum’s Loves” – Chapter 6 Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Announcer: Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: Singin’ Sam Brown!Clyde Martin: Bill Rodebaugh!Flossie Flamingo: Hendle Rumbaut!Other voices: Donnie Pitchford! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum’s Loves” – Chapter 5 Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Announcer: Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston and Frank Foster: Singin’ Sam Brown!Other voices: Donnie Pitchford! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page

Thank you! First, thank you, everyone, for your patience and understanding involving the biweekly schedule for the new Lum and Abner comic strips.My work for the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame will be finished in August.The plaques I am sculpting contain five faces which is why it is taking all of my available workContinue reading “Updates from the cartoonist!”

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum’s Loves” – Chapter 4 Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Announcer: Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: Singin’ Sam Brown!Other voices: Donnie Pitchford! Click to listen! What a weird situation in the first balloon of the middle panel of tier three of the comic strip where Lum says “Yeah, I reckon so!” WhyContinue reading ““Lum and Abner” – Rerun #475″

FREE! Lum and Abner fans: The Jot ‘Em Down Journal #26, October 1988, is available again to read (PDF) and/or hear (MP3)! Cover: Movie still from So This is Washington (1943).“Nancy Chambers: 189?-1988” by Kathy Stucker.“Lum and Abner in ‘Let’s ‘Lect Lum’” by Tim Hollis.“Golden Era Discussion Club” by Gary Stivers.“Lum and Abner in theContinue reading ““The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” #26”

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum’s Loves” – Chapter 3 Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Announcer: Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: Singin’ Sam Brown!Flossie Flamingo: Hendle Rumbaut!Other voices: Donnie Pitchford! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum’s Loves” – Chapter 2 Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Announcer: Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: Singin’ Sam Brown!Flossie Flamingo: Hendle Rumbaut!Other voices: Donnie Pitchford! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum’s Loves” – Chapter 1 Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Announcer: Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: Singin’ Sam Brown!Other voices: Donnie Pitchford! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page

FREE! Lum and Abner fans: The Jot ‘Em Down Journal #102, June 2001, is available again to read (PDF) and/or hear (MP3)! Front cover: Lum and Abner still from Partners in Time (1946).Back cover: One of Lum and Abner‘s earliest network publicity photos, 1931.“In Memory of Fred Lasswell, 1916-2001““70 Years of Lum and Abner” SummerContinue reading ““The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” #102”