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About Tuck

TUCK!'s award-winning cartoons, illustrations, and comics have appeared in a diverse assortment of avenues: In addition to THT, other outlets have included notorious hockey websites, books, comics, television and the programs sold outside St. Louis Blues NHL homegames (for nearly 10 years). (Honorable mention placements and contributions include the Pulitzer Newspapers, Gannett Newspapers, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, and many impressive near-misses that make for entertaining happy hour conversation.) Follow TUCK! on Twitter: @ TUCKsez


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TUCK! sez: See ya (for now)

October 03, 2011
The last New Toon Day for awhile...thanks everyone for all the support and fun!

TUCK! sez: Official concession

June 09, 2011
New Toon Thursday says, "Gozaimasu!"

TUCK! sez: That’s a relief

June 02, 2011
New Toon Thur$day check$ in with the Dodger$. Ye$, again.

TUCK! sez: Yet another one for the kids in Holbrook

May 26, 2011
New Toon Thursday visits Flushing yet again

TUCK! sez: Taking Marty’s bait

May 23, 2011
New Toon Monday freely admits to adding to the Big-Time Rasslin' tenor of the Reds/Cards "feud"

TUCK! sez: Miracle cure

May 19, 2011
New Toon Thursday with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Burned out

May 16, 2011
New Toon Mondays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: That sinking feeling

May 12, 2011
New Toon Thursdays with TUCK! toon goodness

TUCK! sez: Pay day

May 09, 2011
New Toon Monday with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Red-handed?

May 05, 2011
New Toon Thursday returns with TUCK! brand toon goodness

TUCK! sez: Sawx smash!

May 02, 2011
Finally, it's New Toon Monday again!

TUCK! sez: Not cutting it

April 21, 2011
New Toon Thursdays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Manny bags it

April 18, 2011
Finally, another new New Toon Monday with TUCK! toons

TUCK! sez: Calling all nations

April 14, 2011
New Toon Thursday with TUCK! toon goodness

TUCK! sez: Horror-scope

April 07, 2011
New Toon Thursday with TUCK! toons goodness

TUCK! sez: Happy trails, Jimmy Ballgame

April 04, 2011
New Toon Monday with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Another “gem”?

March 31, 2011
New Toon Thursday with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: From worst to Phirst

March 28, 2011
New Toon Monday with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Another one for Sully

March 21, 2011
New Toon Monday with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: More major March Madness

March 17, 2011
New Toon Thursdays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: (Add your own Ricky Vaughn reference here)

March 14, 2011
New toon Monday goes completely self-reflexive.

TUCK! sez: The latest addition to the menu at the Montville Inn?

March 10, 2011
TUCK! toons, twice weekly, all season long

TUCK! sez: paging Dan Lozano

March 07, 2011
New Toon Monday with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: And, technically still in contention

March 03, 2011
New toon Thursdays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Another one for Uncle Jim

February 24, 2011
New Toon Thursday looks at spring training...or was that spring break?

TUCK! sez: one for Verducci

February 21, 2011
New Toon Monday tips its cap to St. Louis Post-Dispatch scribe Derrick Goold for coining the phrase sweeping the baseball world: Albertageddon.

TUCK! sez: Happy Stan Musial Day!

February 17, 2011
New toon Thursday salutes (and congratulates) Stan the Man on his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

TUCK! sez: Hot pursuit of the deal

February 07, 2011
New Toon Monday offers an oasis from the rest of the internet Super Bowl hype.

TUCK! sez: One for Hensley

February 03, 2011
A "praiseworthy" new Toon Thursday with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Jeter Kong

January 31, 2011
New toon Monday with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Big to-do

January 24, 2011
New toon Monday (with apologies to Jim Borgman)

TUCK! sez: Here come the O’s and the Rays

January 20, 2011
New Toon Thursdays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: hey, wanna buy a #62, cheap?

January 17, 2011
TUCK! toons, right here, every Monday and Thursday

TUCK! sez: 19 years and counting

January 13, 2011
TUCK! brand toons every Thursday and Monday right here at THT.

TUCK! sez: Grumpier Older Men

January 10, 2011
New Toon Mondays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: holy moley

January 06, 2011
The first New Toon Thursday of 2011

TUCK! sez: One for Oney

January 03, 2011
TUCK! toons rings in 2011. Happy New Year everyone!

TUCK! sez: One for Sully

December 30, 2010
Looking ahead, 2011 (Part 2); Happy New Year, everyone!

TUCK! sez: Looking ahead, 2011 (Part 1)

December 27, 2010
TUCK! wishes everyone a happy holiday week

TUCK! sez: Top Shelf

December 23, 2010
Happy holidays from TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: New in town, sailor?

December 20, 2010
New Toon Mondays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Scouting report

December 13, 2010
New Toon Mondays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: legal eagle

December 09, 2010
TUCK! toons twice weekly!

TUCK! sez: Walk in the shadows

December 06, 2010
TUCK! toons goodness twice weekly, Mondays and Thursdays

TUCK! sez: The Ugh in the Uggla move

December 02, 2010
New toons goodness every Thursday and Monday from TUCK!

TUCK! sez: Really, what were they smoking?

November 29, 2010
TUCK! brand toons goodness every Monday and Thursday

TUCK! sez: Fearless Predictions, revisited

November 22, 2010
TUCK! brand toons every Monday and Thursday throughout the offseason. Except this week.

TUCK! sez: Still yet another one for the kids in Holbrook

November 18, 2010
New Toons Thursday with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Cannot wait for Jeter’s episode of “The Decision”

November 15, 2010
New Toon Mondays returns with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: He would have been safe if he’d said “Royals” or “Pirates”

November 04, 2010
TUCK! congratulates the 2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants. (And to a well-played playoffs by the Texas Rangers, too!)

