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Tom Duck and Harry ~Ohio Gothic~

Tom Duck and Harry ~Ohio Gothic~Tom Duck and Harry ~Ohio Gothic~Tom Duck and Harry ~Ohio Gothic~

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Click here for my new book, Living Too Far North, Drawing Humor from a Winter in Alaska

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Click here for my new book, Living Too Far North, Drawing Humor from a Winter in Alaska

Click here for my new book, Living Too Far North, Drawing Humor from a Winter in Alaska

Click here for my new book, Living Too Far North, Drawing Humor from a Winter in Alaska

Click here for my new book, Living Too Far North, Drawing Humor from a Winter in Alaska

Site Contents

Pick from write-ups below or from this random crap shoot:

Welcome: Basics, Backstory & Baloney

Welcome: Basics, Backstory & Baloney

Welcome: Basics, Backstory & Baloney

Welcome to TD&H

  • Apologia and Backstory
  • Dpt of Farmland Security
  • "Who's Responsible for This Travesty?!"
  • Policies:  Cookie, Legal, Privacy, Refund... & Less!

New, Seasonal, or Temporary Stuff

Welcome: Basics, Backstory & Baloney

Welcome: Basics, Backstory & Baloney

An out-of-place holder for

  • Newly added items 
  • Seasonal items
  • Temporary items
  • Items left here too long and no longer new, seasonal, or temporary

The Story of Gozaimasu, Ohio

Welcome: Basics, Backstory & Baloney

The Story of Gozaimasu, Ohio

Get the answers to questions like

  • Why Ohio, of all places? 
  • Why southern Ohio, in particular?
  • And where the heck is Gozaimasu, Ohio?...  Wait, I know.  it's a bad pun!

The Early Years

The Two Adventures of Tom Duck & Harry

The Story of Gozaimasu, Ohio

  • The early appearances
  • The founding pun - "Tom Duck and Harry"
  • Tom, a Duck; Harry... uh...
  • The University Daze
  • Early Storyboards

A Tom Duck & Harry Sampler

The Two Adventures of Tom Duck & Harry

The Two Adventures of Tom Duck & Harry

Selected "daily" strips from 2004 to the present

Unfortunately, there are too many others still at large out there.

The Two Adventures of Tom Duck & Harry

The Two Adventures of Tom Duck & Harry

The Two Adventures of Tom Duck & Harry

There's not just one, but two incomplete comic epics, on a local and continental scale:

The First Adventure of TD&H

The Alaskan Adventure of TD&H

Tom Duck & Harry's Alaska Connection & Too Far North

Tom Duck & Harry's Alaska Connection & Too Far North

Tom Duck & Harry's Alaska Connection & Too Far North

My connections with Alaska and samples from Too Far North, a Northern Cartoon Odyssey, my 1987 book of northern cartoons

The Duck Blind - Where Mess-cellany Lurks

Tom Duck & Harry's Alaska Connection & Too Far North

Tom Duck & Harry's Alaska Connection & Too Far North

When is a blog not a blog?  When it's a bunch of random items mired in a swamp.  Hence the name. 

25 Science Cartoons For Photonics Rules of Thumb

Tom Duck & Harry's Alaska Connection & Too Far North

25 Science Cartoons For Photonics Rules of Thumb

My cousin Ed Friedman had a lapse of reason, as evidenced by asking me for cartoons for his respected publication.

My Newest Book: Living Too Far North - pdf

A Return to the Dark Ages of One and One Half Wits Dot Com

25 Science Cartoons For Photonics Rules of Thumb

Commentary on Too Far North, with updated and new cartoons, and on our school-year winter sojourn in rural Alaska

The Marmaduke Files - Setting the Record Straight

A Return to the Dark Ages of One and One Half Wits Dot Com

A Return to the Dark Ages of One and One Half Wits Dot Com

Whether you love or hate Marmaduke, get the facts:  Phil Leeming, not Brad Anderson, was its creator.

A Return to the Dark Ages of One and One Half Wits Dot Com

A Return to the Dark Ages of One and One Half Wits Dot Com

A Return to the Dark Ages of One and One Half Wits Dot Com

The website was created and the certificate was obtained, but the public interest was not served in the interim.

Contact Us!

Contact Us!

Contact Us!

Drop us a line! We don't take calls, because they're usually from telemarketers, scammers, or spammers.

Featured Strip...

Welcome to Tom Duck & Harry

Apologia and Backstory

Tom Duck and Harry has or have been stewing for over 50 years - mainly because their cartoonist couldn't  draw ducks or pigs, so at this point what you see is what you get...  or don't get.  The website tomduckandharry.com began as an addition to Fred Herring's website oneandonehalfwits.com.  (See below for the sad story of that seamy underbelly of the internet.)  This website, tomduckandharry.com, contains selections from March 2004 on, during which time most of the strips were drawn while the cartoonist was commuting to work by bus and subway.  That could explain the inconsistency in the drawings and the shaky line work, but it's really just his inability to draw ducks and pigs.  Either way, check out our eponymous heroes in daily gag format (A TD&H Sampler) or as a continuing strip (The First Adventure of TD&H or The Alaskan Adventure of TD&H).

