No, really, it’s funny. I swear.
In an old photo album, amongst images of 16-year old Chris, and his various journeys around the world, there is a comic strip. It has clearly been torn out of the colour Sunday comics and pasted into the book.
For the last sixteen years or so, this has been the reigning champion in my personal list of best single comic strips.
It’s not any strip you’d expect: not Bloom County, not Calvin & Hobbes, or The Far Side, or Dilbert back when it was funny, or anything like that.
It’s a Wizard of Id strip.
I know.
I know.
Maybe it is the only one, but this one is funny. I’m telling you, it’s hilarious. At least, I think it’s hilarious, and I know comedy.
Since something else today got me thinking about this strip, I dug it out and scanned it so I could share it with you. Here you go:
Sigh. Good ol’ Bung.
George
Kira
April 18th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
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July 25th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
[...] Here are two of my favourites from back in the day–these are ones I cut out of the paper and kept pinned to the wall, along with the one funny Wizard of Id strip. [...]