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One of my favorite Mad bits ever.

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[–] ripcord@kbin.social 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This reminds me so much of that time the newspaper accidentally switched the captions between Dennis the Menace and the Far Side

Edit:. For those who haven't seen it. The second one, though both are great

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Clearly Gary Larson’s skill transcends his on comics and has the power to make Dennis the Menace funny.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

And they said that it couldn't be done!

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Al Jaffee was an absolute genius.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

One for the ages for sure!

[–] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah, although wow did it go downhill starting in the 90s.

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

around about 1980 i couldn't walk past a book store without scouring it for anything written by those guys, and of course the latest issue of the magazine itself.. but i also had a bunch of books that were collections of Don Adams, Dick DeBartolo, and Al Jaffee's stuff, i couldn't get enough..

[–] Superfool@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Yep. We have ours and you have yours.

[–] RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you like these check out Dysfunctional Family Circus.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you love DFC, make sure to check out Garfield Minus Garfield!

[–] RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I do love me some Garfield Minus Garfield!

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

That shit is hilarious

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really struggling to find an archive that's even semi-complete if not entirely missing

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It goes way back to the early web. Might have even been on Usenet before that. It's super old and multiple people have contributed (I remember they did a couple of mine on their site), so you'll never get it all.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I found plenty of archives talking about it and pointing to the same dead archive. Unfortunately. A lot of individual comics. More than anything else. A lot of copy cats doing their own thing with it... ah well

Bloom County round about 1987 or so released a collection that included a fake copy of the Bloom Picayune newspaper. In the comics section there was a Family Circus cartoon that showed little Billy holding a turtle and saying "Beanie's so old and smelly he reminds me of Grandma".