1999 Mack S. Rowe   

Mack Rowe IS a professional graphic designer, who creates cartoons devoted entirely to visual and verbal puns. His imaginative wordplay comics are intended to tickle the reader's funny bone and titillate his or her intellect. He plays with four characters to create funny setups and deliver the puns. PUN and TOON, along with their female accomplice, Eunice, vaguely resemble nebbishes. Grinny the incorrigible cousin of the Sixties Smile Face, is like an after-dinner mint-- with cayenne!Fellow punster and wordsmith par excellence, Neil Shawen, collaborates with Mack in the creative process. Mack's wife, Annie, also provides funny thoughts and the editorial design. Rowe, resides in a completely round house he designed and built near Madison, VA. "I enjoy making people laugh, or groan, as they suddenly realize the surprise of a pun. The author of PunToons, a hilarious book of puns with toons to match.  Here's a "read 'em aloud" example of one of Mack's tunes. (Without the pictures).

Pun, Toon, Eunice, and Grinny,  are talking. The time is January 1 2000! Let's listen.

Pun looking at a computer: "It's sitting there like a bump analog.

Toon: "It's been rendered input-ent"

Eunice: "Digitalis the truth?"

Toon: "Have viagra lied to you?"

Pun: "This is un-nerd of."

A little bird sitting by the computer: "Hi, I'm the tern of the century."

Eunice: "Look for Windows of opportunity."

Pun: "Lotus begin."

And Grinny finishes with; "Life's a glitch."

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