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Title: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: Manedwolf on September 22, 2007, 09:11:23 PM
This person knows the style conventions of the 1920's hobo comics in the papers...and applied it to the LOLcats meme craze of the past couple of years.

You really need to be familiar with those, but...if you are...ha!







For many more:

http://flickr.com/photos/apelad/sets/72157600296941365/
Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: S. Williamson on September 22, 2007, 09:56:42 PM
For the uninformed...





There are dozens of these.  smiley
Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: bedlamite on September 23, 2007, 12:44:56 AM
For the uninformed...
There are thousands of these.  smiley

FTFY

Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: SkunkApe on September 23, 2007, 12:49:04 AM
Dozens?  Hundreds, at least.  More:









Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: Manedwolf on September 23, 2007, 09:02:10 AM
More on that...this guy is an AMAZING cartoonist! Compare this...this total retro 1920's-like work to the crap in the daily papers...



George Harriman would be proud.
Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 23, 2007, 09:06:40 AM
Brilliant? 
Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: Manedwolf on September 23, 2007, 12:59:10 PM
Brilliant? 

Don't worry about it. Smiley If it's not your culture, it's probably not funny. It's a web-culture thing, just like enthusiasts for cars, guns, or any sort of sports have their own in-jokes.

Ya either get it or you don't.  grin
Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 23, 2007, 01:25:09 PM
Actually, I do get it.  I just didn't laugh.  But I wasn't asking if it was funny, I asked what was brilliant about it.
Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: Manedwolf on September 23, 2007, 01:40:34 PM
Look at the art style and the attention to period detail, even period situations. That level of "nostalgia of something that never existed" is a unique art, to me.


Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: SkunkApe on September 23, 2007, 02:46:26 PM
I laughed.


Not me:

Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: Mabs2 on September 23, 2007, 04:59:26 PM
Habeeb it!
Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: grampster on September 23, 2007, 06:40:30 PM
Heh, when I was a kid, most of the cartoons were still like that.  Alley Oop was one I liked, especially.  Katzenjammer Kids was a good one too.  There were others;  I can see them in the movie running in my head, but I don't remember the names of them.
Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: Manedwolf on September 23, 2007, 07:11:19 PM
Habeeb it!

TWINKIE HOUSE!
Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: AJ Dual on September 24, 2007, 06:02:24 AM
It does display a certain kind of genius.

However, I wonder if art/humor can become so derivative that it folds in on itself it becomes a meme-singularity and disappears from the collective consciousness and it's gradient gets so deep not even Carrot Top can escape it?
Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: Mabs2 on September 24, 2007, 02:58:14 PM
OH SHI-
Title: Re: Absolutely brilliant web-meme parody comic...
Post by: SkunkApe on September 24, 2007, 04:12:49 PM
It does display a certain kind of genius.

However, I wonder if art/humor can become so derivative that it folds in on itself it becomes a meme-singularity and disappears from the collective consciousness and it's gradient gets so deep not even Carrot Top can escape it?

I was thinking the exact same thing!