Today in Comic Book History, May 24, 1978: People ask me why I live in New York City...

...because where else but New York City could you get famous local talk show host Joe Franklin's autograph...on a paintbrush?


from High Times Magazine #70 (Trans-High Corporation, June 1981); script by Josh Alan Friedman; pencils, inks, and letters by Drew Friedman
Or, in the words lyrics of America's troubadors, Sam and Max:



from "Monkeys Violating the Heavenly Temple" in Sam & Max, Freelance Police Special Edition #1 one-shot (Fishwrap, 1987); script, pencils, and inks by Steve Purcell, letters by L. Lois BuhalisX
Or, expressed as a four-lettered word: I♥NY.

A Month of... Board Games! Day 17: I'll turn this car around if you kids don't play this game back there

Yes, it's Sam & Max, America's Favorite Dog 'n' Rabbit Private Investigators (take that, Sam Spayed and Auguste Lapin!) and they're traveling this great land of ours in a big gas-guzzlin' automobile, running down shady-lookin' hitchhikers and stopping in at Stuckey's for that delicious Pecan Log Roll. It's the American Way! And so is their board game!

Left: Sam & Max Freelance Police Special #1 (Comico, January 1989); script, pencils, and inks by Steve Purcell; colors by Rick Taylor; letters by L. Lois Buhalis;
(Click picture to another-roadside-attraction-size)

Paper Doll Month, Day 20: Based on the novella Sam & Max Get Chopped Up By Blunt Scissors

"Sam & Max's Disguise*O*Rama" from Sam & Max Freelance Police one-shot (Marvel (!), 1992); script, pencils, and inks by Steve Purcell; letters by L. Lois Buhalis
(Click picture to Auntie Alice-size)