TUCK! sez: Fall Classic

November 02, 2010
New Toon Mondays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: And no Miami Heat, either

October 28, 2010
New Toon Thursdays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: No, really

October 25, 2010
New Toon Mondays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: One for the kids in Anfield

October 21, 2010
Twice-weekly TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Another one for the kids in Beaver, PA

October 18, 2010
TUCK! has it on good authority that one of the interview questions has something to do with spelling "Primanti Brothers" correctly.

TUCK! sez: Next?

October 14, 2010
New Toon Thursdays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: LinceKKKKKKKKKKKKKKum

October 11, 2010
TUCK! toons every Monday and Thursday, even through the playoffs

TUCK! sez: One for Uncle Jim

October 07, 2010
New Toon Thursdays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Land of 1,000 crunchy coattailers

October 04, 2010
TUCK! toons twice weekly, throughout the playoffs, and beyond

TUCK! sez: Big Tampa Bay-bee

September 30, 2010
TUCK! toons (seriously) congratulates the Rays on their second-ever playoff berth. Really.

TUCK! sez: No trespassing, by Crom

September 27, 2010
TUCK! toons Mondays and Thursdays, right here on THT

TUCK! sez: Cueto-LaRue review redux

September 23, 2010
Somewhere, Steve Moore still smarts.

TUCK! sez: “Lucky” Donny Baseball

September 20, 2010
New Toon Mondays every week with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Valentines Daze

September 16, 2010
New Toon Thursdays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Send in the Umps

September 13, 2010
TUCK! toons every Monday and Thursday

TUCK! sez: Not-so-safe Harbor

September 09, 2010
TUCK! toons, twice-weekly (except national holidays)

TUCK! sez: Windy City forecast? Flake effect

September 02, 2010
Twice-weekly TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: One for the kids in Beaver PA

August 30, 2010
TUCK! brand toons every Monday and Thursday, right here at THT

TUCK! sez: One for the kids in middle America

August 26, 2010
TUCK! toons right here, every Monday and Thursday at THT

TUCK! sez: There goes my BBWAA membership

August 19, 2010
TUCK! toons every Thursday and Monday

TUCK! sez: Probably wouldn’t kick like Cueto anyway

August 16, 2010
TUCK! brand toons every Monday and Thursday

TUCK! sez: And somewhere, Robin Ventura shakes his head

August 12, 2010
TUCK! toons every Thursday and Monday, right here on THT

TUCK! sez: Six Hund-roid

August 09, 2010
TUCK! toons every Monday and Thursday

TUCK! sez: And, Forbes sells a ton of issues in Beantown

August 05, 2010
New Toon Thursdays with TUCK! brand toons

TUCK! sez: Bede Bede Good luck, Buck…

August 02, 2010
TUCK! toons every Monday and Thursday, right here on THT

TUCK! sez: Haren Harang

July 29, 2010
TUCK! toons twice weekly, right here on THT

TUCK! sez: The Tribe abides. Sorta.

July 26, 2010
TUCK! brand toons every Monday and Thursday

TUCK! sez: All done (reprise)

July 22, 2010
TUCK! toons right here, Thursdays and Mondays, on THT

TUCK! sez: The more things change

July 19, 2010
TUCK! brand toons every Monday and Thursday, right here at THT

TUCK! sez: RIP, Mr. Steinbrenner

July 15, 2010
TUCK! extends sincere condolences to George Steinbrenner's family and friends.

TUCK! sez: Sound familiar?

July 12, 2010
TUCK! toons every Monday and Thursday, right here.

TUCK! sez: On the other hand, they did move Bradley

July 08, 2010
TUCK! toons every Thursday and Monday. Except holiday weeks.

TUCK! sez: Tragically hip

July 01, 2010
TUCK! toons right here, every Thursday and Monday

TUCK! sez: Makes you long for the days of Anna Benson, eh?

June 28, 2010
TUCK! toons twice weekly, right here

TUCK! sez: Every day’s a Holliday

June 24, 2010
TUCK! brand toons, right here, every Thursday and Monday

TUCK! sez: Joe West has nuthin’ on this guy

June 21, 2010
TUCK! brand toons, twice weekly, right here

TUCK! sez: Strasburg Week, Part 2

June 17, 2010
TUCK! toons, every Monday and Thursday!

TUCK! sez: Strasburg Week, Pt 1

June 14, 2010
TUCK! brand toons right here, every Monday and Thursday

TUCK! sez: New land speed record

June 10, 2010
TUCK! brand toons every Monday and Thursday, right here at THT.

TUCK! sez: Thanks, Kid

June 07, 2010
TUCK! toons twice weekly

TUCK! sez: Oink, oink

June 03, 2010
New Toon Thursdays with TUCK!

TUCK! sez: Sure, but it’d be fun to try

May 27, 2010
Thursday's twice-weekly TUCK! toon

TUCK! sez: (Obligatory Bill Belichick reference here)

May 24, 2010
TUCK! toons twice-weekly

TUCK! sez: Rhyme of the Migrating Mariner

May 20, 2010
Twice-weekly TUCK! toons tarry Thursdays

TUCK! sez: Paging Harvey Dent

May 17, 2010
TUCK! toons twice weekly

TUCK! sez: Decisions, decisions

May 13, 2010
Twice-weekly TUCK! toons

TUCK! sez: RIP, Mr. Harwell

May 10, 2010
TUCK! extends sincere condolences to Ernie Harwell's family and friends.

TUCK! sez: Das boot

May 06, 2010
TUCK! toons tonnage now Mondays and Thursdays

TUCK! sez: Hey, Jay-Ward

May 03, 2010
TUCK! toon tonage now twice-weekly

TUCK! sez: Stick a fork in him

April 29, 2010
New Toon Thursdays with TUCK!

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