Bozo by Kaamran Hafeez
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Brainwaves by Betsy StreeterAbout Bozo
If a Far Side panel and a New Yorker cartoon were to mate and conceive a child, Bozo might be it. Whether creating a crop circle with a lawnmower or planting Heather in the garden, Bozo’s diverse cast of buffoons make complete blockheads of themselves in as many boneheaded ways as Bozo’s creator can think of. Following hours of painstaking drawing and erasing, followed by hours of painstaking pointing and clicking, Bozo is saved and uploaded to uclick’s servers where it appears on the Gocomics website each week.
Bozo cartoons are available on mugs, T-shirts, greeting cards and more! To visit the Bozo Online Store, click here.http://www.cafepress.com/bozocomic
© 2009 Kaamran Hafeez - All Rights Reserved.
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Margueritem
said,
10 months ago
The smite is mighty.
wndrwrthg
said,
10 months ago
“Hairy thunderer or Cosmic muffin”, you decide.
Edcole1961 said, 10 months ago
I have “Deteriorata” in my MP3 collection. Time for me to go passively amid the noise and waste.
Goldie66 said, 10 months ago
A church for the dyslexic?
Fenyugreek Tubbsbott...
said,
10 months ago
So many levels, soooo many levels!
oldlegodad
said,
10 months ago
FT3, You agree this toon should be on the editorial side of this site?
Hugh B. Hayve said, 10 months ago
Aw geez, not another @n@l retentive categorizer type!
Fenyugreek Tubbsbott...
said,
10 months ago
oldlegodad71
Good sir, I agree that God in his infinite wisdom made all comics equal. And that this comic (existentially speaking) is as the Zen masters might say; “just so.” Mrs. Tubbsbottl however in HER infinite wisdom, emphatically suggests that I am “quite bonkers”!
TheWildSow said, 10 months ago
Lysdexics of the world, untie!
calvinandquestionmark said, 10 months ago
Is it just me or is this cartoon use a lot of OLD jokes that are found on the web. I thought I had seen this idea before and was I right.
If you type “Beware of God cartoon” into Google and hit images, you’ll find this cartoon idea has already been done OVER AND OVER AND OVER again.
Sure, this is a funny idea, but it’s been done a million times before.
Where’s the originality???? This cartoon drawer might want to check to see if his ideas haven’t already been done before.
Nozzi said, 10 months ago
This strip is dedicated to Israel.
Allahu Akbar!
Fenyugreek Tubbsbott...
said,
10 months ago
Nozzi
What are you trying to say lad, be more specific. Thanks.
Hafeez said, 10 months ago
Hello everyone and thank you for your comments. I think the most appropriate response to calvinandquestionmark is to note that this seems to be a person who spends a lot of energy ‘ripping’ on others while spending little or no energy on creative work of his own (if I’m wrong, please post your blogspot). Having said that, he makes a valid point about researching ideas using google. It’s a good idea I hadn’t thought of and one I may use in the future. For the record, I generated this idea without the aid of outside sources, though some cartoonists use others’ work to generate ideas and this is called ‘switching’ and is recognized in the field as a valid/legal source of material. In googling ‘Beware of God cartoon’ I did not see one with the sign in front of a church which to me adds a layer of complexity to the idea and to my mind improves on the idea of the ‘beware of god’ sign.
Happy commenting.
calvinandquestionmark said, 10 months ago
Hafeez says:
Hello everyone and thank you for your comments. I think the most appropriate response to calvinandquestionmark is to note that this seems to be a person who spends a lot of energy ‘ripping’ on others while spending little or no energy on creative work of his own (if I’m wrong, please post your blogspot). Having said that, he makes a valid point about researching ideas using google. It’s a good idea I hadn’t thought of and one I may use in the future. For the record, I generated this idea without the aid of outside sources, though some cartoonists use others’ work to generate ideas and this is called ‘switching’ and is recognized in the field as a valid/legal source of material. In googling ‘Beware of God cartoon’ I did not see one with the sign in front of a church which to me adds a layer of complexity to the idea and to my mind improves on the idea of the ‘beware of god’ sign.
Happy commenting.
Well….first off, I not a “his” and secondly ‘m a cartoon reader as opposed to someone who creatively does cartoons…but why do I have to do cartoons to comment on them? You;re not a politician, but I bet you comment on politics. What’s the difference? On one hand you chastise me for bringing this to your attention and then on the other you congratulate me for bringing this good idea to your attention. My intention was not to embarrass you, but it seems I have and that’s why I’m guessing you’re lashing out at me (but at the same time thanking me because, well, I’m right) the only reason I knew that idea has been done was because I’ve read cartoons for many years. If I had just told you it had been done before, you would think I was making it up and was just, as you say, “ripping” on others. I’m not. I’m sorry if you feel that way. Your response is totally defensive (except for the part where you acknowledge I have a good idea). The fact is,even using google, you may still not see your ideas if it’s all ready been done, but, if it’s been done A LOT of times before (like the one you did) then you WILL see it and save yourself and readers from the aggravation of having to read recycled cartoons. I never accused you of stealing a cartoon idea, but you sure read it that way based on your response. Why is that? In fact, my inference was that you just didn’t know it had been done (read my last sentence in y post above). I don’t know, but you might want to think about that.
