YOU ALL ALREADY KNOW THAT THIS is the most important new daily comic strip since “LONELY BOY AND IMAGINARY TIGER.”
BUT IT STRUCK ME today that Koford’s “Laugh-Out-Loud Cats” is not just a daily comic, but specifically A SINGLE PANEL daily comic.
AND MORE SPECIFICALLY AND STRANGELY: a good one.
THIS, MY FRIENDS, is a bold innovation. Has Ape-Lad broken curse of PLUGGERS?*
(ONE MIGHT HAVE SAID the “Curse of Ziggy” or “Curse of Howard Huge,” but that would be mean.)
(OR: ONE MIGHT HAVE SAID the “Curse of the Lockhorns.” But I actually admire the sheer, misanthropic brio of those Lockhorns.)
(After all, it can’t be easy to distill all the drunken, marital loathing of WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and pour it all into a single, hate-filled funny pages panel day after day after day.
YOU ALL ALREADY KNOW THAT THIS is the most important new daily comic strip since “LONELY BOY AND IMAGINARY TIGER.”
BUT IT STRUCK ME today that Koford’s “Laugh-Out-Loud Cats” is not just a daily comic, but specifically A SINGLE PANEL daily comic.
AND MORE SPECIFICALLY AND STRANGELY: a good one.
THIS, MY FRIENDS, is a bold innovation. Has Ape-Lad broken curse of PLUGGERS?*
(ONE MIGHT HAVE SAID the “Curse of Ziggy” or “Curse of Howard Huge,” but that would be mean.)
(OR: ONE MIGHT HAVE SAID the “Curse of the Lockhorns.” But I actually admire the sheer, misanthropic brio of those Lockhorns.)
(After all, it can’t be easy to distill all the drunken, marital loathing of WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and pour it all into a single, hate-filled funny pages panel day after day after day.
HERE
is Dutton, publishers of Ken Follett and Darin Strauss
HERE
is Riverhead, publishers of David Rees and The Rza
1969, DALLAS, TX: The first ATM machine is installed. Standing for “AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE MACHINE,” the first ATM could receive deposits and dispense cash (though only in coins) and was roughly the size of a city block. Despite its name, it was not wholly automated: A single human controller was required to supervise and make manual notations in the customer’s bankbook. He would sit in a little dome atop the machine. However, this bank employee was instructed to wear a tinfoil suit and talk like a machine so as not to ruin the futuristic effect. — SEPTEMBER 2
