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![A cartoon rendering of Grant Wood's famous painting, American Gothic, but with Tom Duck (on a rain barrel) whispering, 'THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A HAY FORK, NOT A MANURE FORK, HARRY' to Harry (holding a manure fork, not a hay fork) who whispers back, 'THIS SEEMS MORE APPROPRIATE, TOM' [Editor's note: If you're looking at this website and need to use these captions, you're in big trouble!]](americangothicwduckandpig4.jpg)
A Tom Duck & Harry SAMPLER
UPDATED 1/21/10
Over 120 strips posted so far
NEWEST STRIPS
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM DUCK & HARRY
UPDATED 10/01/08
6 days/100 strips posted so far out of 11 days/166 strips total
DAY 1 - Down the River
DAY 2 - Strange Trip to Pine Island
DAY 3 - Into the Woods
DAY 4 - The Belly of the Beast
DAY 5 - Long Day's Journey into the Sewer
DAY 6 - Pig in the City
Authored but not yet posted:
DAY 7 - The League of Extraordinary Animals -OR- Mutiny on the Leaky
DAY 8 - Return to Old Gozaimasu
DAY 9 - Working the Grid
Day 10 - Drifting
Day 11 - Stand by your Sty
Tom Duck and Harry have/has been stewing for over 40 years - mainly because their cartoonist couldn't draw ducks or pigs - so, at this point what you see is what you get... or not. This website contains selections from March 2004 on, during which time the cartoonist has been drawing the strip while 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. So, check out our eponymous heroes in daily gag format (A TD&H Sampler) or as a continuing strip (The Adventures of TD&H).
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Tom Duck, a native 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 heads west to find a new life. He flies over the Hudson and across New Jersey, where he begins to tire somewhere near the Pennsylvania border. Alighting atop a westbound Greyhound, he dozes off as the bus rolls on into the twilight.
Tom awakens to dawn's early light and disembarks to scroung breakfast and finds 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 the entrance of 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).
Just how did Gozaimasu, Ohio, get that name?
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*Pronounced GOH-ZAH-EE-MAHS
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