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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: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:01:10 +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.
---
> November 23, 2003 - How about some cartoons from 1990 for a
> change? 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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