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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 ...
>
> 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!
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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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