Girls,
If you want a sweet, sweet verse,
Keep a hanky in your purse.
Never let him see or guess,
You’re a horrid snotty mess!
—Your Doctor
Art from First Kiss #36, 1964.
Art by Charles Nicholas & Jon D’Agostino from First Kiss #20, 1961.
This is one of several one-panel gags that I wrote for Northwest Press’s forthcoming anthology “Anything That Loves.”
The book is being funded by a Kickstarter campaign that’s going on through Monday Apr 29, 2013 12:00am EDT.
Editor Zan Christensen describes it as “a bold new comics anthology that explores and celebrates the complex world beyond the categories of ‘gay’ and ‘straight.’
“This will be, as far as I know, the first major comics anthology focusing on sexuality outside of “gay” and “straight”. (Bisexual! Pansexual! Omnisexual! Why-are-you-so-obsessed-with-labeling-me-sexual!)”
Contributors include Kevin Boze, Ellen Forney, Erika Moen, Randall Kirby, Roberta Gregory, Stasia Kato and many more.
Happy Tax Day!
Original art from First Kiss #21, 1961,
Don’t be petty, Helen. Let me talk to Ted.
Look, just because I slept with him last night doesn’t mean you can’t trust me now.
Well, all right. I guess I can wait for him to finish making love to you. But tell him to hurry!
Someone in my family supposedly predicted that both of my marriages would fail within six months. (For the sake of family harmony, I’ll call her “Grand Aunt Gloompuss.”)
Given my family’s history this seemed like a pretty safe bet.
There are an unusual number of divorces in my family: My parents. Both sets of grandparents and at least one set of great grandparents.
So the odds were stacked against me. However…
My first marriage lasted nearly 10 years and would still be going strong if I hadn’t been widowed.
My second marriage is closing in on 30 years now. And that’s considerably longer than any of Grand Aunt Gloompuss’s three marriages.
I don’t have a reliable credit for the original art, but it’s likely that it was done by the Vince Colletta Studio. Allen Freeman extended the art for me when he colored it. The original appeared in First Kiss #10, 1959.
