Comics
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What I call "comics" is lighter ("less serious") literature than
"graphic novels".
(But it is not necessarily of poorer quality!)
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The funniest comic strip of all times, at least for anyone who has
ever worked as an engineer or as a consultant for a big corporation,
is Scott Adams'
Dilbert.
There is simply no competition!
Dilbert is the best!
He's my hero!
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In Norwegian:
(These are not original Norwegian strips, just
translations)
In Esperanto:
In English:
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In 1996
it was a hundred years since the first comic strip appeared
as a periodic publication.
It was called
the
Yellow Kid,
and consisted of a little boy with a
yellow shirt which functioned as his speech bubble.
(Although the Yellow Kid was not really a "strip", since it usually
contained one picture only, the same is true for many more recent comics,
like those of
Gary Larson.)
The year after Yellow Kid appeared, in 1897, the Katzenjammer Kids
(based on the German
Max
und Moritz) shaped the art into what we today think of as comics, with
several pictures making up a story, little lines in the pictures
indicating movement, and many other such features that we all
understand so readily today.
The most popular comic strip in Norway (and several other countries,
e.g. Finland) is Donald Duck. But I like the humor
in the oldest Donald strips better than in newer ones. Here are a couple of
Silly Symphony oldies:
I also like comics by Dany very much. He doesn't make up the stories
himself, but he draws them wonderfully, and they are usually very
amusing (here in Danish):
Cartoons
I also like some cartoons (vitsetegninger).
Some examples:
For some more examples of comics, see
The Comic Zone.
Funny smut
Another genre of funny comics is the raunchy kind:
Ranging from Jessica Rabbit without a bra
to the Tijuana Bibles,
if you take a well-known toon and put it in a pornographic setting,
the result can often be very funny.
Some examples:
- Jasmine
(from "Aladdin")
- Ariel
(from "The Little Mermaid")
- The
Toonspot
(where you will recognize Fred Flintstone and many others)
It isn't always necessary to include a toon or any person at all
to make a dirty cartoon...
Bruce Bolinger manages quite well
without that!
This brings us to my
favorite type of comics: the
sexually explicit
ones!
First created: May 14 1994
Last modified: Thu Nov 26 10:27:50 CET 1998
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