Here's a fun adaptation of Pinocchio by French cartoonist, Winshluss. In this version Pinocchio is a robot who wants to be a real boy.

You can check out some interior pages or order it at Amazon by clicking on these very words. Isn't technology grand?

When I was seven or eight I fell desperately in love with this book. It's one of the reasons I became a writer.

Are these 'last laughs' as in things you say to your former best friend while you're shoving him into a well out on some deserted farmland?