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Rick O'Shay, Hipshot, and Me: A Memoir by Stan Lynde (Includes 10 Complete Stories from the Daily Comic Strip 1959-1977) Reviews:
Rick O'Shay 
2009-11-21 - This was a gift to my husband. He relived his childhood and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Quite a memory jogger for Rick O'Shay admirers.
2009-04-20 - This paperback brings back several full-length comic strips representing the development and maturation of cowboy sheriff Rick O'Shay and his fellow residents of the whimsical frontier town of Conniption.
A pleasant trip down memory lane for those who remember the comic strip; the book affords a reader the opportunity to see several weeks' worth of a daily 4 panel comic strip at a single reading. An enjoyable, lighthearted memoir from the comic strip's author.
Rick O'Shay, Hipshot, and Me: A Memoir by Stan Lynde (Includes 10 Complete Stories from the Daily Comic Strip 1959-1977)
We miss you, Hipshot and Rick
2009-02-06 - Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Stan Lynde created a truly memorable Western strip and this book brings it to life again. We all miss not having the wit and wisdom of Rick, Hipshot and the rest of the gang. Bless you, Stan Lynde.
Da Kine of
2006-12-26 - "Cartoon" is in some ways not good enough to describe Stan Lynde's work, just as "Cartoon" can seem to denigrate such American literary greats as "Pogo", "Doonesbury" and "Krazy Kat".
In this collection, we see several years of the week-day editions...but none of the Sunday, which is a shame, as the Sunday edition is where Mr. Lynde cut absolutely loose as an artist. His colors and details were/are as brilliant and memorable as any cartoonist I've ever seen, including such as the great Barry Windsor Smith and the various artists along the way for the "Prince Valiant" strip.
Mr. Lynde hit a chord at the right time in American History to tell us about the "good ol' days", and how they weren't necessarily so much better than today, but that we all get back what we put into life.
He continualy did this with humor and light-heartedness, while not shrinking from showing us real-life relationships and how life goes on. Note his gradual telling of Sheriff Rick O'Shay's courting with school marm Gaye Abandon, and their "adopted" (or more like rescued) boy-child, Quoit.
For me, the gunfighter (with the proverbial heart of gold) was Hipshot Percussion. He was shown as being a loner...but one who needed people. He also lived with another "rescue animal", one Belle Star, a tabby cat. Sometimes pregnant, sometimes not, always loyal to Hip and his ways. They were indeed kindred creatures.
One highlight of every year was when Hipshot and Rick, and later with Quoit, would go into the Mountains to hunt elk.
The other highlight was on Christmas Day, when Hip would ride up into the Mountains, by himself, to "have a word with The Boss". The God, of course.
Mr. Lynde would use his finest inks and drawing styles for this big-format strip, painting nature in all of its glory. Even for someone like myself who usually finds public showings of "religion" to be tacky, his love and feeling for the Great Outdoors and God, and the way that he'd show it in such a low-key way, is absolutely majestic.
It's been over 30 years since the last Rick O'Shay hit the stands, due to contractual problems between Lynde and his publisher, but I can still see the sunrises and sunsets the way he painted them. Which is just the way that you can see them yourself, on particularly clear mornings and evenings.
(Please note: the above does NOT tell anyone how I feel about any religion...just that I think it best kept to ones self...)
Mr. Lynde has carried his arts over to later strips and novels, such as Latigo and others, and the little bit I've seen of them is every bit as worthwhile as the "Rick O'Shay" series. Well worth checking out. Do yourself a favor and do that.
His webpage is,
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It's a great beginning ...
2000-04-11 - Now, if Stan Lynde would just collect and publish the rest of the Rick O'Shay archive, those of us nostalgic for the town of Conniption and its residents could complete our collections. Meanwhile, this will have to do. It's a collection of 10 complete stories from the daily comic strip (1959-1977) plus an autobiography of Stan Lynde and an introduction by Charlton Heston.
The stories center around the anachronistic town of Conniption, located somewhere in the Old West. Conniption seems, like Brigadoon, to be adrift in time -- often interacting with the modern world to humorous effect, while retaining its basic rural western character. Its residents are a quirky lot who change and grow over time as Lynde's skills as artist and story teller mature over the years.
If you're old enough to remember the strip in your daily paper, this compilation is the closest you can come to getting it back. If you're a fan of the Old West, or even just like "Tumbleweeds," but haven't yet encountered Stan Lynde's work, you're in for a treat.
