Editorial Writer Pillows

"Republican striptease"

NBS NEWS, 'Take this editoria, Miss Whimby, and disguise it as a news story.'

"As you can see from the books behind me, I pretend to read a lot of books."

By the time you read this, the cartoon will be out of date. . . so draw your own conclusions.

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

Copycats

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

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

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

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

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

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

First Novels.

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

Reading my Critics

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

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

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Punctuation Police

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

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

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

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

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

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tick, tock-tock, tickety-tick tock ….

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

'The Questioner'