Funny New Yorker Death/Ghost Cartoons-Grim Reaper Cave Man, How About Never

Robert Mankoff:

Even though I didn’t think very much of that cartoon when I drew it, I’ve got to admit that it has always been very good to me. And while I often have that line quoted back to me, I take care never to use it myself. However, looping back on the whole mortality theme, I do have it in my back pocket for one occasion:

P.S. If you want to be either inspired or discouraged about getting your own cartoon in The New Yorker, check out the wonderful “60 Minutes” segment that ran last Sunday.

Store Surveillance Footage Shows Ghostly Activity !!

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Posted: Mar 22, 2014 6:26 PM EDTUpdated: Mar 22, 2014 6:08 PM EDT

New Hampshire -

A New Hampshire store owner is starting to believe in the supernatural after she had a ghostly encounter in her store that was all caught on tape!

The surveillance video from the Ellacoya Country Store in Gilford NH shows a glass tray thrown from the table after the employees leave the store.

After the tray crashed, a store employee, Heidi Boyde, runs back into the room to investigate and found the glass shattered all over the floor.

Store owner, Steve Buzzota, told WMUR that a ghostly presence has been in the store before. Some people have even ‘felt their shoulder pulled.'

Buzzota says when he is alone in the store he hears noises as if someone is coming up the stairs.

The store was built in 1890 and was once somone's home.

Read more: http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/25047112/store-surveillance-footage-shows-eerie-footage#ixzz2wuk91gRq

"Posthumous" Poem by Jean Nordhaus

3 / 6 / 2014

Poem of the Day: Posthumous BY JEAN NORDHAUS Would it surprise you to learn that years beyond your longest winter you still get letters from your bank, your old philanthropies, cold flakes drifting through the mail-slot with your name? Though it's been a long time since your face interrupted the light in my door-frame, and the last tremblings of your voice have drained from my telephone wire, from the lists of the likely, your name is not missing. It circles in the shadow-world of the machines, a wind-blown ghost. For generosity will be exalted, and good credit outlasts death. Caribbean cruises, recipes, low-interest loans. For you who asked so much of life, who lived acutely even in duress, the brimming world awaits your signature. Cancer and heart disease are still counting on you for a cure. B'nai Brith numbers you among the blessed. They miss you. They want you back. Source: Poetry (February 1999). JEAN NORDHAUS Biography  More poems by this author

Ghost in the Window ! Funny!

Philadelphia Inquirer, Wednesday, January 29, 2014, LOCAL Section, Page B2:

Photo of the Day:

An art creature in an upper-story window on 18th Street at Sansom Street.

A Pink Ghost! Gasp! Perils of NOT Washing Darks/Lights Separately. Comic, The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn

The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn

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The Returned: Dead Return To Life !! = Work Of Art

'The Returned' on Sundance: Zombie yarn a work of art

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This image released by The Sundance Channel shows Clotilde Hesme, left, and Pierre Perrier in a scene from "The Returned," premiering Oct. 31, at 9 p.m. EST. (AP Photo/The Sundance Channel, Jean Claude Lother)

Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer

POSTED: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 3:01 AM

The camera pushes forward, taking us with it, across a deserted, wooded hilltop toward an inviting country house. We're transported through the door, along the hallway, and stop in front of a display case on the far wall.

It's a framed collection of butterflies. Marked by delicate wings yellow and blue, red and green, they are firmly affixed to the back board with pins.

Almost imperceptibly, one of the creatures stirs. It flaps its wings more deliberately now, and flies out. Crash! It goes through the glass, shattering it as it flies away.

That scene is a perfect distillation of the themes that pervade and haunt The Returned, an extraordinary, sublime mini-series premiering at 9 p.m. Thursday on the Sundance Channel.

Composed of progressive cycles of suspense, mystery, heartrending beauty, and terror, director Fabrice Gobert's eight-part French-language fable is about a small mountain community in France that begins to experience the spontaneous resurrection and return of deceased and buried townsfolk.

The Returned is inspired by Robin Campillo's 2004 feature film of the same name. Yet, while the film tracked a city's collective response to a phenomenon that affected the globe, the series is far more intimate, exploring the reaction of loved ones when confronted with each returnee.

Camille, a teen who died in a bus crash, is greeted with delight by her mother, who has prayed for this day for four years. Is her daughter an angel?

To others, the returned are demons. An elderly man who lost his wife when they were both young tries to kill her when she shows up still radiant in youth.

The Returned ups the ante on the usual run of ghost and zombie yarns by pulling up the genre into that rarefied region usually reserved for great works of art.

It's a deeply moving, unforgettable experience.

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'The Returned'

9 p.m. Thursdays through Dec. 19 on Sundance Channel.

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tirdad@phillynews.com