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One of my favorite Mad bits ever.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

This reminds me so much of that time the newspaper accidentally switched the captions between Dennis the Menace and the Far Side

Edit:. For those who haven't seen it. The second one, though both are great

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Clearly Gary Larson’s skill transcends his on comics and has the power to make Dennis the Menace funny.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

And they said that it couldn't be done!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Al Jaffee was an absolute genius.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

One for the ages for sure!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah, although wow did it go downhill starting in the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

around about 1980 i couldn't walk past a book store without scouring it for anything written by those guys, and of course the latest issue of the magazine itself.. but i also had a bunch of books that were collections of Don Adams, Dick DeBartolo, and Al Jaffee's stuff, i couldn't get enough..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Yep. We have ours and you have yours.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Bloom County round about 1987 or so released a collection that included a fake copy of the Bloom Picayune newspaper. In the comics section there was a Family Circus cartoon that showed little Billy holding a turtle and saying "Beanie's so old and smelly he reminds me of Grandma".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

If you like these check out Dysfunctional Family Circus.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That shit is hilarious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Really struggling to find an archive that's even semi-complete if not entirely missing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It goes way back to the early web. Might have even been on Usenet before that. It's super old and multiple people have contributed (I remember they did a couple of mine on their site), so you'll never get it all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I found plenty of archives talking about it and pointing to the same dead archive. Unfortunately. A lot of individual comics. More than anything else. A lot of copy cats doing their own thing with it... ah well

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Eekum bokum