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  • Subject: [dr-fun-changes] http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/books.htm has changed.
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< Home, Archive, The ibiblio Home Page
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< Doctor Fun presents ...
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< Whenever I take a break from updating Doctor Fun, I try to
< make up for it by uploading some of my older pre-Doctor Fun
< cartoons, all scanned from pen and paper. All of this stuff
< was drawn long before the Internet, Photoshop, and all that. I
< only add new material to this page when I take breaks, but I
< plan to be a lazyass and take lots of breaks, so everybody
< wins.
<
< Most of what I've put here so far has been collections of
< cartoons I drew in the mid-80s, all on some theme that
< happened to grab me at the time. Some of these themes still
< grab me. A few of these cartoons even reappeared as Doctor
< Funs.
<
< Ironically, the only one of these theme collections that was
< accepted for publication (by [DEL: Simon & Schuster :DEL] A
< Famous Publisher) can't be put online here because of legal
< problems. The problems were not with The Famous Publisher but
< because of the inability to ultimately come to terms with the
< trademark owner of [DEL: Mister Potato Head :DEL] The Topic.
< Oh well. All this excitement for what turned out to be nothing
< happened years ago. Lucky for me I had a temp job.
<
< In addition to the theme cartoons, there are plenty of random
< old cartoons. Some of these have aged better than others.
< Eventually, it will all be here.
<
< And sometimes I actually draw all-new stuff that doesn't fit
< with the "regular" Doctor Fun, so I put it here. You win
< either way!
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< March 22, 2004 - Ta-daa! Here's 100 more cartoons from 1990!
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< January 4, 2004 - Here's 50 more cartoons from 1990!
<
< December 20, 2003 - How about even more old cartoons from
< 1990? Here's some now, and some more later, as the long break
< continues.
<
< 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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< September 7, 2003, this finishes it up for 1988-89. There are
< a couple cartoons that aren't particularly funny anymore, but
< I left them all in since this was more than ten years ago, and
< not presented as something brand new. These cartoons aren't in
< order that they were drawn. The ones with the pencil borders
< around the edges are the earliest ones. You'll notice a trend
< towards a single topic in the last two pages - those were
< drawn for some special project. There is one in there I don't
< understand at all - even a Google search didn't help. I'll let
< you figure out which one it is.
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< May 19, 2003, why are you not surprised to find 100 more
< scanned cartoons from 1988-89.
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< (Because of some problems on ibiblio, Doctor Fun was partially
< offline the week of May 12 - the cartoons intended for that
< break are being run this week, May 19.)
<
< May 5, 2003, here are 100 more scanned cartoons from 1988-89.
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< Doctor Fun's Peep-O-Rama 2003
<
< Doctor Fun's Peep-o-Rama 2003 is just like Doctor Fun's
< Peep-o-Rama 2002, except it's different cartoons. It's about
< Peeps. (Three pages.)
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< Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus 2001
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< December, 2002 - Hooray! Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus 2002 is
< here! 41 more lame, sloppily-drawn "holiday" themed cartoons.
< If that's not enough, here's Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus
< 2001.
<
< And now there's more - how about some color cartoons from
< 1988? There are only 40 of them. I seem to recall that all the
< work that went into these didn't result in much, mostly
< because of a lack of any good way to make copies of them at
< the time. These were drawn like the black and white cartoons
< I've been uploading, but colored in with pencils instead of
< wash. And don't worry, there are still plenty more black and
< white cartoons from 1988-89 to slog through before we're done.
< I'm really doing all this backwards. At some point I have to
< scan all the stuff from back then that actually got into
< print, so I can prove I used to be a real cartoonist.
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< November, 2002 - The next-to-newest thing here is 300 more
< cartoons from 1988. On the off chance that you are wondering
< why there are so many old cartoons from 1988, they are really
< from 1988 to 1989 because my record-keeping maybe wasn't so
< good. And they are in no particular order. My opinion would be
< that the funnier and better-drawn ones came later, over the
< years they got more and more mixed up, so this is what I had
< when I started scanning. (All of this stuff is already scanned
< - I'm just sitting on it to use it when I take breaks.) I
< lived in New York from 1985 to 1989, which explains some of
< the themes and the building in the background, including the
< World Trade Center (so I slipped it into the logo). If you
< want to see them all, start here.
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< Doctor Fun's Peep-O-Rama
<
< Gather 'round kids, it's time to for Doctor Fun's Peep-O-Rama,
< 30 more thoughtlessly written and hastily drawn cartoons about
< Peeps that didn't make the cut as "real" Doctor Fun cartoons.
< Don't read too many at once, you'll get sick. (Three pages.)
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< Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus 2001
<
< It's Doctor Fun's Big Fat Christmas Bonus. These are a bunch
< of cartoons I sketched but didn't use as "real" Doctor Fun
< cartoons for 2001. I had a lot of sketches left over, so I
< decided to quickly draw some of them in a slovely and
< thoughtless manner and try to pass it off as my Christmas Gift
< to You.
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< 1987
<
< Here are most of the loose cartoons I have lying around from
< 1987. There is no theme to this set of cartoons, but there are
< a lot of them. Many of them aren't even funny. I leave it as
< an exercise for you to decide which ones are funny and which
< ones aren't. Why 1987? Most of the extra stuff I've put online
< already is from 1987. Going back through the old cartoons,
< 1987 is the first year where the drawings and the jokes seem
< to hit more than they miss. Unlike the cartoons from 1988-89,
< which I seem to have neglected to put dates on, so there's a
< huge honking pile of them to wade through, I actually know
< which ones I drew in 1987. If there had been an Internet and a
< Doctor Fun back in 1987, this is what you would have got.
<
< Some of these cartoons weren't, er, "drawn good" to begin
< with, and scanning could only fix them up a little. The
< cartoons with the blobby dark parts are that way because
< that's how I drew them. Who knows? At the time I lived in a
< basement apartment in Queens, NYC, with 10-watt bulbs in all
< the lamps.
<
< (In case you start reading and wonder where it all ends, 1987
< goes on for 35 pages - 351 cartoons.)
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< Blobs
<
< If you happen to be looking for a collection of cartoons
< mostly about amoebas, then Blobs may be the place for you.
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< Boogers, A Celebration is a collection of hand-picked cartoons
< on a certain subject. Only the most assiduous digging has
< pulled out these treasures.
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< The Eyes Have It
<
< The Eyes Have It is mostly about gigantic eyeballs, with some
< other random eye jokes. (I'm extremely nearsighted, and spent
< a lot of time at the eye doctor when I was young.)
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< Heads Up
<
< Heads Up is in two sections, the first section features the
< madcap antics of decapitated heads floating about in jars; the
< second section features people who have managed to somehow
< grow more than one head, and the shenanigans that ensue.
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< The Iceman Cometh
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< The Iceman Cometh is about snowmen.
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< Science Fair
<
< Science Fair was actually drawn a couple years before all the
< other stuff here. Science Fair documents a visit to the
< so-called Hoagiesville Science and Engineering Fair, with
< exhibits in different age divisions, prizes, handouts, etc.
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< Doctor Fun's Grab Bag
<
< If that's not enough, several years ago I uploaded about 200
< old scanned cartoons and called it Doctor Fun's Grab Bag. The
< format is a bit low-rent, even compared to my other minimalist
< efforts, but you are clicking on it. Clicking. Clicking.
< Click.
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