Art Editor Gifts

An art director eats: 'Waiter! Does this lettuce say 'salad' to you?'

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Copycats

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

Squeezing the Free Press.

"No, I didn't steal your content. I just have your content's doppleganger."

It soon became apparent that the vicar was an undercover journalist.

Campaign for Plain English

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

First Novels.

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Reading my Critics

"Well, how do things look from where you sit?"

A Copy Editor and His Dog

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

Punctuation Police

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

"Bad dog! I've told you to always proofread."

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!

Someone who knows apostrophes

'As our new company logo, I'm not quite sure it's sending out the right message.'

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

"The economy always seems to be recovering, but it never recovers."

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Press Freedom

'Roget it's fantastic, superb, extraordinary...where on earth did you get the idea?'