Tuesday 12 August 2008

Kliban

The cartoonist B. Kliban died on this day in 1990. His work was hit and miss, but when it hit there was, as this site attests, a touch of genius (and if you think it all looks familiar, remember he was doing it years before Larson). One of my Kliban favourites - I don't know if it's in this lot - shows a long-bearded cartoon old man standing outside a clapboard house, looking vaguely stricken and saying something. Caption: 'It Was Hell, recalls former child.'

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  1. Now this is sublime. Truly sublime.

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  2. Nige, i often think that you are a cartoonist, or an illustrator. Will we ever find out?

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  3. No Susan not that - tho in my dream life I would be, among other things...

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