Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 When I was a teenager, I worked at a Pizza Hut. My last manager there told me I was going to go to hell. I was a senior at a Catholic high school. He was very solemn when he…
Editor’s Note: This comic first appeared here September 16, 2010. In all, Kevin published nearly 70 King of Kook strips between Sept. 16, 2010 and Jan. 4, 2012, producing a new one on a weekly basis. To honor his extensive contributions, we will re-run some of our favorite Kooks over the next 10 Wednesdays.
Kevin has since turned his attention to painting flowers, so be sure to check out his flower watercolors over at his website.
Although one could argue that losing this year is all part of Theo Epstein’s big divine plan, 2012 for all we know could just be one more year. If there were any value in Epstein’s theory –that is, if losing was necessary to build good…
Part 1 here Part 2 here My turn came to get on an airliner, a Northwest Orient 747. The commercial crew was gone, replaced by Air Force reservists. We had to lug our brand-new issue over with us, rifles and body armor and Alice packs…
After the initial tremors of the Penn State sexual scandal had rippled away I realized that a little retrospection revealed a somber analysis that is unfortunately not surprising at all. The actions of a perverted coach, while egregious in the extreme, were not the main…
See part 1 here. My sister and I used to spend summers with my grandparents, my mother’s parents, at their teeny-tiny apartment in Nalcrest, Florida. Nalcrest is the retirement village of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the postal union. Nalcrest is shaped like a…
Part three of “Misprision and Feeling Mystical.” Read parts one and two. Can we all just start by agreeing that it would be cool to bring our world closer to a comic book world? Sure, there would be crises that put the world on the…
After I’d left my wife, after I’d been fired, again, I sat alone in my apartment drinking fruit punch-flavored Kool Aid generously laced with gin. I stared out the window. Out there was Bradenton, Florida, and the heat index, and savage, lumbering alligators unafraid of…
Editor’s Note: This little bit first appeared October 3, 2011.
Last night after my bath I could tell I wore my mom out in the whole long day we had. I couldn’t help it I had extra lots of energy and she did not. So I said You waited a long time to have me and you got the very best kid. Because she’s an old lady mom. She lade down on the bed and I thought she was crying. She wasn’t. She was laughing. Now I know what to say if I tire her all out.
Editor’s Note: This little bit first appeared June 20, 2011.
At school we can’t say bad words. When someone says a bad word, other kids say Aw you said a bad word! And then tell the teacher. I get tired of that. I say Hey listen sometimes you just have to say a bad word. It’s no big deal. Get over it. Move on.
Hello, Sports Fans, we’re at the All Star Break and I am here with the National League standings at the half. The Chicago Cubs are a half a game out of first! No, I’m not dreaming or demented. They are in first place for next…
Editor’s Note: This little bit first appeared June 6, 2011.
Sometimes I want things to happen a certain way and they don’t. I get upset and frustrated and can’t get out of it. I want to but I just can’t do it. My mom says take a breath. Calm down. I just can’t get out of my mood. So I like to say “I don’t like your reaction!” My mom says whose? I say yours! She says what? I say never mind boo tee ko. This helps because I crack myself up.