We Have a Comic Strip

The Daily Brass is proud to welcome Purvis McGrew's seminal comic strip: "The Coop Clucks Clan" to its pages.  As most of you know, the influence of Mr. McGrew's portrait of race relations within the processed chicken industry is inestimable.  We offer him our humble thanks for gracing our little blog with his esteemed words and pictures.  Open the page to read the first in a series.

The Editors 

Review: All About Roachie

All About Roachie

by Darwin Blattam

Esteemed Publishing, 476 pages

Reviewed by Christamar Varicella

It is not clear to what genre belongs the novel, All About Roachie.  If anything it seems to fit with the series of animated insect movies that debuted in the late 1990s and early 2000s.  Movies like Antz, A Bug’s Life, A Bee Movie, A Termite’s Tail, A Fly’s Fable, The Beetles’ Hard Days Night, Death to Tse Tse, and so forth.  And yet, somehow, Pixar and other production companies failed to delve into the world of cockroaches.  Herein lies the establishing premise of All About Roachie.  The protagonist, Darwin, is extremely bitter that his species has been left out of the spotlight.

An Open Letter to John Cougar Mellencamp

Dear John Cougar,

In this day and age, as politicians, pundits, and other politically minded animals cast aspersions on various political, and ethnic groups, blaming anyone and everyone for the decline of our once proud nation (America) I have, after much research, come to the conclusion that you are truly to blame.