A week or so ago I was working on my presentation on Aya of Yopougon (for the French class I take) when, to my shock, I found out about the death of its illustrator, Clément Oubrérie. A talented artist with so much visual verve and imagination.
I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.
This is a standard adventure story but all of the dialog is written in nearly unreadable fonts. You can kind of make it our in this image, but when it was printed in Flagpole Magazine, it was on newsprint and a little smaller and ended up being impossible to read.
POOR FONT CHOICE ADVENTURE FUNNIES.
I'm like 80% sure this idea came out of one of our weekly meetings for lunch at the downtown Taco Stand. I wish I could remember some of our stupid ideas that didn't make it into his comics.
Panel 1: Count Frankenmummy, a detective who is a vampire and a mummy and also a frankenstein, stands across from a desk in an office. The man behind the desk says "Well, Count Frankenmummy, the bank robbers were described as wearing spacesuits. Any leads?" Panel 2: Count Frankenmummy, puctured from the chest up, replies "MMMBLAH!" Panel 3: the man behind the desk points at Count Frankenmummy and saus "Dammit, I was told that you were the best in the detective field! You're off this case!" The Count replies "MMMMBLAH!" Panel 4: A man standing outside the police station says "Aw, poor Count Frankenmummy! He's not doing so good!" Panel 5: The same man looking over his shoulder, says "I hope he remembers to write down what he wants to say since no one can understand his cryptic monster moanings!" Panel 6: We're back in the office. The man behind the desk is watching Count Frankenmummy write a note. The man says "What's this? You're writing me a note? Did you figure out who robbed the bank?" A "thought bubble" picturing a light bulb rises from The Count's head. Panel 7: A close-ip of the note Count Frankenmummy has written. It reads, in crude handwriting, "YOUR MOMMA"
The Daring Adventures of Count Frankenmummy
Okay, the gag here is that a guy tells the classic "farmer's daughter" joke but in this version the titular daughter is an octopus and the tentacles of the octopus emerge from the 3rd panel and obscure all of the other panels, including the art and dialog, in the rest of the comic.
Hey! Didja Hear the One About the Farmer's Daughter
Okay, this one's a long one.... The top comic is the one about the Fabulous Thunderbirds fan club. Panel 1: A guy is behind a podium addressing a crowd. He says "Wow, so does anybody have any stories about the F.T.B.s?" A shadowy figure in the crowd replies "Sure! 'Twist the Knife' is an overlooked classic! Panel 2: Another guy in the crowd says "Seeing that guy in the 'Wrap It Up' video inspired me to grow a mustache!" the guy next to him says "Me too! Whoa!" From off-panel a voice yells "ALRIGHT! BREAK IT UP!" Panel 3: A yeti wearing a bucket hat and overalls enters the room. Someone in the crowd (unseen) yells "HILLBILLY YETI!" The Hillbilly Yeti (a character of which, I am proud to say, I am a co-creator) yells "Yeah, that's right! I just wanna say that The Fabulous Thunderbirds SUCK!" Offscreen, the gathered fan club responds with a gasp. Comic 2, "Big Space Pole" Panel 1: Two scientists talk to each other. One says "We have built a pole that's billions of miles long carrying a sign to communicate with aliens!" The second scientist replies "Amazing!" Panel 2: The first scientist says "The sign is our way of reaching out across the stars. It is truly a scientific triumph."The second scientist asks "What does the sign say?" Panel 3: In space, we see the top of the big space pole. The sign is an image of Calvin (from "Calvin and Hobbes") urinating on the word "ALIENS." Nearby, a spaceship hovers with a word ballon that says "!?"
"Like Every Second Monday of Every Month: The Fabulous Thunderbirds Fan Club Meets at 253 Oak Street / Big Space Pole"
Two comics strips. The top one is called "Tiny Porn Comix" It's a series of panels that vaguely suggest sexual activity, but they're drawn comically small. You gotta understand that Patrick also knew that the final version would be printed on newsprint, further degrading the sharpness of the image and making the "porn" even more incomprehensible. the second comic is canned "the Boot" in the first pane, a guy is kneeling by a shovel, and he is holding a map. He sings "I found a treasure map! It was a piece of Crap! There was no buried loot! Just an old leather boot!" In the second panel, the same guy sits on a couch. The guy is holding a remote control. The "ole leather boot" is beside him. The guy sings "The boot came home with me. We sat and watched TV. The boot liked M*A*S*H* a lot, the one with the robot." In the 3rd panel, another guy (who looks alarmingly like me... Patrick would do this sometimes and it never ceased to amuse me) comes in from the right side of the panel and says to the guy on the couch "Paul, quit singing. There never was a robot in M*A*S*H*.You're just high again!"
Tiny Porn Comix / The Boot
Today would have been the 50th birthday of my friend Patrick Dean, who left this world in 2021. In honor of my beautiful friend, here are some of my favorites of the seemingly infinite number of comics he made...
One truly can only conclude this is because they like Trump and want him to rule us like a king
I ate your PLUMS and I cannot lie
I'm guilty and I won't deny
That when I found them kept in a pretty chilly place
yeah I put them in my face
and man, YUM, couldn't have enough
'Cause you know that my tum is stuffed,
But you were breakfast saving,
Your forgiveness now I'm craving
actual nytimes headline FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.
you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides
the nytimes:
This is the first time I've spotted a Wallace and Ladmo mention in the wild, after years of hearing Eleanor's Arizonan parents talk about them.
Evil is real and it's just a job the feds will pay you to do
41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours.
Betrayed and murdered by the United States government.
42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.
experts alarmed as they are herded into 'concentration camps'
A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads ‘Maybe it will…’, the word ’Happen’ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ‘…Today’.
In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
in 1983, 90% of U.S. media was spread across 50 companies. in 2012, it's these six Comcast, Newscorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, CBS
in 2012, it was six. now it's four.
One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy Warner Brothers with $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a 60 Minutes CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.
Literally impeach every single impeachable person in the entire chain of command, including Trump.
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
I think the thing that enrages me the most about Musk is that he presents himself as some sci-fi nerd hero doing everything possible to save humanity by going to new planets.
If your plan for saving humanity doesn’t include the people already on earth, you’re just a racist piece of shit.
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
This is a pogrom