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  • From: Jonathan Ah Kit <ahkitj AT greta.electric.gen.nz>
  • To: Doctor Fun website changes list <dr-fun-changes AT lists.electric.gen.nz>
  • Subject: [dr-fun-changes] http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/books.htm has changed.
  • Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:01:08 +1300

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> November 23, 2003 - Doctor Fun is on a two-week break. (HEY
> THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME BLURB THAT'S ON THE MAIN PAGE SO IF
> YOU READ THAT ALREADY JUST SKIP IT.) But you already knew that
> because you read the text in bold up there, and you read the
> announcement last week, because you're always checking the
> Doctor Fun page to see what's up, right? And now, instead of
> crappy old cartoons from 1989, I've got crappy old cartoons
> from 1990 for you to stare at. You might notice a radical
> change in format. What happened between 1989 and 1990? Two
> things - I was mostly concentrating on selling to magazines,
> and it was hard to show editors what the nice washes I used
> looked like without sending them the originals, which they
> mostly didn't want the responsibility for handling, and which
> I mostly didn't want to send them. So I switched to all black
> and white pen and ink. The first year of this change wasn't
> particularly good, but at the time I was trying to sell
> cartoons, and I was selling more cartoons than I'd ever had
> before, so it looked like a good move. I had also started
> fooling around with computers and scanners about this time,
> and the only scanning I could afford to do was black and white
> only, so that was the second, and not as important reason for
> the switch, since computers and cartoons didn't turn into much
> of anything interesting for another couple years. 1990 was a
> pretty busy year for reasons other than cartoons (among other
> things, I moved from New York to Chicago). From here on out
> there aren't as many cartoons from year-to-year leading up to
> when Doctor Fun started in 1993, and many of the cartoons from
> now to then were used as material for early Doctor Funs until
> I decided to stop recycling old stuff (in anticipation of
> doing this very thing). There are 100 on them in this round,
> and they start here. Some of these jokes are extremely dated,
> particularly the one about Spy Magazine (one of my customers
> until they folded). There are a couple funny ones - you'll
> have to find them yourself. Enjoy, and Happy Thanksgiving.
> _________________________________________________________
>




  • [dr-fun-changes] http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/books.htm has changed., Jonathan Ah Kit, 11/25/2003

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