everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too

[boxofdelights]

everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too by Jomny Sun

These cartoons are simple, sweet, and a little aliebn. Sometimes simple is perfect. Sometimes, when the perspective is a little aliebn, it works like binocular vision.

I enjoyed this book, but mostly it made me want to read my Pogo books, which one of my kids read to pieces. But Fantagraphics is having a back-to-school sale, so I just ordered volumes 1 & 2 of their complete Pogo.

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[jesse_the_k]

Oh, Pogo.

I would spend hours scrying each page at an age too early to understand most of the references. I should go back and re-appreciate them.

[boxofdelights]

That's what Simon did too! And me, and my dad, who was too Puerto Rican for a lot of the references.

http://www.fantagraphics.com/back-to-school-sale/

Fantagraphics has published five volumes of a planned twelve.

[jesse_the_k]

I think that Walt Kelly jump-started my fascination with calligraphy. His line work was so beautiful. When I couldn't parse that he was mocking Yellow-dog Southern Democrats, I could appreciate how he played around with different alphabets for different speakers.

[bibliofile]

Yay, Pogo!

I've seen the aliebn book around, online, but I hadn't picked it up yet. I'm more likely to now, I think.