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One of my favorite Mad bits ever.

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[-] ripcord@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This reminds me so much of that time the newspaper accidentally switched the captions between Dennis the Menace and the Far Side

Edit:. For those who haven't seen it. The second one, though both are great

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Clearly Gary Larson’s skill transcends his on comics and has the power to make Dennis the Menace funny.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And they said that it couldn't be done!

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Al Jaffee was an absolute genius.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

One for the ages for sure!

[-] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, although wow did it go downhill starting in the 90s.

[-] theodewere@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

around about 1980 i couldn't walk past a book store without scouring it for anything written by those guys, and of course the latest issue of the magazine itself.. but i also had a bunch of books that were collections of Don Adams, Dick DeBartolo, and Al Jaffee's stuff, i couldn't get enough..

[-] Superfool@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yep. We have ours and you have yours.

Bloom County round about 1987 or so released a collection that included a fake copy of the Bloom Picayune newspaper. In the comics section there was a Family Circus cartoon that showed little Billy holding a turtle and saying "Beanie's so old and smelly he reminds me of Grandma".

[-] RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If you like these check out Dysfunctional Family Circus.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

If you love DFC, make sure to check out Garfield Minus Garfield!

[-] RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I do love me some Garfield Minus Garfield!

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That shit is hilarious

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Really struggling to find an archive that's even semi-complete if not entirely missing

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It goes way back to the early web. Might have even been on Usenet before that. It's super old and multiple people have contributed (I remember they did a couple of mine on their site), so you'll never get it all.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I found plenty of archives talking about it and pointing to the same dead archive. Unfortunately. A lot of individual comics. More than anything else. A lot of copy cats doing their own thing with it... ah well

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Eekum bokum

this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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