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Latest changes to http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/ _______________________________________________ 0a1,290 > > Visit ibiblio > _________________________________________________________ > > Home, Archive, The ibiblio Home Page > _________________________________________________________ > > Doctor Fun presents ... > > Whenever I take a break from updating Doctor Fun, I try to > make up for it by uploading some of my older pre-Doctor Fun > cartoons, all scanned from pen and paper. All of this stuff > was drawn long before the Internet, Photoshop, and all that. I > only add new material to this page when I take breaks, but I > plan to be a lazyass and take lots of breaks, so everybody > wins. > > Most of what I've put here so far has been collections of > cartoons I drew in the mid-80s, all on some theme that > happened to grab me at the time. Some of these themes still > grab me. A few of these cartoons even reappeared as Doctor > Funs. > > Ironically, the only one of these theme collections that was > accepted for publication (by [DEL: Simon & Schuster :DEL] A > Famous Publisher) can't be put online here because of legal > problems. The problems were not with The Famous Publisher but > because of the inability to ultimately come to terms with the > trademark owner of [DEL: Mister Potato Head :DEL] The Topic. > Oh well. All this excitement for what turned out to be nothing > happened years ago. Lucky for me I had a temp job. > > In addition to the theme cartoons, there are plenty of random > old cartoons. Some of these have aged better than others. > Eventually, it will all be here. > > And sometimes I actually draw all-new stuff that doesn't fit > with the "regular" Doctor Fun, so I put it here. You win > either way! > _________________________________________________________ > > September 19, 2005 - Here's the first of two batches, followed > by the second. > > August 29, 2005 - As with the last batch, many of these ideas > have been used at Doctor Funs, but they aren't all like that. > > August 10, 2005 - A few more cartoons from 1991. Unfortunately > most of these were used as early Doctor Funs. > > June 27, 2005 - More cartoons from 1991. > > January 24, 2005 - This finishes up 1990. Most of these > cartoons are about computers (of that era). > > January 17, 2005 - Here's some more cartoons from 1990. Some > of these were apparently drawn around the time of the first > Gulf War. > > January 3, 2005 - Start the new year with two more pages of > 1990 cartoons. One of these cartoons I apparently swiped from > myself for a recent Doctor Fun. > > November 22, 2004 - Another break, another two pages of 1990 > cartoons. One of these cartoons was obviously drawn as a > commentary on something back in 1990, although specifically > I'm not sure what. > > September 27, 2004 - Here's a measly two more pages of 1990 > cartoons. > > September 6, 2004 - The rest of the cartoons I meant to post > in July are hereby posted today.. > > July 12, 2004 - A kind reader pointed out that I'd forgotten > 50 cartoons from 1990. So, I'll upload some of this week, and > some the next. Here's 30 of them. > > June 28, 2004 - Another break, more cartoons from 1990. This > time there's 30 of them. > > June 7, 2004 - Good grief, Doctor Fun - another break! Here's > 20 more cartoons from 1990. > > May 24, 2004 - It was a dark and stormy night - suddenly 50 > more cartoons from 1990 were uploaded. > > March 22, 2004 - Ta-daa! Here's 100 more cartoons from 1990! > > January 4, 2004 - Here's 50 more cartoons from 1990! > > December 20, 2003 - How about even more old cartoons from > 1990? Here's some now, and some more later, as the long break > continues. > > November 23, 2003 - How about some cartoons from 1990 for a > change? You might notice a radical change in format. What > happened between 1989 and 1990? Two things - I was mostly > concentrating on selling to magazines, and it was hard to show > editors what the nice washes I used looked like without > sending them the originals, which they mostly didn't want the > responsibility for handling, and which I mostly didn't want to > send them. So I switched to all black and white pen and ink. > The first year of this change wasn't particularly good, but at > the time I was trying to sell cartoons, and I was selling more > cartoons than I'd ever had before, so it looked like a good > move. I had also started fooling around with computers and > scanners about this time, and the only scanning I could afford > to do was black and white only, so that was the second, and > not as important reason for the switch, since computers and > cartoons didn't turn into much of anything interesting for > another couple years. 1990 was a pretty busy year for reasons > other than cartoons (among other things, I moved from New York > to Chicago). From here on out there aren't as many cartoons > from year-to-year leading up to when Doctor Fun started in > 1993, and many of the cartoons from now to then were used as > material for early Doctor Funs until I decided to stop > recycling old stuff (in anticipation of doing this very > thing). There are 100 on them in this round, and they start > here. Some of these jokes are extremely dated, particularly > the one about Spy Magazine (one of my customers until they > folded). There are a couple funny ones - you'll have to find > them yourself. Enjoy, and Happy Thanksgiving. > _________________________________________________________ > > September 7, 2003, this finishes it up for 1988-89. There are > a couple cartoons that aren't particularly funny anymore, but > I left them all in since this was more than ten years ago, and > not presented as something brand new. These cartoons aren't in > order that they were drawn. The ones with the pencil borders > around the edges are the earliest ones. You'll notice a trend > towards a single topic in the last two pages - those were > drawn for some special project. There is one in there I don't > understand at all - even a Google search didn't help. I'll let > you figure out which one it is. > _________________________________________________________ > > May 19, 2003, why are you not surprised to find 100 more > scanned cartoons from 1988-89. > _________________________________________________________ > > (Because of some problems on ibiblio, Doctor Fun was partially > offline the week of May 12 - the cartoons intended for that > break are being run this week, May 19.) > > May 5, 2003, here are 100 more scanned cartoons from 1988-89. > _________________________________________________________ > > Doctor Fun's Peep-O-Rama 2003 > > Doctor Fun's Peep-o-Rama 2003 is just like Doctor Fun's > Peep-o-Rama 2002, except it's different cartoons. It's about > Peeps. (Three pages.) > _________________________________________________________ > _________________________________________________________ > > Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus 2001 > > December, 2002 - Hooray! Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus 2002 is > here! 41 more lame, sloppily-drawn "holiday" themed cartoons. > If that's not enough, here's Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus > 2001. > > And now there's more - how about some color cartoons from > 1988? There are only 40 of them. I seem to recall that all the > work that went into these didn't result in much, mostly > because of a lack of any good way to make copies of them at > the time. These were drawn like the black and white cartoons > I've been uploading, but colored in with pencils instead of > wash. And don't worry, there are still plenty more black and > white cartoons from 1988-89 to slog through before we're done. > I'm really doing all this backwards. At some point I have to > scan all the stuff from back then that actually got into > print, so I can prove I used to be a real cartoonist. > _________________________________________________________ > > November, 2002 - The next-to-newest thing here is 300 more > cartoons from 1988. On the off chance that you are wondering > why there are so many old cartoons from 1988, they are really > from 1988 to 1989 because my record-keeping maybe wasn't so > good. And they are in no particular order. My opinion would be > that the funnier and better-drawn ones came later, over the > years they got more and more mixed up, so this is what I had > when I started scanning. (All of this stuff is already scanned > - I'm just sitting on it to use it when I take breaks.) I > lived in New York from 1985 to 1989, which explains some of > the themes and the building in the background, including the > World Trade Center (so I slipped it into the logo). If you > want to see them all, start here. > _________________________________________________________ > > Doctor Fun's Peep-O-Rama > > Gather 'round kids, it's time to for Doctor Fun's Peep-O-Rama, > 30 more thoughtlessly written and hastily drawn cartoons about > Peeps that didn't make the cut as "real" Doctor Fun cartoons. > Don't read too many at once, you'll get sick. (Three pages.) > _________________________________________________________ > > Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus 2001 > > It's Doctor Fun's Big Fat Christmas Bonus. These are a bunch > of cartoons I sketched but didn't use as "real" Doctor Fun > cartoons for 2001. I had a lot of sketches left over, so I > decided to quickly draw some of them in a slovely and > thoughtless manner and try to pass it off as my Christmas Gift > to You. > _________________________________________________________ > > 1987 > > Here are most of the loose cartoons I have lying around from > 1987. There is no theme to this set of cartoons, but there are > a lot of them. Many of them aren't even funny. I leave it as > an exercise for you to decide which ones are funny and which > ones aren't. Why 1987? Most of the extra stuff I've put online > already is from 1987. Going back through the old cartoons, > 1987 is the first year where the drawings and the jokes seem > to hit more than they miss. Unlike the cartoons from 1988-89, > which I seem to have neglected to put dates on, so there's a > huge honking pile of them to wade through, I actually know > which ones I drew in 1987. If there had been an Internet and a > Doctor Fun back in 1987, this is what you would have got. > > Some of these cartoons weren't, er, "drawn good" to begin > with, and scanning could only fix them up a little. The > cartoons with the blobby dark parts are that way because > that's how I drew them. Who knows? At the time I lived in a > basement apartment in Queens, NYC, with 10-watt bulbs in all > the lamps. > > (In case you start reading and wonder where it all ends, 1987 > goes on for 35 pages - 351 cartoons.) > _________________________________________________________ > > Blobs > > If you happen to be looking for a collection of cartoons > mostly about amoebas, then Blobs may be the place for you. > _________________________________________________________ > > Boogers, A Celebration is a collection of hand-picked cartoons > on a certain subject. Only the most assiduous digging has > pulled out these treasures. > _________________________________________________________ > > The Eyes Have It > > The Eyes Have It is mostly about gigantic eyeballs, with some > other random eye jokes. (I'm extremely nearsighted, and spent > a lot of time at the eye doctor when I was young.) > _________________________________________________________ > > Heads Up > > Heads Up is in two sections, the first section features the > madcap antics of decapitated heads floating about in jars; the > second section features people who have managed to somehow > grow more than one head, and the shenanigans that ensue. > _________________________________________________________ > > The Iceman Cometh > > The Iceman Cometh is about snowmen. > _________________________________________________________ > > Science Fair > > Science Fair was actually drawn a couple years before all the > other stuff here. Science Fair documents a visit to the > so-called Hoagiesville Science and Engineering Fair, with > exhibits in different age divisions, prizes, handouts, etc. > _________________________________________________________ > > Doctor Fun's Grab Bag > > If that's not enough, several years ago I uploaded about 200 > old scanned cartoons and called it Doctor Fun's Grab Bag. The > format is a bit low-rent, even compared to my other minimalist > efforts, but you are clicking on it. Clicking. Clicking. > Click. > _________________________________________________________ > > Home, Archive, The ibiblio Home Page > _________________________________________________________ > _________________________________________________________ > > > These pages maintained, and contents copyrighted, by David > Farley, [email protected] _______________________________________________ dr-fun-changes mailing list http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/dr-fun-changes http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/ http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/books.htm http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/faq.html http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/book-faq.html Note: Links aren't included in the diff.