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March 19, 2011 4:11 PM Subscribe
Francesco Marciuliano (writer of the comic strip Sally Forth) presents The Catalog of Unfit Toys, mixed in among many other random amusements and strange humor at the blog for his webcomic Medium Large (oh yeah, and there's a cat: cat poetry, that is - parts 1, 2, 3).
Previously, 2009: Write Your Own Irish Memoir. Also previously, 2005: unfortunately dead link (replay at the Wayback Machine; possibly heavily updated as Comic Strip Writing 101).
Previously, 2009: Write Your Own Irish Memoir. Also previously, 2005: unfortunately dead link (replay at the Wayback Machine; possibly heavily updated as Comic Strip Writing 101).
Holy crap, for a guy who writes a comic that regularly fails to amuse, some of this stuff is pretty funny; some of the unpublished Seuss books, for instance (One Drink Two Drink Three Drink Floor), and this:
posted by Halloween Jack at 4:55 PM on March 19, 2011
Marciuliano occasionally riffs on Ted Forth on his blog: Ted Forth In His Own Words (Part The Final). Clearly, not canon.
posted by tommasz at 5:07 PM on March 19, 2011
posted by tommasz at 5:07 PM on March 19, 2011
This is the same guy (and blog) that brought us the totally viral "Cats Quote Charlie Sheen" (and more) (and almost too much) (and responses) (and the reverse). Probably the only ongoing Sheen-related nonsense I liked.
Also notable is his "The Day Penthouse Shot on Our Dinner Table: A Childhood Memory" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...
and deconstructing the oddest character in the comic strip he writes but did not create... "Ted Forth: In His Own Words" parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (explaining maybe why the day-job comic is not humorous enough - damn you tommasz, i was interrupted)
He has been blogging like a madman in the month since he drifted away from the parody-of-everything webcomic format, and it's almost all good, even the occasions when he returns to comic strip format.
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:28 PM on March 19, 2011
Also notable is his "The Day Penthouse Shot on Our Dinner Table: A Childhood Memory" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...
and deconstructing the oddest character in the comic strip he writes but did not create... "Ted Forth: In His Own Words" parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (explaining maybe why the day-job comic is not humorous enough - damn you tommasz, i was interrupted)
He has been blogging like a madman in the month since he drifted away from the parody-of-everything webcomic format, and it's almost all good, even the occasions when he returns to comic strip format.
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:28 PM on March 19, 2011
after you follow Marciuliano's blog/online strip long enough you start seeing Sally Forth in a different light. I still won't say I like it, but there are weird cues that you are more in tune with. And.. I suspect he is putting it through a sea change (in the original sense) and 5-10 years from now it'll be a lot different then, say, five years ago.
Marciuliano also shows up as a commentator at the oft referenced Comics Curmudgeon from time to time as well.
(ps. thank infini for auto spell checker on Saturday night)
posted by edgeways at 5:47 PM on March 19, 2011
Marciuliano also shows up as a commentator at the oft referenced Comics Curmudgeon from time to time as well.
(ps. thank infini for auto spell checker on Saturday night)
posted by edgeways at 5:47 PM on March 19, 2011
Oh man, I was psyched for the business meeting board game until I realized he was just funnin'
posted by Ad hominem at 6:23 PM on March 19, 2011
posted by Ad hominem at 6:23 PM on March 19, 2011
I remember Sally Forth, some time back (probably over ten years ago at least, which is when I last really read the comics section), as being a little better than the average newspaper comic. Not *much* better, but it had a little more wit than Blondie. It doesn't surprise me at all that its writer is able to be more generally funny.
posted by JHarris at 6:34 PM on March 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by JHarris at 6:34 PM on March 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
From Mr. Marcuiliano's original run of "Medium Large": The Many Moods of Sally Forth. (via Websnark, which still has a copy of it)
posted by Johnny Assay at 6:52 PM on March 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Johnny Assay at 6:52 PM on March 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
And.. I suspect he is putting it through a sea change (in the original sense) and 5-10 years from now it'll be a lot different then, say, five years ago.
If he was really working on a long-game subversion of a long-running comic strip, that would probably be the coolest thing in the history of newspaper comics since Windsor McKay died.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:56 PM on March 20, 2011
If he was really working on a long-game subversion of a long-running comic strip, that would probably be the coolest thing in the history of newspaper comics since Windsor McKay died.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:56 PM on March 20, 2011
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