YOU ALL ALREADY KNOW THAT THIS is the most important new daily comic strip since “LONELY BOY AND IMAGINARY TIGER.”
BUT IT STRUCK ME today that Koford’s “Laugh-Out-Loud Cats” is not just a daily comic, but specifically A SINGLE PANEL daily comic.
AND MORE SPECIFICALLY AND STRANGELY: a good one.
THIS, MY FRIENDS, is a bold innovation. Has Ape-Lad broken curse of PLUGGERS?*
(ONE MIGHT HAVE SAID the “Curse of Ziggy” or “Curse of Howard Huge,” but that would be mean.)
(OR: ONE MIGHT HAVE SAID the “Curse of the Lockhorns.” But I actually admire the sheer, misanthropic brio of those Lockhorns.)
(After all, it can’t be easy to distill all the drunken, marital loathing of WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and pour it all into a single, hate-filled funny pages panel day after day after day.
YOU ALL ALREADY KNOW THAT THIS is the most important new daily comic strip since “LONELY BOY AND IMAGINARY TIGER.”
BUT IT STRUCK ME today that Koford’s “Laugh-Out-Loud Cats” is not just a daily comic, but specifically A SINGLE PANEL daily comic.
AND MORE SPECIFICALLY AND STRANGELY: a good one.
THIS, MY FRIENDS, is a bold innovation. Has Ape-Lad broken curse of PLUGGERS?*
(ONE MIGHT HAVE SAID the “Curse of Ziggy” or “Curse of Howard Huge,” but that would be mean.)
(OR: ONE MIGHT HAVE SAID the “Curse of the Lockhorns.” But I actually admire the sheer, misanthropic brio of those Lockhorns.)
(After all, it can’t be easy to distill all the drunken, marital loathing of WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and pour it all into a single, hate-filled funny pages panel day after day after day.
The photo of Newt on a rock came to me via the great @hotdogsladies . I do not know its origin. Yale trained me to cite my sources, Internetfrom Twitter for iPhone
1984, BURBANK, CA: Byron Allen makes a pact with the devil during an unusually satanic segment of Real People. As co-host Skip Stephenson’s dog, Hobo, whined piteously and bled from his eyes, Allen swore eternal allegiance to Satan in exchange for a career hosting syndicated television programs until the end of time. Satan appeared by possessing the body of Mark Russell. — MAY 4