B. Kliban’s vast body of playful, surreal irreverent free-form work is well overdue for re-discovery. An innovator who significantly expanded the realm of cartooning, Kliban inspired a generation with his no-limits approach. His numerous books – Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head, Whack Your Porcupine, Two Guys Fooling Around With the Moon among them – spread the Kliban vision far and wide, and put the term “Klibanesque” in the dictionary. His constructions – whether single-panel drawings (“Mental floss.”), multi-panel sequences (“Four Useless Motions”) or eight-panel image-poems (“Sheer Pottery”) – push fearlessly forward into unexplored territory. Welcome to his unique and compelling world.
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Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago
anchovy pancakes?
How about strawberries and garum instead?
Or ice cream and mayonaise?
Or pickles and listerine?
Rand
said, 3 months ago
Does all that small-print chatter help the strip or just cause me to skip it?
I thought that Kli was an artist more than a writer, and now he’s proved it.
LafInLarry
said, 3 months ago
Yeah, Ted, and watch our for her terrible swift sword.
And why the heck is she singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic in a place like that?
Are we left to assume that’s boysenberry syrup on those anchovy pancakes?
The questions these false starts leave unanswered! And three more to go. . .Unless the promise of 6 was itself a false start.
StCleve72 said, 3 months ago
@Rand
I think he’s an absurdist, if that’s an actual category, and so you take the good with the bad. Trying to make sense isn’t always productive, you just kind of have to let it wash over you. Perhaps you could say the same about the Pythons; what do you think?
lafayetteann said, 3 months ago
@StCleve72
Yes. Letting pythons wash over you is always appropriate.
jtpozenel said, 3 months ago
I’ve never seen these latest Kliban comics. Don’t really care for them as much…too “wordy” and lacking the impact of the others that are…well…less “wordy”.
StCleve72 said, 3 months ago
@Pete Rogan
no soap, radio?