(I haven't updated this page since the late '90s. I'm working on some updates now!)

The Last Word is not just an online zine--it also has a print version. When we were founded in 1993, nobody had even heard of the Internet. Our print edition was distributed in copious quantity in the Cincinnati area and is the most important underground publication in the region.

For years, I have wanted to put the illustrations from The Last Word online as I have been doing with the text. Now, with our computer upgrade, this goal can be fulfilled.

I have only had the time to put a few of my drawings online so far. The first one is from our 3/4/96 ish and shows my 6th-grade gym teacher viewing the only television program that his intellectual capacity enabled him to comprehend.

The next pic, from 3/18/96, is of the library nun in high school lecturing me because she thought I "pasted" the pages of a library book together--when in fact, someone had stuck mucus between the pages.

This next illustration is from 4/1/96 and was part of a "Sesame Street" parody in which Ernie decapitated Bert and placed his head on the mantle in their apartment, as Bert's headless body roamed freely around the neighborhood.

This editorial cartoon is from our 5/27/96 edition. The accompanying article, which blasted Bob Dole's Naziistic proposal to require welfare recipients to be tested for drugs, suggested that fascist politicians who support drug testing should be required to perform the tests themselves by drinking the urine of those being tested.

The drawing below is from our 6/24/96 ish. While on vacation in California, we drove past Ronald Reagan's house and noticed that the curb in front of his home was littered with empty Clorox cartons and Gatorade bottles, leading us to surmise that the former President's excessive consumption of Gatorade caused him to wet his pants and use up an equal quantitiy of Clorox to bleach his underwear.

In our 8/19/96 issue, I reminisced about the time in 8th grade when I got sent to the corner by my science teacher and removed the cap from a gallon jug of Elmer's glue, causing the glue to dry up and become a useless gallon-sized blob. The picture below shows the teacher's possible reaction when he saw his glue ruined.

I trotted out the "toilevision" for our 8/5/97 ish. The illustration showed a toilet with a TV for a tank. On the screen was one of those aggravating "Max Jerome, Private Eye" commercials.

On 9/9/97, I featured an unflattering picture of Cincinnati city councilman Phil Heimlich. He is the closest thing to Rudolph Giuliani we have around here, in terms of his disregard for everyone's basic rights in the name of "law and order".

Yet another right-wing politician--congressional madman Bob Dornan--was depicted unflatteringly in our 9/23/97 ish.

On 10/7/97, we ran a story about congressional Republicans voting themselves a cozy pay raise at the same time they were cutting off assistance to needy families. It included an editorial cartoon showing ol' Newtzi taking food right out of a baby's mouth.

A humor piece on 10/21/97 told the story of how I witnessed a college professor on a TANK bus picking his nose and eating it, pictured below.

Remember the Sing 'n' Snore Scissors? A humor piece on 11/25/97 lampooned William Mullin's obsession with scissors and Jethro Tull with an ad for a hot new Christmas toy known as the Sing 'n' Snore Scissors.

The next cartoon is from 10/9/98, at the height of the right-wing war waged by the Usenet Cabal.

The next accompanied an article on William Mullin on 10/16/98.

On 11/6/98, after Republican hard-liner Jim Bunning was elected to the Senate from Kentucky, the graphic below--featuring Bunning's distorted face on a currency note--appeared.

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