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“Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #681

“One Family’s Man” – chapter 16! Listen to Lum and Abner here: Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Credits:Click the linked names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver: Announcer!Marc Ridgeway: composer/musician!“Singin’” Sam Brown: Dick Huddleston!Donnie Pitchford: Mousey and Abner!Tim Hollis: Lum and Cedric! Our sponsor of the…

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“Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #680

“One Family’s Man” – chapter 15! Listen to Lum and Abner here: Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Credits:Click the linked names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver: Announcer!Marc Ridgeway: composer/musician!“Singin’” Sam Brown: Dick Huddleston!Don Outlaw: Clyde MartinTim Hollis: Lum!Donnie Pitchford: Mousey and Abner!Tim Hollis:…

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“Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #679

“One Family’s Man” – chapter 14! Listen to Lum and Abner here: Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Credits:Click the linked names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver: Announcer and Travelin’ Joe!Marc Ridgeway: Composer/Musician!“Singin’” Sam Brown: Dick Huddleston!Tim Hollis: Lum!Donnie Pitchford: Abner! Our sponsor of the week:Lum…

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“Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #678

“One Family’s Man” – chapter 13! Listen to Lum and Abner here: More photos and info on Miss Fuller below!Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Credits:Click the linked names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver: Announcer!Marc Ridgeway: Composer/Musician!“Singin’” Sam Brown: Dick Huddleston!The National Lum and Abner Society:…

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“Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #677

“One Family’s Man” – chapter 12! Listen to Lum and Abner here: Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Credits:Click the linked names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver: Announcer!Marc Ridgeway: composer/musician!“Singin’” Sam Brown: Dick Huddleston!Donnie Pitchford: Mousey and Abner!Tim Hollis: Lum!Hendle Rumbaut: Fulla Brushman!Rev.…

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“Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #676

“One Family’s Man” – chapter 11! Listen to Lum and Abner here: Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Credits:Click the linked names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver: Announcer!Marc Ridgeway: composer/musician!“Singin’” Sam Brown: Dick Huddleston!Tim Hollis: Lum!Donnie Pitchford: Abner and Mousey! Our sponsor of the week isRetro…

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The NLAS: 10 -er- 9 Years Ago!

Special Guests: John Rose and Mike Curtis! We continue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the National Lum and Abner Society with a look back. Only this time, there was no NLAS activity a decade ago, so we’ll look at 2015! The NLAS held its final (hopefully not forever!) event in Mena/Pine Ridge, Arkansas with special guests!The new Lum and Abner comic strips will return next week!!“Off to the…

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The NLAS: 20 Years Ago!

We continue to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The National Lum and Abner Society by looking back 20 years to the August 2004 issue of The Jot ‘Em Down Journal! If you thought the first issue (1984) looked a “bit” crude, with this 2004 issue we’d reached state-of-the-art publishing techniques!Check out the articles and the audio reading below! FREE! Lum and Abner fans: The Jot ‘Em Down Journal…

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30 Years Ago!

The Lum and Abner comic strip will return in August! Will it be in one week or two? It depends on when I am able to complete the sculpture commission before me. My apologies for this interruption of “One Family’s Man”! For now, we continue celebrating the anniversary of “The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” The National Lum and Abner Society with a look back 30 years to the August 1994 issue of The Jot ‘Em…

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40 Years Ago:

And now… let’s see what’s going on down in Pine Ridge. Well… The first issue includes 2020 annotations to explain various differences, since this one was reproduced on a photocopy machine! You’ll notice how crude our early issues were in comparison with later releases! Please remember, this was years before digital technology and desktop publishing became available to us! You will see more than…

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More NLAS 40th Anniversary!

New Lum and Abner comics will return in a few weeks! For now, we continue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the National Lum and Abner Society!Here from 2021 is a strip featuring the many celebrity guests who appeared at the 1985-2003, 2005, and 2015 NLAS Conventions!Our audio cast this week:Announcer, Travelin’ Joe: Dr. Joe OliverMusic: Marc RidgewayDick Huddleston: Sam Brown Previous…

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40 Years Ago - the NLAS!

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Who-WHO?” – Chapter 12 – The National Lum and Abner Society!Friends, as explained last week, I need to “pause” the Lum and Abner comic strip for a few weeks due to the day-and-night work I must put in for the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. This year I have five faces to sculpt (three more than last year). There just are not enough hours in the day.Meanwhile,…

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10 Years Ago Today: Lum and Abner Met Dick Tracy!

Yes, it really happened!See the story below the comic strips!The week before, this strip prepared the readers:Click to listen: One week later:Click to listen Be sure to read the historic “Dick Tracy” comic strip of Sunday, July 20, 2014 featuring Lum and Abner!Click here for that strip! How did all this happen?Here is the story!Early in 2014, I was contacted by Mike Curtis, the writer of Dick…

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“Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #675

“One Family’s Man” – chapter 10! Listen to Lum and Abner here: We’ll be back on July 28, 2024! Due to a sculpting job with a quickly approaching deadline, I’m going to have to go to an every-other-week Lum and Abner schedule until sometime in August. There just are not enough hours in the day! Below you’ll see my studio as it’s set up now, with comics production on my older table and sculpting…

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“Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #674

“One Family’s Man” – chapter 9! Listen to Lum and Abner here: Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Credits:Click the linked names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver: Announcer!Marc Ridgeway: composer/musician!“Singin’” Sam Brown: Dick Huddleston!Tim Hollis: Lum!Donnie Pitchford: Abner! Our sponsor of the week isTroy Pierce!Thank…

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Happy 4th of July 2024!

Lum and Abner #370 Click here to subscribe for FREE! Writer: Dr. Joe Oliver!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Announcer and Travelin’ Joe: Dr. Joe Oliver!Music: Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: “Singin’” Sam Brown!Lum, Abner & Grandpap: Donnie Pitchford!Click below to listen! BONUS: Pine Ridge 4th of July Radio Marathon! In 2020, Dr. Joe Oliver, “Singin’ Sam Brown, and I were invited…

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“Lum and Abner” Comic Strip #673

“One Family’s Man” – chapter 8! Listen to Lum and Abner here: Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Credits:Click the linked names to learn more!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver: Announcer!Marc Ridgeway: composer/musician!“Singin’” Sam Brown: Dick Huddleston!Donnie Pitchford: Abner!Tim Hollis: Lum!Hendle Rumbaut: Fulla Brushman! Our sponsor of…