The great Mort Walker did a strip especially for the latest Arf (see a preview by clicking on the cover to the left) about when pop artist Roy Lichtenstein spoke at the National Cartoonist Society in the 1960s.

Something else Mort has been up to is that he’s started his own free ad newspaper distributed in Connecticut and other locations called "Mort Walker’s The Best of Times". An ish I recently got a hold of has this ad of great interest to Arf Lovers.

So, we learn from this ad that the new incarnation of Mort’s Museum is gonna be called the "National Cartoon Museum" ( it was called the International Museum of Cartoon Art in it’s Florida location) I dig the spiffy new, simple logo. And I’m diggin’, too, the cartoon collage in this ad. Send Mort some dough to help jump start this museum to be located in the Empire State Building (after you’ve ordered the latest Arf, that is–shockingly there are still some of you that haven’t got a copy and you don’t wanna miss Mort’s Lichtenstein’s cool story.

Wonder Woman passed out on the couch attended to by a nurse. What’s the dealie-bob? I dunno, but it sure is Wacky.

I never hear the words “back to school” without thinking of the old super thick perfect-bound Dell Giant comic books of the 1950s of the same name. What a concept for comics, competing with the attention of school teachers and textbooks! I bought the Huey Dewey and Louie comic with the white cover at Gray Drugs in Akron, Ohio. The 25 cents charged for the many-storied book as opposed to the usual thin dime for a thin comic with a couple of tales was well worth it. I poured over the comic in the first days of September when I was supposed to be cracking my new school books and doing homework. I never did catch up with the academics and have no regrets.

One of the nicest things about working on the Arf books has been the pleasure of working with Eric Reynolds, publicity pimp for Fantagraphics. Eric is one of the nicest guys in comics. I was happy to open American Way last week on my flight back from Jamaica and discover that Eric got some publicity of his own for his cool art he’s selling on Comic Art Collective.

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