The RICK O'SHAY collector's prints are all limited edition, signed, numbered, full-color prints from the cartoon strip RICK O'SHAY by Stan Lynde. All RICK O'SHAY prints are ready-to-frame 11" X 21". The prints make great gifts because they capture great American moments. The JOHN 11:25 Stan Lynde color print comes in two sizes (5" X 7" and 11" X 14") but are NOT limited editions. A biography for the inspiration of the JOHN 11:25 print is included with each print. RICK O'SHAY prints please add $25 S&H and the JOHN 11:25 prints add $5.00 S&H.

Click on the thumbnail to get the whole comic strip. The prints range in size from 90k to 200k and are large enough so that you can read most of them.

$100 PR-01	"RICK O'SHAY NUMBER ONE" LIMITED EDITION PRINT! Cottonwood Publishing is pleased to offer a new, limited edition art print of the very first newspaper appearance of the classic comic strip RICK O'SHAY! Published in some thirty U.S. newspapers on April 27, 1958, this Sunday page marked the beginning of a nearly twenty-year international run of Stan Lynde's legendary western strip!
Creator Stan Lynde's original of this print was lost along with his other original art in a house fire in 1990. Limited to 2,000 copies, and signed and numbered by the strip's creator, this full-color art print is a must! Available for the first time ever exclusively through Cottonwood Publishing, this colorful print would make an ideal gift for friends and fans. 11" x 21".

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOSS From the day my comic strip Rick O'Shay began, back in April of 1958, I resolved to avoid the Santa Claus/Easter Bunny approach to the two major Christian holidays and try to portray something of their true meaning. The Sunday page for December 23, 1973 is the prime example of that decision. It featured my character Hipshot Percussion, and is without question the single most popular cartoon I've ever done.

$150 PR-02

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ELK HUNT The Sunday pages of Rick O'Shay always featured an annual high-country hunting trip and the pursuit of "meat for the winter." In one of the most popular of these pages, Hipshot secretly backs up young Quyat's shot as the boy claims his first bull elk. Many an older, more experienced hunter has done ~ for a younger one, and it was done for me when I was a kid. Later, of course, when I became an old guy, I did it for a few kids myself.

EASTER "Hard-boiled but soft-centered" describes Hipshot Percussion pretty well. In this Easter Sunday page, the gunslinger rudely rejects an invitation to attend church services with the folks down in the valley and rides instead to the high and shining mountains, where he worships privately and in his own manner. That's one way to do it.

$150 PR-08

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MODERATION Another tradition in Rick O'Shay was Hipshot's annual excruciating hangover. Always published in the comic section of newspapers on the Sunday nearest New Year's Day, this yearly entry always drew letters of sympathy--and, I suspect, empathy--from readers. Over the years, I must have produced more than a dozen or two cartoons on the subject, and while hangovers may not be funny, I believe being human is.

$100 PR-05

BELLE STARR Does your dog run in circles, barking happily and wagging the entire back half of his body when you come home? Does he sometimes jump up on you with mindless love and muddy paws? Does your cat greet you with a throaty meow and trot out to say "welcome back" as it blissfully rubs itself against your legs? Of course it does; of course they do. So does Hipshot's live-in feline companion, Belle Starr. However, as Hipshot patiently explains, "There is some difference between a tree and a horse's leg, Belle Starr."

DENTIST Hasn't everyone had an encounter with a friendly, talkative dentist who fills your oral cavity with cotton, hardware, and fingers and then proceeds to ask you a variety of questions? In this popular Sunday page, Hipshot finds his own answer to that frustrating circumstance--he declares a time-out and answers all preceding questions at once.

$100 PR-03

HIPSHOT and BELLE STARR POSTER And then there's the Hipshot and Belle Starr poster. 'Can't go wrong with this item if you like pictures of gunfighters and cats. Full color, 11" x 15", and signed by Stan!

$75 PR-09

John 11:25 Print Some years ago Stan had a renewal of his Christian faith through his participation in the Cursillo movement. Stan was working on his comic strip LATIGO late one night in his Montana studio when the vision came to him. It came with power, and with unsual clarity, and it took him completely by surprise. He clearly saw a representative of the crucified and risen Christ, superimposed against the background of the universe. Although he had never seen this done artistically before, this vision would not leave him alone. It seemed to him that his unsought vision expressed the Biblical truth that Christ both died a cruel death in atonement for our sins and that He defeated death for us all with His resurrection and ascension.

JOHN 11:25 5" X 7" $20.00 plus $5.00 S&H JOHN 11:25 11" X 14" $35.00 plus $5.00 S&H