“He heard Frieda saying, “You started it when you heard her screaming downstairs and you jumped out of bed. I told you to stay in this room but you didn’t hear me. You hadda go down there to see what was happening to her. And then it’s Prince Valiant riding to the rescue.”

“Make it Moon Mullins. It was more along that line.”"

- From Black Friday by David Goodis.

It never gets old.

Out of order, out of context artwork by the incomparable E.R. Cruz from Jonah Hex #29.

Herriman hammers it out, from Don Marquis’ the lives and times of archy and mehitabel.

Archie tells you how it is in this cover detail from Archie Annual Digest #36.