Misanthropic Cavalcade #1
What a great title for a collection of mostly one page strips. These were all apparently in a local (to Athen GA, that is) paper called Flagpole, but I don't live in Athens, so they're mostly new to me. In here you have the dangers of leaving a baby unattended outdoors, starving, paleo-boxing, Santa vs. an airplane, rabbit hunting, a bad break-up, fascinating facts about Joe, and a discussion about thresher sharks. Good stuff all around, as "good stuff" for page long strips mostly means to me that I laughed out loud a few times during the reading of the comic, so this definitely passes that test. Also it was tough to pick just one sample, which is another good sign. Its' $2, here's his website, which has more comics of his for you to read, if you need more convincing, or maybe just want to spend some time at work laughing.
Misanthropic Cavalcade #3
There must be something in the water down there in Athens, Georgia. Way too many of those people are way too good at this comics business. This is another collection of weekly strips from a local paper, and if these are the greatest hits it makes me wonder about the "crappy" ones, as these are 100% pure awesome. In here we get stories about closure after the end of a relationship, snail murder (probably not the way you think), a walk in the park, how girls are dumb, a conversation between ducks and a platypus, a young boy trying to train birds to clean his teeth, a cautionary tale of the sea, putting on the moves, insomnia, freezing up in front of the women folk, a new hat for a little girl, a romantic practical joke, and aliens. I could go on and on about how many times I laughed while reading this, but why bother when you could figure all this out for yourself? I went over to Joe's website and he has (I counted) 161 strips up there for free, mostly in color, and mostly not the ones included in this collection. People who come to this site to find good places to kill time at work, take note. Also, I couldn't decide on just one sample strip this time around, so I'm using two. Joe, if you would like to sue me, please note that I have no money to speak of. I'm offering as a settlement every comic I have with either Quasar or Namor in it. $3
If you ask Nathan Gelgud to draw something, he probably will. Recently, he drew a page of famous dogs for a guy to give to his wife. No joke. Proof positive that dirt-cheap dudes and low-brow ladies are a match made in heaven.
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He's taken on a lot over the past decade and a half. There have been aliens and vampires and dungeons and dragons. In 2000 he wrote about the adventures of Santa Claus, and in 2001 it was the story of pint-sized king. It was the following year, however, that Lewis Trondheim took on what was, perhaps, the most difficult subject matter of his storied career—his own life. That year's four volume Travel Notebooks marked a return to autobiography, after years spent tackling nearly every other subject in the known universe. The trend continued with the sublimely titled Nothing Diaries, which have subsequently been collected in the States as the volumes, Little Nothings.
