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"Is that right? No matter how I go in, I come out on the road to Rome."
"Is that right? No matter how I go in, I come out on the road to Rome."

"Is that right? No matter how I go in, I come out on the road to Rome."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1962
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 10 3/8 × 10 3/16 in. (26.4 × 25.8 cm) Sheet: 10 3/8 × 10 3/16 in. (26.4 × 25.8 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1493
"Here's the one - The Coming Armageddon - I wrote it four years ago - I remember I delivered it on a day that rained and only three people came. Why don't I change the wording a bit substituting 'atomic might' for 'military might' and let it solve my problem for next Sunday? After all, Dr. Blahr does it all the time - suppose I just read it to you - you can go right on sewing..."
"Here's the one - The Coming Armageddon - I wrote it four years ago - I remember I delivered it on a day that rained and only three people came. Why don't I change the wording a bit substituting 'atomic might' for 'military might' and let it solve my problem for next Sunday? After all, Dr. Blahr does it all the time - suppose I just read it to you - you can go right on sewing..."
Alan Dunn
1948
"If I promise not to let it go any further, tell me, how much is one million dollars in real money?"
"If I promise not to let it go any further, tell me, how much is one million dollars in real money?"
Alan Dunn
1969
"I'm all right if I don't look down." "They wouldn't be any better if we went clockwise." "Where's the elevator? I'm all turned round. " "Hi, Alice." "Stop thinking of it as a third of a mile! " "Let's come again and really look at the pictures." "This is going to be had to tear down."
"I'm all right if I don't look down." "They wouldn't be any better if we went clockwise." "Where's the elevator? I'm all turned round. " "Hi, Alice." "Stop thinking of it as a third of a mile! " "Let's come again and really look at the pictures." "This is going to be had to tear down."
Alan Dunn
1959
"You told her, Gus - Don't bore Sylvia and eat your potatoes! Naomi, I ought to warn you there's ice cream - wine, dear, Naomi and George have no wine - I must apologize about the plumbing - I do wish the neighbors wouldn't go to the john while I'm giving a dinner - more limas, dear? - Limas, Sylvia? - Gus, more limas? - Duffy, do go on about Perry and what were his rubbers doing in the ice box -."
"You told her, Gus - Don't bore Sylvia and eat your potatoes! Naomi, I ought to warn you there's ice cream - wine, dear, Naomi and George have no wine - I must apologize about the plumbing - I do wish the neighbors wouldn't go to the john while I'm giving a dinner - more limas, dear? - Limas, Sylvia? - Gus, more limas? - Duffy, do go on about Perry and what were his rubbers doing in the ice box -."
Alan Dunn
1948
"Right out of a clear sky she gave me a latch key. I had quite unwittingly, awakened her love."
"Right out of a clear sky she gave me a latch key. I had quite unwittingly, awakened her love."
Alan Dunn
1933
"Come, come! How does it look to see a lot of men yawning around the place?"
"Come, come! How does it look to see a lot of men yawning around the place?"
Alan Dunn
1933
"Incredible as it may seem to those of us who live in the world of anti-matter, a mirror image exists - the reverso of ourselves - which we can only call the world of matter."
"Incredible as it may seem to those of us who live in the world of anti-matter, a mirror image exists - the reverso of ourselves - which we can only call the world of matter."
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"You are now on the celebrated Via Appia, oldest of the Roman consular roads. Started in 312 B.C. by Appius Claudius the Blind, it had it's beginning at the Porta Capena in the Servian Wall at Rome..."
"You are now on the celebrated Via Appia, oldest of the Roman consular roads. Started in 312 B.C. by Appius Claudius the Blind, it had it's beginning at the Porta Capena in the Servian Wall at Rome..."
Alan Dunn
1944
No caption (all roads lead to Rome)
No caption (all roads lead to Rome)
Alan Dunn
1943
"...and while I am no Buffalo Bill I gess I could hit an enemy if he was well bunched and did not come at me zigg-zagg."
"...and while I am no Buffalo Bill I gess I could hit an enemy if he was well bunched and did not come at me zigg-zagg."
Alan Dunn
1941
“Oh, it doesn’t bother me too much. When I go home at night. I throw it all off.”
“Oh, it doesn’t bother me too much. When I go home at night. I throw it all off.”
Alan Dunn
1961
"What a dreadful twelve days! Not a bus or a subway was running, taxis were impossible, and if I wanted to go anywhere I had to walk!"
"What a dreadful twelve days! Not a bus or a subway was running, taxis were impossible, and if I wanted to go anywhere I had to walk!"
Alan Dunn
c1966