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Sorry We're Open: A Collection of Geech Cartoons

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"Geech" is a well drawn and humorous strip about life in a small, backwood (and possibly southern) town. This book contains strips from the 80's through 1993. Basically it's the artist favorite strips (a "best of" collection he calls it). All the strips are black-and-white (including the Sunday strips) which is standard for this sized book.

For those who don't know, Geech is the main character of the strip. He's a dim-witted man who "works" at the local gas station/auto-repair shop for Merle. While Merle isn't the brightest person on the planet, he does pay Geech to basically do nothing. Merle is good at not fixing your car. Others in the town are Nadine (an overweight food-a-holic), her best friend Ruby (the life-long waitress at the local cafe), Artie Beemer (a family man), Rabbit Fester (the angry owner of the local bar), Homer Pervis (the old barber who can't cut hair), Weldon Ledbedder (the guy always trying to get a decent hair cut), Raymond Flowers (the big bartender with a good heart), and Rev. J. C. Meeks (who's always trying to convert Rabbit).

Jerry Bittle's observations about life, presented through his odd cast of cartoon characters, are interesting and very funny. This is definitely a classic collection of the funniest Geech cartoons.