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16/22

A Kept Man

  • Ian Sampson, Cartoonist, Printmaker, and Interdisciplinary Educator, West Virginia University

Panel 1/2

A comic titled: Charlie & Rawhide in 'A Kept Man'; panel 1: Two men on horseback are in silhouette at the top of a green hill and the lead rider says 'This is the life Rawhide! Out here with a horse between yer legs you can feel the wild rhythm of nature.'; panel 2: Charlie on his horse is saying 'Yessir, me an Monte, we useta ...' when a loud honk invades their serenity; panel 3: A close-up of Charlie saying 'What the ...' as Rawhide watches from the background; panel 4: At the bottom of the hill, an old-time black automobile honks, rattles, and clangs noisily down a dirt road as Charlie exclaims 'Is ... izzat ...'; panel 5: A close-up of the car from the front shows a woman driving as Charlie says 'Mame! And Jack! And ...'; panel 6: A close-up of Charlie's face saying 'And ... I bin replaced!'; panel 7: A close-up of a teenage boy in the backseat of the car holding a dog on his lap as Charlie says 'By a mutt!'; panel 8: Rawhide and Charlie on horseback as Rawhide says 'It's a cocker spaniel, matterafact.'