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Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum and Abner in Color!” – Chapter 7 Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Our 2021 announcer is Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: “Singin’” Sam Brown!Abner: 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 #74, October 1996, is available again to read (PDF) and/or hear (MP3)! Cover photo: Mena Lum and Abner postcards from 1950 and 1948.“The Old Hotel” (Queen Wilhelmina Inn), a poem from 1933.“The Golden Era” comic strip by Gary Stivers.“Mena, Arkansas, 1896-1996” by Tim Hollis. “AContinue reading ““The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” #74”

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum and Abner in Color!” – Chapter 6 Cartoonist & voices: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Our 2021 announcer is Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: “Singin’” Sam Brown! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page Welcome to our new readers/listeners/subscribers! Thank you for joining us! Our sponsor ofContinue reading ““Lum and Abner” – Rerun #298!”

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum and Abner in Color!” – Chapter 5 Cartoonist & voices: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Our 2021 announcer is Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: “Singin’” Sam Brown! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page

“Brother Franklyn” Chapter 14! Click here to subscribe for FREE! Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver as announcer & Brother Franklyn! Marc Ridgeway, composer/musician! “Singin’” Sam Brown as Dick Huddleston!Tim Hollis as “Bulldog Lummond”!Michael Ambrose as Luke Spears! Here is our audio production: Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page!

Today is Christmas Day! We are concluding our Christmas comic strip reruns for 2021 with our tenth Christmas Lum and Abner strip which appeared last year. We returned to the imaginary Lum and Abner Christmas 1988 Wish Book for more selections of make-believe Christmas gifts! These were originally published in The National Lum and AbnerContinue reading “Merry Christmas! – “Lum and Abner” Comic Strip Rerun #493!”

Our ninth Christmas comic strip in the Lum and Abner series was published in 2019. “Travelin’ Joe” visits Pine Ridge again, this time stopping in at Dick Huddleston’s store to show him an image of Lum and Abner. They describe the strip below and get a good chuckle out of it!Composer-musician Marc Ridgeway contributed aContinue reading “Merry Christmas! – “Lum and Abner” Comic Strip Rerun #441!”

Here, from 2018, is our eighth Christmas comic strip in the Lum and Abner series! We returned to the imaginary Lum and Abner Christmas 1988 Wish Book for more selections of make-believe Christmas gifts! These were originally published in The National Lum and Abner Society’s The Jot ‘Em Down Journal.The character “Travelin’ Joe” visits PineContinue reading “Merry Christmas! – “Lum and Abner” Comic Strip Rerun #395!”

Our seventh Christmas comic strip in the Lum and Abner series was originally published in 2017! This year I experimented with digital rendering. I’d considered doing an acrylic painting but simply ran out of time. The scripture from The Gospel of Luke is something I first heard in Charles Schulz’s classic television special A CharlieContinue reading “Merry Christmas! – “Lum and Abner” Comic Strip Rerun #343!”

FREE! Lum and Abner fans: The Jot ‘Em Down Journal #73, August 1996, is available again to read (PDF) and/or hear (MP3)! We begin Volume 13 of The Jot ‘Em Down Journal! Cover photo: 1996 NLAS Convention cast including Forrest Owen, Linda Lou Crosby and Cathy Lee Crosby.“The Golden Era” comic strip by Gary Stivers.“LifeContinue reading ““The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” #73”