The basic idea of this gag a day strip was always better than the actual gags, but you have to admire FRank O'Neal's cartooning abiillities.
Showing posts with label Short Ribs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Short Ribs. Show all posts
Sunday, December 08, 2019
Short Presentation
Sunday Been Here Before Day.
The basic idea of this gag a day strip was always better than the actual gags, but you have to admire FRank O'Neal's cartooning abiillities.
The basic idea of this gag a day strip was always better than the actual gags, but you have to admire FRank O'Neal's cartooning abiillities.
Thursday, July 06, 2017
Short Stack
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
I promised y'all some Short Ribs in color, so here tehy are. I like the style better than the jokes, but there you go. It's completely different from O'Neal's earlier cartoon style. Have a look at that jester joke - isn't that HAHA panel wonderful? So simple and it tells so much. All I have left now are some later Sundays by Frank Hill, who took over the strip from O'Neal.
I promised y'all some Short Ribs in color, so here tehy are. I like the style better than the jokes, but there you go. It's completely different from O'Neal's earlier cartoon style. Have a look at that jester joke - isn't that HAHA panel wonderful? So simple and it tells so much. All I have left now are some later Sundays by Frank Hill, who took over the strip from O'Neal.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Laughing In Silence
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
When people talk about the importance of character over jokes, there are two samples in the comic strip world I always mention. One is the way Johnny Hart's BC slided from an excellent and very funny character based strip to a puns based vehicle, with interchangeable characters sitting behind a rock throwing one-liners at each other. On of the most galling was the bit where one of them throws a message on a stone into the see and waits until an answer returns, usually some sort of pun to the original question. The bit of the floating rock is funny the first time, but it gets boring soon enough and all you have left is a drawn out pun, not even worthy of a daily gag. The other example is the long running strip Short Ribs by Frank O'Neill. Instead of having one set of characters, he had several sets of not so very well defined characters with the jokes usually about the world they inhabited (cavemen, cowboys, knights, Russians). I really like the way it was drawn, but the jokes always held it down. But I keep trying. Here is a whole load of dailies from various periods and I have a whole stack full of Sundays waiting to be scanned upstairs.
When people talk about the importance of character over jokes, there are two samples in the comic strip world I always mention. One is the way Johnny Hart's BC slided from an excellent and very funny character based strip to a puns based vehicle, with interchangeable characters sitting behind a rock throwing one-liners at each other. On of the most galling was the bit where one of them throws a message on a stone into the see and waits until an answer returns, usually some sort of pun to the original question. The bit of the floating rock is funny the first time, but it gets boring soon enough and all you have left is a drawn out pun, not even worthy of a daily gag. The other example is the long running strip Short Ribs by Frank O'Neill. Instead of having one set of characters, he had several sets of not so very well defined characters with the jokes usually about the world they inhabited (cavemen, cowboys, knights, Russians). I really like the way it was drawn, but the jokes always held it down. But I keep trying. Here is a whole load of dailies from various periods and I have a whole stack full of Sundays waiting to be scanned upstairs.
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