Goldie66 said, 10 months ago
A polite instructive reply from
the cartoonist has been totally
misinterpreted. Keep up the good
work Hafeez!
Margueritem
said,
10 months ago
Hafeez: Thank you, sir, for your polite response.
Fenyugreek Tubbsbott...
said,
10 months ago
Hafeez: Thanks good sir for your comment. Keep up the good work.
wndrwrthg
said,
10 months ago
If one wishes to pick nits, there is no joke or story line that has not been done before. This is the first time I have seen this cartoon and I liked it. Whether it has been done once before or a thousand times before matters little, if this is your first viewing. Thank you Mr. Hafeez.
KingRat said, 10 months ago
how many google hits do you get if you look up “this comic is unoriginal” or “I’ve seen it done a thousand times before”
Hugh B. Hayve said, 10 months ago
Glad you could pop in Hafeez. Luv the strip. That calvinandquestionmark is a known whiner and complainer, if this comic was done before, I’ve never seen it, and believe me, I’ve read a lot of comics.
Nozzi said, 10 months ago
Fennyugreek, I, myself can not say what I am trying to say. Maybe because it’s transcendent. Inshallah (hopefully) prophesy is saying it for me.
Daviddeer said, 10 months ago
I think someone like Calvinandquestionmark, who researches comics just because he thinks he saw it or something similar, then pats himself on the back and boasts about….I think he needs to get a life.
AND…I thought I saw the word Calvin somewhere before, so I researched GOcomics and I was right! There’s a comic strip called Calvin. Guess someone else is using someone else’s name before doing some research on an original name for himself. TOUCHE’
calvinandquestionmark said, 10 months ago
So, I point out a fact (and prove) that this cartoon idea has been used numerous times and I’m the bad person here?
What’s more it’s interpreted that I’m somehow picking on the cartoonist, yet HE HIMSELF, agrees it’s a good idea and that he’ll do it in the future.
How bizarre?
Well, shoot the lady (obviously a bunch of mysogynists here).
Fine. My point has been duly noted by the cartoonist himself and that will help him inprove his product. I’ll play the bad cop here. Oh, and for those that don’t mind reading the same cartoons over and over, you can go over to Quigmans because that cartoonist use the same cartoons oer and over again. Then there’s Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes and…
Pretty soon, with the readers’ attitudes, the syndicates will continue to give you what you want and more by narrowing your choices down to ONE cartoon, the SAME one, EVERY DAY. It’ll be viewable with a micron microscope, too.
Doctor Toon
said,
10 months ago
For what it’s worth; I’ve never seen this comic done in front of a church either, so I class it original. Why does my opinion matter? I’ve been collecting newspaper comics for over 30 years. My archive totals over 280,000 comics and fills a room of my house.
Not one to pick fights on the internet because I consider it a waste of my time, I will say this:
calvinandquestionmark, it does seem as if your main purpose in posting here is to deride others. This says as much about your character as I need to know.
calvinandquestionmark said, 10 months ago
doctortoon
Say what you will…
You say you read so many caroons yet you’ve NEVER hear BEWARD OF GOD before?
All I did was point out to him that this was a well-known joke…check my post. You claim I’m deriding him. Huh? I point out a verifiable fact - that this is a well-known joke and I’M deriding him. I don’t think this cartoonist appreciated me bringing this out in the open, but it was not done in malice. I don’t think it’s too much to ask a cartoonist to check his cartoon ideas against the possibility that it’s been done before or MANY times before. And saying, as someone here did that they didn’t see this BEWARE OF GOD applied to a church. Oh ,come on…it’s still the same joke. I’m not sure why so many people are running to the defense of the cartoonist. I’m not persecuting him…I’m just pointing out a fact…a fact that I didn’t just say, but proved:
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3A*%3AIE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7SUNA&q=beware+of+god+
Despite this cartoonist being taken aback by my pointing this out, I give him credit for acknowledging it’s a good idea to check his ideas using google and he will start doing it.
So, call me what you want. Say you KNOW what MY intentions are (I guess you’re a mind reader), but in the end, this cartoonist will be even better than he is by increasing the chances he’s doing more original work.
JDG
said,
10 months ago
having read all this, the name “Bozo” comes to mind!
Hugh B. Hayve said, 10 months ago
Sounds like calvinandquestionmark needs a humongous dose of Kwitcherbichen.
Radical-Knight
said,
10 months ago
Excellent work Hafeez. I’ve heard the joke before and may have seen something similar, but then I’ve had about 50 years of looking at cartoons to have run across something.
