debenedi@yale-comix.UUCP (Robert DeBenedictis) (04/28/84)
I'm talking here about B. Kliban and Roz Chast. They're my favorites. They seem to have the market cornered when it comes to a certain strange brand of humor. I've seen others try to duplicate it to no avail. Actually, Koren comes close, but you can usually put your finger on why you think a Koren is funny. With Kliban you'll laugh but you won't know why, and if you do know why you probably feel that you're the only one who is interested in your perception of its humor. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Larson's "Beyond The Far Side" book is pretty good/weird. If you know of other cartoonists like these, tell the net. Oh well, just trying to start up an interesting new topic. Baalz and york ort now. "Now, We're Never Alone" Another Message In The Bottle from Robert DeBenedictis
jeff@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Bishop) (05/01/84)
Both Chast and Kliban are absurdists. Their cartoons are not too dissimilar to the "No soap - radio" type jokes. They are both my favorite cartoonists. I have found that they are much funnier in book format, where you can read many of their cartoons at once, than in magazines. By the way my favorite cartoon is Chast's "Rudeness Galore" which was first in The New Yorker and subsequently in "Unscientific Americans." Jeff Bishop (..!ihnp4!oddjob!jeff)
myers@uwvax.ARPA (05/02/84)
Nobody's mentioned Walt Kelly and *Pogo*! Classic political satire, loved by Trudeau and Breathed, among others.
matt@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Matt Crawford) (05/03/84)
I agree with uwvax!myers: Pogo is the greatest, and transferred well from newspapers to books. "Is a cartoonist a newspaperman?" -- "Is a barnacle a ship?" ___________________________________________________ Matt Arpa: Crawford@ANL-MCS.ARPA Crawford UUCP: ihnp4!oddjob!matt