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Special Guests: John Rose and Mike Curtis! We continue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the National Lum and Abner Society with a look back. Only this time, there was no NLAS activity a decade ago, so we’ll look at 2015! The NLAS held its final (hopefully not forever!) event in Mena/Pine Ridge, Arkansas with specialContinue reading “The NLAS: 10 -er- 9 Years Ago!”

We continue to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The National Lum and Abner Society by looking back 20 years to the August 2004 issue of The Jot ‘Em Down Journal! If you thought the first issue (1984) looked a “bit” crude, with this 2004 issue we’d reached state-of-the-art publishing techniques!Check out the articles and theContinue reading “The NLAS: 20 Years Ago!”

The Lum and Abner comic strip will return in August! Will it be in one week or two? It depends on when I am able to complete the sculpture commission before me. My apologies for this interruption of “One Family’s Man”! For now, we continue celebrating the anniversary of “The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” The NationalContinue reading “30 Years Ago!”

And now… let’s see what’s going on down in Pine Ridge. Well… The first issue includes 2020 annotations to explain various differences, since this one was reproduced on a photocopy machine! You’ll notice how crude our early issues were in comparison with later releases! Please remember, this was years before digital technology and desktop publishingContinue reading “40 Years Ago:”

New Lum and Abner comics will return in a few weeks! For now, we continue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the National Lum and Abner Society!Here from 2021 is a strip featuring the many celebrity guests who appeared at the 1985-2003, 2005, and 2015 NLAS Conventions! Our audio cast this week:Announcer, Travelin’ Joe: Dr. Joe OliverMusic: MarcContinue reading “More NLAS 40th Anniversary!”

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Who-WHO?” – Chapter 12 – The National Lum and Abner Society!Friends, as explained last week, I need to “pause” the Lum and Abner comic strip for a few weeks due to the day-and-night work I must put in for the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. This year IContinue reading “40 Years Ago – the NLAS!”

Yes, it really happened!See the story below the comic strips!The week before, this strip prepared the readers:Click to listen: One week later:Click to listen Be sure to read the historic “Dick Tracy” comic strip of Sunday, July 20, 2014 featuring Lum and Abner!Click here for that strip! How did all this happen?Here is the story!EarlyContinue reading “10 Years Ago Today: Lum and Abner Met Dick Tracy!”