A Crowded Life in Comics – Walter Berndt

by Rick Marschall









Berndt Memories



My gregarious Uncle Gus
used to greet people with a salutation that began, “Shake the hand that shook
the hand of...” and would supply names, invariably fantasized, ranging from
Babe Ruth to Spike Jones to Weenie Phimpf.



But there is a serious side
to the concept, and I am grateful, myself, to have been born and reared in a
time and places, and