Sorry I don’t have a higher resolution version of this. It’s my favorite Kliban cartoon.

  • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    Generals gathered in their masses

    Poisoning the brainwashed masses

    Evil minds that fight with babies

    Sorcerer of dark brain rabies

  • dangblingus@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    Never heard of Kliban. Noticed his work looks a lot like The Far Side. Looked up on wikipedia, Gary Larson’s main inspiration is Kliban. Crazy.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      Kliban was an absolute genius. I have every collection available of his comics, but there are tons that were never collected. The only place I’ve found them being archived is a Facebook group.

  • quaddo@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    I used to be a huge Kliban fan back in the day. I’ve still got various t-shirts with his art on them.

    From memory:

    • a cat wearing a Japanese headscarf presenting (/selling?) sushi
    • 2 karate cats getting into it; one has the other by the tail
    • a cat dressed as a sumo wrestler
    • a cat playing the guitar and singing the blues: “Love to eat them mousies / Mousies what I love to eat / Bite they little heads off / Nibble on they tiny feet”

    That last one is one of my all time faves. I would “sing” it to my friends whenever someone commented on my shirt, complete with the standard blues riff.

    Another random one (not a t-shirt): 2 cats, one says “Mao”, the other points and says “Mousie dung”. It was a very oblique, random and context-free reference to Mao Zedong. So random, I think the only point of it was to illustrate the pun. If there was a clever political reference, it was lost on me.