Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. What says "Happy 420, Two Days Late" like host and guest favorites, Akbar and Jeff? Sally and Sam Szabo find out what it means to be gay in Regan's America with Akbar and Jeff's Guide to Life by Matt Groening (Pantheon, 1989). This strip continued beyond the book's publication date for another TWENTY THREE YEARS so there's lots more of our favorite couple beyond this episode.

Topics include: where the elite meet, American Psycho, Working Girl, learning about color cartoons, fezzes and more.

Sally was minutes away from finding out she had covid while recording AND editing this episode, thank you for bearing with us regarding the sound quality.

Thank you kindly to our Elite Cathies, Starscruch and Drawn & Quarterly for supporting this show at the $20/month level- you can access 50+ additional episodes for $5/month over at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod

You can read many many MANY comics by Sam over at her patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brainbooger

Akbar and Jeff's Guide to Life: https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780679726807

Happy Earth Day!

Listener favorite Sam Szabo (Comics Will Break Your Balls, The Enlightened Transsexual, The Onion) is back to look at the PG-13 porno comics of Poor Helpless Comics! by Ed Subitzky (NYRC, 2023). Topics include, Heather McAdams' Cartoon Girl, going to the movies, National Lampoon, David Letterman, and so very much more.

Sally was minutes away from finding out she had covid while recording AND editing this episode, thank you for bearing with us regarding the sound quality.

Thank you kindly to our Elite Cathies, Starscruch and Drawn & Quarterly for supporting this show at the $20/month level- you can access 50+ additional episodes for $5/month over at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod

You can read many many MANY comics by Sam over at her patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brainbooger

Poor Helpless Comics!: https://www.nyrb.com/products/poor-helpless-comics

Heather McAdams info: https://summerpierre.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/where-art-thou-heather-mcadams/

What's our favorite books from 2024? Sally describes them all in no particular order to beloved listener favorite Joe McCulloch! Part one is here for you to enjoy, for Part Two, we will see you over at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod

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