Bizarro is brought to you by Animal Planet.This simple but highly effective pun came from the nobby noggin of my good friend, Cliff, a former pediatrician who now teaches Stanford med students how to intimidate children into remaining still while a stranger jabs them with a long needle.
Cliff is a funny guy with an unusual ability with language. He and I have been collaborating on a sort of comic book written in puzzle form. Cliff writes the puzzles, I do the drawings. It's a metric buttload of work and unless it sells a frillion copies I'll never see much money from it. But such is a life in the arts.
Once published, I am hoping each of my three fans will buy a third of a frillion copies so Cliff and I can eventually be paid for our time. Thank you in advance for your help.
Here is a sneak peak at an illustration from the book, with the puzzle removed. We don't want anyone stealing our mojo. To enlarge it, click the thumb of the cowboy at left.
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I like the illustration style in the comic for the new book. I'd imagine it's a relief to switch styles sometimes.
Planet of the apes star wars? If it weren't so small, I'd have a new desktop wallpaper.
Is it just a coincidence that the ape on the bus stop bench is across the way from Randy's Donuts, or did you pick that picture just for that reason?
Get yer paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
"Catch the game last night?"
Now THAT is a classic! [Or will become one...]
This past weekend I had to put my faculty regalia on and march in two graduation ceremonies. We, the faculty, walk in after the students and I was envisioning how much more enjoyable to all it would have been if we came in dressed as apes from the "Planet of the Apes" and were going "oh uh ah ah" as we marched.
Puzzle book sounds interesting. I may just have to buy...
Wait... how many zeros in a frillion, again?
Note that the shop with the large doughnut on top appears again in the photo from the "Animal Planet" link in this blog. It is above the bike rider on the right. Must be some kind of subliminal advertising for the earlier doughnut shop joke.
Randy's Donuts in the background is coincidental. This b/w photo of the bus stop was taken by a guy who was around during the filming of the original and took a lot of behind-the-scenes pics. Just found it randomly on the Interwebs. Apparently, he had a show of these photos in Paris at some point.
hahahahaha
Missing Caption:
Waiter: Your usually pickled spinach?
Sailor: And a beer for this hangover!
Can I get the book on tape?
U sir, are genius!! Your comic and Tundra give the most reliable humor of all the comics in our local paper... Thank You Evermore!
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