Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 05, 2009

It’s Quasimodo, the friendly neighborhood grave digger.

Or, he could be starting a new career as a reserection man….

No, it’s Igor, I’m pretty sure.

Check out the hood ornament on Lio’s trike. Memento mori?

Steven Kings proof reader?

I bet that he picks him up.

I’ll say it again. Because what else is there to say really?

I LOVE THIS STRIP. IT IS MY FAVORITE. HANDS DOWN.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Lio’s not sure…but maybe he’ll play a hunch.

Pacejv - glad I’m not the only one who thought of Pet Semetary. But for me, it was the theme from the movie getting stuck in my head….

I want to see what he digs up.

I hope Lio has room for Quasimodo on his trike; who knows how far it is to the sematery!

Actually, it’s “Ygor” not “Igor” and “Ygor” wasn’t a hunchback but a shepard with a broken neck who “stole bodie…they said.” The hunchback assistant to Frankenstein was Fritz played by Dwight Frye who was later hanged with his whip by Boris Karloff’s Monster. Ygor was played by Bela Lugosi and this guy doesn’t look like either of them, but the popular misconception that “Igor” is today.

either that, or like me, they’ve read a lot of Terry Pratchett! he’s got a whole rather large family of Igors from Uberwald. he doesn’t have enough thumbs to be a proper Igor though.

He’s going to pick up Abby Normal’s brain for Dr. Frederick Frankenstein.

Hump……..what hump?

GEE1A - but what about hunchhikers?

His face rings a bell, I think it is Quasimodo….

“It’s Eye-gor”….M. Feldman

It’s definitely my interpretation of Fritz. Fritz was a much darker character in the movie, so I gave him sort of a happy-go-lucky facial expression, they way that LIO would see the fringe of society.

Mark, I’m giving your book to 25 yr old son for Christmas. Amazingly, he isn’t familiar!

As always, love the strip!

Haha …that’s funny! A 25-year-old unfamiliar with a newspaper comic strip? That’s incredibly normal these days.

Thanks for exposing him and supporting my strip!

what guitarmutt said.

lio is the highlight of my day, which says a lot about the quality of my days. or not.

“It’s Eye-gor”….M. Feldman

Best avatar/quote combo ever.

Dear Mr. Tatulli:

Thank you for visiting, thank you for your strip(s) and thank yu for caring about us, your fans.

I second that….

KaminoNeko, …great minds sometimes share the same shovel!

God, I love the world in which Lio lives…

He’s got to learn to spell hi own name. His sign should read, “Hello, my name is …Sam A Terry” Is he any relation to Abby Normal, from Franhkensteen’s basement? They look like they might be cousins or something.

I want to say something clever here, but all I can think of right now is Peter Boyle belting out, “Puttin’ on da riiiiiitz!!”

Merrymarg, Quasimodo is the bell ringer of Notre-Dame. You’re thinking of Victor Frankenstein’s aide Igor.

SherlockWatson: I had Young Frankenstein on my mind too. And now you’ve inspired me to pull out that DVD again…;)

Mark: You remind me of what I love about being able to read cartoons on the Internet, having been a cartoon fan for thirty years or so…I’m 39; I started young with an enduring love of “Peanuts.” :) Here on the ‘Net, I can actually communicate with the people who write and draw my favorite cartoons! And both Lio and Heart of the City have turned into two of my favorites - thank you so much for that!

39? 39? I have a motorcycle older than that!

Stick around, U… He’ll catch up (but by that time, we’ll be starting over!)

Thank you, Mark! Now it’s time for some Frau Blucher; “WHINNY!”

“Walk this way. No! THIS Way!” hehe i already DO.

wow, yeah, thanks Mark! great stuff.

i’m 39 too someone has a motorcycle older than me? American or European? the bike nt the person LOL

I wish I could have had a bike with a skull ornament when I was a kid!

I thought the guy was “Eye”-gor—–I’m not sure why–Call it a hunch!—–rim shot