Be Who You Are
The Thinker: I think I’m gay! Therefore...I am!
CAPTION: Happy Pride Month Be who you are!
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Many thanks to Ron Evry and Bruce Simon for permission to use art from one of their fine collections of J.R. Williams’ comics: Hoo-Hah! Out Our Way – The Poetry of J. R. Williams
Transcript:
Scene: Two cowboys riding their horses slowly by a pond. In the background two rabbits run in a field.
COWBOY #1 (sings): Home, home on the range! where the west is wild! and the sex is strange! Oh, if I had brains,I’d come home from the range…and sing soprano after a sex change!
COWBOY #2 (thinks): *
RABBIT #1 (thinks): **
CAPTION: *Thank God I’m too deaf to hear any of this!
CAPTION: **Run away! Run away!
Vintage Art: J.R. Williams New Dialogue: John Lustig
Art from Bruce Simon’s & Ron Evry’sbook:
Hoo-Hah! Out Our Way: The Poetry of J.R. Williams
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Artist unknown, but may be Matt Baker. From the story “Second Best Beau” in Hi-School Romance #75, Nov. 1958.
Transcript:
WOMAN (thinking): Is that a man? or A woman? Am I turned on? Or…no! I’m definitely turned on!
1958 Art: Artist unknown, but might be Matt Baker
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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Hot, brilliant humor for cool, smart readers (and room-temperature dummies) courtesy of Tony Isabella.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman talking to her personal mannequin (Molly Mannequin.) In panels on each side of the main panel we see store mannequins.
WOMAN: Oh, my dear Molly Mannequin. Sheltering at home with you has been wonderful. Tonight, let’s read another chapter of Fifty Shades of Off-Color. I hope *giggle* you don’t blush easily.
Molly Mannequin (thinking): Where’s a woodchipper when you need one? I miss my friends at Macy’s.
1962 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer & Dummy Dialogue Coach: Tony Isabella
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Transcript:
SCENE: Man with two hot coffees, offering one to another man.
MAN (with coffees): I like my men like my coffee! Hot…with whipped cream and sprinkles!
1964 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Foreground Color: Allen Freeman
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