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Your response to the troll was admirable but I’m afraid some people just have to be right no matter who they insult or criticize. Trolls will be trolls. They’re obvious and obnoxious, and nobody likes them. Do people come to this site because of her? NOT! Will people leave if she does? NOT!!
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Miss Calvinwhothehellcares – Your vanity says you are a very lonely, insecure, unhappy person.
alife said, 10 months ago
I click here by accident!
Here’s My 2¢. Not it will matter the comic is nicely dawn gets to the point. EVERYONE Has their OWN take on LIFE! Plus Not everyone HAS Seen ALL the @#$%^&* ¿¿ has seen! AND Most of all NOTHING I repeat
NOTHING IS NEW UNDER The sun!
Also NOTHING last for ever!, PLAY nice We are All at least 50th cousins!
efmarotta said, 10 months ago
So that is what the Pearly Gates look like….
bozofan said, 10 months ago
RUETERS: … startup cartoonist was struck by lightining 7 consecutive times while being runout of town for inducing open thought in public. It was only on the 7 strike that he realized it was not one of his fans seeking revenge for a seemingly unoriginal idea, but some other entity!!
Goldie66 said, 10 months ago
Oops! He will spas het earply stage
whit untied lysdexics?
bozofan2 said, 10 months ago
more like Beware of Blog :)
Hafeez said, 10 months ago
Oh my goodness me, what a torrent has been unleashed by my response to calvinandquestionmark! Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut!
Thank you all for the comments supporting my work by the way - that is much appreciated.
I was a bit put off at first by calvinandquestionmark’s strong approach to commenting, however
looking back at this, I think that the motivation behind calvinandquestionmark’s comments is probably the desire to see great cartoons. I think calvinandquestionmark probably loves cartoons and wants to see great cartoons. What calvinandquestionmark is doing, actually, is keeping cartoonists honest. An aquaintance of mine once said that if you are surrounded by people who are of the same opinion as you, you never grow.
I appreciate being taken to task (and forcefully so!) on the issue of originality because as my work enters the professional arena I need to be especially mindful of this issue - because it is an issue - for fans of cartoons and between cartoonists, by the way.
Dan Reynolds of Reynolds Unwrapped emailed me the other day to let me know that I had posted a cartoon that is almost an exact replica of one he had done awhile ago, but has not yet been posted on gocomics, and which I had never seen before. It is the ‘toon posted on Jan. 5 - the horse on crates (In his ‘toon the horse is on blocks). Now, I generated this idea while sitting alone in the library with a thesaurus. I wasn’t even aware of Dan Reynold’s work until he contacted me. And in fact, someone posted a comment on my Jan. 5th page pointing out that this idea had originally been done by Gary Larson, “In Search of the Far Side, page 84. Also The Far Side Gallery, page 157”, to quote the poster. So there you are. As the wise commenter pointed out, “Sometimes the mind doesn’t make it clear which ideas are coming from ‘memory’ and which are coming from ‘creativity’”. Ne’er a truer statement was spoken regarding the creation of cartoon gags.
My work in the future will be a little better for this exchange with calvinandquestionmark, who’s avatar, by the way, is based on my all time favorite modern day cartoon strip. Now there was an example of great cartoons. Bill Watterson, how did you do that?!
Happy commenting!
boozoothatswho said, 10 months ago
Is setting up a bogus premise just intellectually dishonest, or is it just boneheaded? As the late great George said, beware of darkness.
boozoothatswho said, 10 months ago
J. Robert Oppenheimer believed in God. Too bad the people that claim to for political reasons and the people that congratulate themselves on being too smart for that rubbish don’t have a clue.
If God is physics, E=mcsqared is nonetheless true, and so is red shift. Creation is God becoming God whether or not Pat Robertson or the Pope or the giggling idiot Dalai Lama believe it.
The problem with the cartoon? (Well maybe it was meant to be ambivalent), is that churches don’t lock doors. Nor do mosques or synagogues or temples. People that manipulate faith do that unseemly and immoral job. For every Cheney and Chuck Colson, you have your Reinhold Niebhur and Mother Teresa.
Hepcatt said, 10 months ago
Nice work Kaamran
I’m gonna make up some signs like that and carry them on my person. Just in care I need to post one on some symbol of power masquerading as goodwill.
Hep
Hepcatt said, 10 months ago
Oh, and I’m reminded of one of my favorite cartoons: the “beware of Doug” one from the master cartoonist. It’s completely different of course but still I thought of it.
Hep
ktfergus said, 10 months ago
http://www.basketcasecomix.com/?p=247
bozofan said, 10 months ago
I think what separates Hafeez’s cartoon from your link, Mr. Ferguson, is that the caption below the KFerguson panel ruins the philosophical idea on many levels - Hafeez took a chance that no caption would open up debate, thought and maybe misunderstanding. Where over-explanation in the Kferguson cartoon has maybe saved the author some critique, the Kferguson cartoon suffered. Here the artist suffers at the expense of his art. I find Hafeez’s attempt to invoke thought quite attractive.