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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/ has changed.
  • Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:01:05 +1300

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< Doctor Fun is on break until December 8. Here's some stuff to
< help you cope.
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> The Latest Doctor Fun Cartoon
> This Week's Doctor Fun Cartoons, A Larger Version of the
> Latest Doctor Fun Logo
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< November 23 - Doctor Fun is on a two-week break. 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.
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> December 8 - we're back. No time to fix the logo yet, though.
> There is a good chance there will be an extended break
> starting Christmas week. I have been working on Doctor Fun
> week-by-week instead of working ahead a couple weeks. While
> this kind of working on a deadline is fun for awhile, it gets
> tedious, and tedious equals bad cartoons. I will probably take
> the month of January to work ahead so I'm a couple weeks out
> starting again February, which will be good for all involved.
> For those late to the party, Doctor Fun stops when the archive
> counter gets up to 520 weeks, meaning ten full years. It
> doesn't matter how many actual years it takes to get there.
> We're now at week 433, so it will be awhile yet, but not
> forever.





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