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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: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:01:04 +1300

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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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> Doctor Fun is on break until December 8. Here's some stuff to
> help you cope.
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< November 18 - There will be a two-week break, from November 24
< through December 5. As usual, I'll have some old crud I
< scanned up for you to look at, but not as much as usual, we're
< all through the zillion cartoons from 1988-1989, and I have to
< ration out the rest. There will also be a two-week break at
< Christmas. And I moved the old news section to a separate page
< in order to speed up the loading of this page.
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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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