Comments on: Hilarity in Black and White

Hilarity in Black and White

Dukebloo — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:35:10 -0800

Can someone syndicate this man? Cartoons on the back of business cards. Beats the lame ones you often find in say, The New Yorker. Courtesy of Capital Influx.

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:49:41 -0800

His musings are as entertaining as his doodlings. Good stuff.

By: monkeymike

monkeymike — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:52:07 -0800

[this is good]

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:12:06 -0800

*remembers that stuff like this is why he comes to Metafilter in the first place* *get's a little sniffily*

By: bitdamaged

bitdamaged — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:13:26 -0800

freaking awesome I'd love to meet this guy.

By: skimble

skimble — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:16:50 -0800

I would think you wouldn't want to admit out loud you're not all grown-up enough to appreciate the New Yorker.

By: Dukebloo

Dukebloo — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:26:37 -0800

I subscribed to and read the New Yorker religiously for over six years and cancelled it two years ago in favor of the good, refreshing stuff I see on the internet. While the magazine does have some fine writing and cartoons, it is just not that vital anymore, just a golden cog in the machinery of hype and drivel.

By: Reggie452

Reggie452 — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:35:59 -0800

Excellent post. I thank you, while my employer curses the day you were ever born.

By: jonson

jonson — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:37:34 -0800

This is indeed the kind of stuff I come to metafilter for, and it's a good post, but I have to say, I'd be more amused by a random New Yorker cartoon than I was by any of these... maybe I'm just old school. Test that theory here, at the New Yorker's online cartoon database. Specifically, from the latest issue, this one cracked me up.

By: picea

picea — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:40:23 -0800

Wow, this guy is a master scribbler. I aspire to reach his level of controlled messiness. I didn't find the comics too funny, however. They kind of distracted from the crazy masses of lines.

By: Hall

Hall — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:42:10 -0800

This is awesome. Nice!

By: G_Ask

G_Ask — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:45:22 -0800

thanks dukebloo. Many gems there. was anyone able to get to work?

By: G_Ask

G_Ask — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:46:34 -0800

should've read, "was anyone able to get www.mrhell.com to work?" ugh

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:49:44 -0800

the New Yorker's online cartoon database. Specifically, from the latest issue, this one cracked me up. So...very...dry... Cartoons on the back of business cards. So...very...bitter...

By: Frank Grimes

Frank Grimes — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:03:13 -0800

What crunchland said. McLeod's visuals are very cool (I would love to see the margins of his notes from high school), but as cartoons, they are more pessimistic than humorous. It seems that McLeod is successful (head writer for a children's cartoon), but I guess he has to retain a tough New York edge to remain an true artist. I wonder what Hugh McLeod's caption would be for the New Yorker cartoon caption contest. It would have a f-bomb in it, no doubt.

By: jacknose

jacknose — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:16:35 -0800

Gorgeous post. Thanks.

By: tangent

tangent — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:35:59 -0800

this is excellent! kinda reminds me of this guy.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:36:10 -0800

Jonson: "...here..." Haw, I say, a haw, haw, haw. Verily. That doth crack one up indeed, a-haw, a-haw, a-haw.

By: krunk

krunk — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:42:04 -0800

reminds me of explodingdog, both in its art, and its ability to stock me with ICQ N/A messages for the next decade.

By: chr1sb0y

chr1sb0y — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:55:21 -0800

i've been a subscriber to the new yorker for about 12 years now, and reading it since i was about 7 (well, just for the cartoons for the first few years, and back then i didn't really get too many of them) and i have to say that i've never seen a weaker batch of cartoons than appeared in the latest "cartoon issue" (2-3 weeks ago). bleh.

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:41:48 -0800

Makes me wish I kept more of my post-it doodles.

By: fungible

fungible — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:07:44 -0800

Anyone notice how the last ones he did are right before 9/11/01? I wonder why....

By: dabitch

dabitch — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:59:44 -0800

did you see this one? [second from top]

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:18:45 -0800

Anyone else getting scrambled images from this site? Especially in the oldest groups of sketches...

By: strangechord

strangechord — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:15:26 -0800

Actually, his stuff reminds me a bit of Ashleigh Brilliant.

By: elbie

elbie — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 07:04:44 -0800

If you read his about page, part of why he chose to put this stuff on the website like this was to avoid "having the middlemen (publishers, galleries etc.) getting in the way". Maybe he doesn't care for syndication.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 21:54:56 -0800

Great stuff. Thanks.