Kliban by B. Kliban for May 17, 2019

I wonder how many people still get their pornography in book form.

Might have know something like this would happen right in front of Hardw.

Must be a science text book.

A neat detail in ’Handmaid’s Tale.’ Women aren’t allowed to read so there’s no writing on food packages. The stores shown here have printed signs.

“The condensed works of Anthony Wiener.”

The unknown object on the street ……pathetic…..

Anyone else notice the whack-job holding out the ancient torture device for protection??

Note how the crowd have turned their backs on businesses providing the nuts and bolts of beefcake artwork.

We’re so fortunate, as a society, to have among us people who are willing to look at these things to determine that the rest of us can’t…

(yes, /s)

The ubiquitous HARDW store in Kliban cartoons.

The good folks of Texas review of Dave Guterson’s Snow Falling On Cedars.

Texas bans 15,000 books from state prisons, including Dante’s “Inferno” and “The Color Purple”

Art supplies meat hardw….

Kind of dates the strip pretty badly.

There’s a hot movie out about this……

Education is foreign to many….

It’s just a book, for God’s sake!!!!

Hardw is NOT amused!

Robert Silverberg, the science fiction writer said a well-written “erotic novel.” would earn him enough to buy a house as well as support his sf writings. This was in the 1950s.

They’ve got a flamethrower. Is that Guy Montag and his firemen?

Careful that you don’t get any on you!