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What are black and white and read all over? Nun Funnies! Back before Sister Act, before Nunsense, before Sister Mary Elephant and even The Flying Nun, nuns were tickling our funny bones in cartoon form. Here, originally published by the Catholic magazine Extension, are hundreds of examples, one for each day of the year (no…
“More Little Nuns” was actually the first of the collections of Joe Lane nun cartoons, launching a series of books about nuns (and others about men of the cloth) that were popular in the 1950s and 1960s. This volume had preorders of over 50,000 copies when it was released. NOTE: Joe Lane occasionally used caricatures…
As the cartoonist for the Catholic magazine Extension in the 1950s, Joe Lane specialized in chronicling the lighter side of men and women in faith. With this collection, he shows his delightful take on the lives of nuns, as the sisters apply their sacred calling to the day-to-day world. NOTE: Joe Lane occasionally used caricatures…
Remember the nuns from your youth? Some were sweet, some were harsh, all were special in their own way. Here are cartoons about the sweet ones, those who are living the sparse life with joy. These classic 1950s cartoons will bring a smile with their humor and another with the memories they evoke. NOTE: Joe…
Nuns teaching! Nuns on missions! Nuns out shopping! Nuns cooking dinner! This classic cartoon collection features nuns navigating the world in the way that only nuns can! “Attractively drawn and amusing cartoons about the lighter side of life among the Catholic Sisters” — The Book Buyer’s Guide NOTE: Joe Lane occasionally used caricatures of Africans…
The mighty Joe Lane specialized in cartoons taking a joyful look at nuns, as this 1956 collection highlights. NOTE: Joe Lane occasionally used caricatures of Africans and Native Americans which, while common at the time, are understood as inappropriate today. These are included in this edition in order to make it a proper reprint. For…
Men of the cloth are the source for this loving comedy. Cartoonist Joe Lane, best known for his nun cartoons, created the single-panel gags for the Catholic magazine Extension. The Revered Francis C. Lightborn, book columnist for The Living Church, said that the cartoons “will be relished equally by Anglican and Roman clergy – and…
Joe Lane, creator of books of cartoons about nuns (Our Little Nuns, More Little Nuns, and many more) and priests (The Fathers, Priests Are Like People) combines them both in one volume in Heirs of Heaven, a collection of single-panel cartoons originally published by the Catholic magazine Extension. Reviewed by Best Sellers: The Semi-Monthly Book…
With Convent Belles, Margaret Carroll, Jerry McCue, and Al Kilgore launched a series of original cartoon books about the Roman Catholic community around St. John’s Parochial School – the nuns, the priests, the schoolchildren, and more. Look also for Saints Alive!, and Monsignor, or get all three books in one affordable volume by ordering Kilgore’s…
Heavenly Days, Carol Meiling’s contribution to the cartoon nunsplosion of the 1950s, is the rare female-drawn entry into the genre. Meiling brings her own spritely sensibility to showing the humanity of Catholic sisters.
Little Gabriel is the an impish little angel with a devilish sense of humor. These silent cartoon adventures should bring a smile to your face and joy to your heart. Al Kilgore, winner of the National Cartoonists Society’s Silver T-Square and Special Features Awards, is best known for his work on the Bullwinkle comic strip….
In Saints Alive!, Margaret Carroll, Jerry McCue, and Al Kilgore turn their humor to one Catholic community, its school with its delinquent student, its clergy with their joys and their foibles. For more in this little world, see Convent Belles and Monsignor, or get all three books in one in Kilgore’s Catholics. Al Kilgore would…
In Monsignor, Margaret Carroll, Jerry McCue, and Al Kilgore focus in on a little prelate with a big spirit and very human struggles. Set in the same Catholic community as Convent Belles and Saints Alive!, these cartoons may delight your heart.. Al Kilgore would later go on to win the National Cartoonists Society>s Silver T-Square…
Frank Evers is best known for his work on the Op-Ed page of the New York Daily News and other newspapers, which brought him the National Cartoonist Society’s Editorial Cartoon Award in 1979. But decades before, during the “cartoon nunsplosion” of the 1950s, he crafted these dozens of cartoons about the local Roman Catholic priest…
Before his acclaimed work on “Rocky and Bullwinkle,” before he won both the Silver T-Square Award and the Special Features Award from the National Cartoonists Society, Al Kilgore drew a series of cartoon books about the all the characters in the Catholic community around St. John’s Parochial School. The nuns, the priest, the monsignor, the…
Joe Lane was the prime specialist in nun cartoons in the mid twentieth century, depicting the Roman Catholic sisters with the full joy of the Church of the time. This book is one of a series where he shared a light-hearted take on Catholic sisters, fathers, and parishioners
