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02-29-2008, 04:25 AM
The answer has been (probably) supplied by jeff prucher (if that's a name and not a login), last comment on the previous entry: "Git For Home Bruno" originated in "The Old Home Town," a comic running in several papers including the Decatur Review, but unmentioned in Toonopedia, my go-to site for such info. Since it began in 1921, it predates Bosko and Bruno (who knew that Bruno was such a common name for a dog? I always thought Fido). Anyway thanks to all, and if somebody can actually find and post a "The Old Home Town" strip. we will have done toon history a great service.
In other news, I have today submitted a draft of 4 Freedoms, my tenth (I think) novel, to William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins (as what is not?). Who knows when it will appear. As Mr Earbrass notes on submitting the draft of his novel to his publishers, Messrs Snuffle and Dustcough, "TUH [The Unstrung Harp, his latest] is over, so to speak, but far from done with." (Gorey's very early work, The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel, is, as far as I'm concerned, the very best and most exact description of the process of writing and publishing a work of fiction ever written -- though I have not read them all, and competing suggestions are welcome.)
I've read bits of 4 Freedoms at various venues, including Readercon and the Brattleboro Literary Festival, wherehttp://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://parttimedriver.livejournal.com/profile)parttimedriver (http://parttimedriver.livejournal.com/) and others present thought it was pretty funny, though at the University of Vermont a crowd of young students maintained a rather stony silence -- I now know that comedy's hard -- during a reading of the same piece that had 'em in stitches in Brattleboro. The English professor who'd invited me thought that the students may have considered it inappropriate to laugh at the sexual exploits of a disabled man. Is this a bad sign?
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In other news, I have today submitted a draft of 4 Freedoms, my tenth (I think) novel, to William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins (as what is not?). Who knows when it will appear. As Mr Earbrass notes on submitting the draft of his novel to his publishers, Messrs Snuffle and Dustcough, "TUH [The Unstrung Harp, his latest] is over, so to speak, but far from done with." (Gorey's very early work, The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel, is, as far as I'm concerned, the very best and most exact description of the process of writing and publishing a work of fiction ever written -- though I have not read them all, and competing suggestions are welcome.)
I've read bits of 4 Freedoms at various venues, including Readercon and the Brattleboro Literary Festival, wherehttp://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://parttimedriver.livejournal.com/profile)parttimedriver (http://parttimedriver.livejournal.com/) and others present thought it was pretty funny, though at the University of Vermont a crowd of young students maintained a rather stony silence -- I now know that comedy's hard -- during a reading of the same piece that had 'em in stitches in Brattleboro. The English professor who'd invited me thought that the students may have considered it inappropriate to laugh at the sexual exploits of a disabled man. Is this a bad sign?
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