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Tom Duck, a denizen of New York City's Central Park, has tired of the rat race.  He recalls his great-grandfather's tales of the Great Plains and the vast flocks of migratory waterfowl that blackened the sky and whitened the earth.  So Tom flies west to find a new life, crossing the Hudson and New Jersey, where he begins to tire near the Pennsylvania border.  Alighting atop a westbound Greyhound, he dozes off as the bus rolls on into the twilight.  He awakens to dawn's early light and  disembarks to scrounge breakfast, only to find himself on the outskirts  of the hamlet of Gozaimasu,** Ohio, "population 756 last time we  checked."  A short flight into the hills southwest of town brings him to Cow Manor, a small farm run by African-American farmer Al MacDonald and his wife, Ellie.  There, deep in the bowels of southern Ohio, Tom finds a new home, new adventures, and new friends, in  particular his buddy-to-be, Harry (a pig).

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**Pronounced GOHZ-EYE-EE-MAHS


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Department of Farmland Security

The Department of Farmland Security...  
"Leaves of three, let it be", E Pluribus Quackum, etc.

Want more information on the Department of Farmland Security (DFS)?  Then look no further than our logo, because DFS is not mentioned elsewhere in Tom Duck and Harry.  It is just another stupid play on words, so you won't find anything more than what you can see in the seal.  To wit, or half wit...   

   

  • Yes, that is poison ivy in the duck's right foot, as evidenced by the warning "Leaves of three, let it be."  There are 13 leaves and 13 berries.  

   

  • Those are 13 skyrockets in the left foot. 


  • E Pluribus Quackum might mean "From many, quackum," whatever that means.    


  • The symbols on the shield represent a farm and a furrowed field.

     

  • The 22 stars might or might not mean anything specifically- You could contact the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) Office of Public Affairs and ask about their logo, which bears an uncanny resemblance to ours, except theirs has "U.S." on it, whereas ours better not. 


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Most Frequent FAQ: "Who's Responsible for This Travesty?!"

Not These Guys!

That is, neither Dewey nor Truman can be blamed for this mess of a website, but oddly enough, the election referenced in the picture took place in November 1948, the same year earlier in which our perpetrator was born.  As you can figure out for yourself, that was during the last year of President Franklin Roosevelt's fourth term, albeit being executed by Truman following Roosevelt's death in 1945.  So you might questionably say that our f(l)ounder has lived during the presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt, Thomas Dewey (albeit for a brief three-hour period in Chicago), Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.  We'll leave it up to you to add "but not least" or its opposite to any of the above.  [Suffice it to say that several of these have been nominated to appear on the three-dollar bill, as in "as phony as a...".  Your choices are probably directly related to your political leanings or ideology.  Independents have a larger pool to consider.]  In all that time, has he learned anything?  We'll let you be the judge.


Yeah, it's me, David Mudrick.  For awhile I chose to remain agnonymous (meaning I don't believe in myself), but since I'm the only visitor to this website, there's no sense in being coy.  If you want to know more about me, you might find some parallels between my life story and that of Fred Herring, the f(l)ounder of One and One Half Wits Dot Com, which has been incorporated elsewhere in this website - or you can read my new book, also elsewhere in this website:  Living Too Far North, Drawing Wisdom from a Winter in Alaska.


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Policies et al.: Cookie, Legal, Privacy, Refund and Return

Cookie Policy: We've Tossed Them!

Unless we've been hacked by Girl Scouts, we've tried to avoid cookies to the extent possible, but since this website is built on a templated commercial product, we assume some temporary cookies are used.  We've turned off the switch that allows the template "to place analytics cookies on your visitors' browsers to learn more and track your website's performance."  Hopefully, by continuing to use this site, you demonstrate your lack of judgement only to yourself. 

Legal Statement

A single lawyer in a town will starve to death, but two lawyers will both live comfortably. Also, any resemblance between the contents of this website and reality is purely coincidental.  Nevertheless, all content herein is the property of David Mudrick, if not Fred Herring and Associates.  As Fred was fond of saying, "It may be crap, but it's our crap."


More specifically, as stated at the bottom of this page, "Unless otherwise noted all content Copyright © David Mudrick, 2001-2022 - All Rights (and Wrongs) Reserved; contact us for permission to use any of it."

Privacy Statement

Close your blinds at night before undressing.

Refund and Return Policy

Refund what?  We're not selling anything, and we certainly can't refund the time you've wasted so far on this website, but we can wish you many happy returns, especially the one to your senses. 

Search Phrases

This block of text is here simply to let us insert some search phrases our web builder app said we needed on the home page:  Ohio Gothic, puns, and cartoons.  (These are phrases?}  Apparently "Ohio Gothic" in the main title above doesn't count.  The truth is, no one will ever search for us, and if they do find us, it will be by a fluke.  Wasn't that how you got here? 


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