(Above, Hokinson’s 1943 cover illustration for Emily Kimbrough’s We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood) Today’s Ink Spill was inspired by a Stevereads blog post, My Best Girls! from July 15, 2011. As the post’s author, Mr. Donoghue, points out, all of Hokinson’s collections are “well worth finding.” Here then is a checklist of all her collections: So
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Robert Mankoff and the Benign Violation Theory
From the blog, Westword, July 15, 2011: “Peter McGraw, Humor Research Lab director, takes his comedy theory to the International Humor Conference” (Robert Mankoff content) …and in case you missed it on The New Yorker’s website, here’s Mr. Mankoff’s recent blog post, “Benign Violations and Distant Mishaps”
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From The Star-Ledger, July 14, 2011, “Home of Addams Family creator could be yours, Lurch not included”
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On this Summertime slow cartoon news day I thought I’d post photos of treasures found on a recent expedition northeast of my home. Jeremy, a main character from The Beatles’ film Yellow Submarine, was in a church basement thrift shop. When I held Jeremy up into the air and asked the woman manning the register, “How much?” she replied,
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