Newspaper Editor Pillows

"I'll have my article pulled together in no time."

'Tiling a Bathroom for a Crossword Puzzle Editor.'

Puzzle editor with a maze to his desk.

All the News That's Printed to Fit

Hoaxer James Bennett (NY Herald Editor) as 'The Funny Little Boy in Trouble'

'And this is my dad. He's the wine critic for The Herald and he can drink your dads under the table.'

"How come people die in alphabetical order...?"

Sports headlines: Coach Kills Clock In Final Minutes.

'700,000 killed and millions injured... and now, here's Lenny with the lighter side of the news.'

Freedom of Speech

"Oh, oh - looks like you got a pretty bad review from that poodle who writes for the Globe."

"Looks like another major newspaper chain merger. . ."

"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.

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

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

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

Thru versus Through Traffic

"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."

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

First Novels.

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Reading my Critics

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

A Copy Editor and His Dog

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

Punctuation Police

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

Someone who knows apostrophes