#literary Archives - "Tuttle's" by Sam

Say That Aloud

I can’t remember where I ran across this title. Maybe in a work about Tolkien?

Critical Spirit

This one comes from personal experience. Getting rid of a critical spirit is very hard work! Where do you think these cartoons come from?

An Impossible Shot

It’s alarming how many people wrote to me who didn’t get this because they didn’t know that a vicarage was not part of the body.

Wisdom from Tolkien

I have been waiting to use this, but no one ever asks me what I did with my day.

Is Not Would Not Could Not

The usual way of saying the third panel where I could from would be “ain’t it, tho?”

Wise Guy, Huh?

I have always loved a good quote, and many of them I have actually found by reading the context, though I admit that both of these were found in Bartlett’s.

Pigeon English

Beyond the joke, that’s one of my all-time favorite CS Lewis quotes. And to think I almost used one from GK Chesterton.

Please Pronounce the Words in the First Panel

For those that are in the know, the Kalavala was one of the old stories that heavily influenced Tolkien.

Chesterton, Buddy, ChesterTON!

I remembered this strip and it’s hard for me to believe that’s it’s already been 4 years since I did it. Seems like it was just months ago. But then, I also remember that I was so struck by that quote that I used it in my novel Ashes to Ashes (see it at http://garisonfitch.com/book/ashes-to-ashes-the-last-valley-book-1)