Bliss by Harry Bliss for May 06, 2021

Believe it or not, the editor wanted to cut out the part about the whale.

I think that’s a fish story.

Antoine: Red light! Mr. Moby was a whale.

Blaine: I bet he was….

(“Men on Books” from In Living Color.

How about “Toby Richard” or “Gobi Richard”?

“Keith”?

“Let’s use ‘Mobius Richard’ instead” says the Editor…

The “Moby Dick” story you weren’t told about!

Editor wants it to be Moby Ed.

IRL Melville partly based his story on an actual albino whale whom whalers often spotted in the 19th century off the coast of Mocha Island in Chile; he was nicknamed Mocha Dick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha_Dick .

Moby Richard is second in a trilogy about three regular old ordinary guys. It comes after Moby Thomas and before Moby Harold.

I thought Moby Dick was a venereal disease.

Thank you for using a Post-It and not writing on the manuscript. – Herm

The hyphen made all the difference.

The editor likes suggestions.

The editor was right, he should have signed it Mr. Herman Melville. :)

“PERfect censorship!” – Monty P. Moneybags

‘Anatomy of a -————-’…. what the hell is the opposite of murder?

The fight between NY Rangers Brendan Smith #42 and the beast of Laviolette, Tom Wilson#43, seemed to be staged for Mary’s Apt. 42 role of her unwed father in #43 being tossed around like Jimmy Stewart dice.

MO Bea Francis Bavier….

Nice cursive. Correct for the time period. (Sorry for the youngsters that can’t read cursive anymore.)

It’s a good thing this is in GoComics’ world. CK’s censorbot objects to writing “Dick Tracy.” It would have had a conniption fit with this page.

Love it! Thanks for the chuckle. Great way to start a day.