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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!”

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 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″

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

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”

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

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lemon-Adler” – Bonus! This strip was first published during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.I had no idea how long that would last!Some folks asked if we were really making Lum and Abner COVID masks available!Nope! Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Announcer: Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: Singin’ Sam Brown!Other voices:Continue reading ““Lum and Abner” – Rerun #471″

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lemon-Adler” – Chapter 13 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

“NOW WHAT!?” Chapter 19! Click here to subscribe for FREE! 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 Sheriff Slack!Al Bohl as the escaped jewel thief!Tim Hollis as Lum! Here is our audio production: We’ll be back on Sunday, July 24, 2022 with a new LumContinue reading “New “Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #574!”