From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Subject: Interested in Stan Lynde's LATIGO or RICK O'SHAY scripts?
Summary: Info on new graphic novels, collectibles, reprints, etc.
Keywords: Lynde LATIGO RICK O'SHAY
Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co.  /a.k.a. The Gizmonics Institute/
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:30:47 GMT

Forgive me if this has already been posted or discussed -- our site only
recently got r.a.c.strips...

If you're interested in Stan Lynde's LATIGO or RICK O'SHAY AND RIMSHOT
strips, you might be interested to hear that collections/new works are
coming out by Lynde from an outfit named Cottonwood Graphics, Inc. (A
company that I suspect is owned and operated by Lynde himself.)  Maybe this
stuff has gotten around the country, but since I've only seen it in one
store in Washington state, and Cottonwood Graphics is based in a small town
in Montana (I think I know all the big ones :-) ), I thought I might provide
a brief overview of what they've got:

 *  A four-volume reprinting all of the LATIGO daily strips, with
    introductions and side notes by Lynde.  Two volumes have so far seen
    print; I have both and am well pleased (the second has some Russ Heath
    artwork, too, for Latigo's "origin" story.)

 *  RICK O'SHAY, HIPSHOT AND ME, which appears to be both an autobiography
    of Lynde, and reprints 10 complete stories from the daily RICK O'SHAY
    strip.  Has an introduction by Charlton Heston, for all you NRA fans.  I
    haven't purchased it yet, but I plan to.

 *  A two-volume, "new", RICK O'SHAY AND HIPSHOT (why do I always want to
    say "Rimshot"?) story, "The Price of Fame"; both appear to be out and
    printed (again, I plan to order these two.)

 *  RICK O'SHAY AND HIPSHOT: A Month of Sundays.  As it says, a collection
    of the best of the strip's Sunday strips.  These usually skipped the
    daily's continuity, and utilized Lynde's best humor/"stop and smell the
    roses" style (which I like.)  I am *definitely* buying this one.

 *  A collection of Lynde's strip GRASS ROOTS (which I've never heard of --
    it says it was self-syndicated, which may be the reason.)

 *  A two-volume new graphic novel, with new characters, named PARDNERS.  I
    bought both volumes; it's Lynde, but with the syrupy-sweetness turned up
    a notch or two higher than needs be.  Harold Gray was about the only guy
    I know who could get away with that, and even he did a better job.

 *  A pageful of Rick O'Shay/Hipshot/Belle Star (a cat)/Latigo merchandising
    stuff, some of it pretty nice if you like that kind of thing.

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I really enjoyed Lynde's LATIGO strip when it first appeared, between 1979
and 1983; a nice mix of old west, new west and Really Good Dialogue which,
while not being very realistic, you miss from the Westerns of old.  Stan
Lynde learned something from Harold Grey, from the best of the continous
story comic strip writers, and from a couple of John Ford's screenwriters
(and Ford himself, who wrote a lot of the dialogue for most of his movies.))

The short and sweet of it: Stan Lynde does *great* western melodrama, with
an eye for the open spaces that Louis L'amour misses out on (at least, the
few of his books I've read.)

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If you're interested in a Stan Lynde catalog/newsletter from Cottonwood
Graphics, you can write them at:

    Cottonwood Graphics, Inc.
    2340 Trumble Creek Rd.
    Kalispell, Mt. 59901-6713

As you might expect, I have no relation to Cottonwood Graphics of any kind,
except that I covet several of their publications (until I buy them later
this year.)

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