11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Among the best, February 15, 2009
This review is from: The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out (Hardcover)
Adam Koford has created a cartoon universe that is at once a clear and beautiful homage to the best of early and mid-century American cartoonery (Herriman, Kelly, Sterrett) and Internet meme-ry come to life. The drawings are sublime, the characters are lovable and memorable, and the jokes are drawn from within the ongoing and fascinating public exploration of creating shared meaning from new technologies. Ridiculously current within a context that is readily recognizable to any lover of vintage comics, Adam can make a joke in one panel about Ted Stevens's "series of tubes," and in another do an homage to the creator of Popeye.
John Hodgman's introduction is delightful as well. I learned of the 700 Hoboes project from reading Hodgman's blog, and found that, as the collection of hobo depictions grew, I was consistently drawn to certain images, all of them in different styles, and - as I was stunned to realize - all of them done by the same artist. As stunned as everyone else watching this phenomenon, I saw Adam complete a drawing for each of the 700 - no, 800 - hoboes, and then saw more at his flickr site and his blog. When Adam debuted his Laugh-Out-Loud Cats, I was thrilled from the first panel, as were many, many others. Boing Boing and Neatorama linked to them, and Cute Overload too - not too many instances of the extremely hip meeting the extremely cute in the world of comics!
Having purchased some original artwork and joined the Pip fan club, I've been honored to support Adam in his work with my few measly bucks, and now I am ecstatic to hold my copy of this lovely book. Have I mentioned that I think you should buy one too? (Or more than one - it makes a great gift!)
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderfully funny - like a book full of inside jokes, March 24, 2009
This review is from: The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out (Hardcover)
Adam Koford is a great illustrator and a comic genius. If you laugh at internet memes such as the "LOLCats", you cannot help but love this book. The comics are wonderfully drawn, and the humor is just...well, it's great. I actually did laugh out loud while reading this book.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic, June 5, 2011
This review is from: The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out (Hardcover)
This book is highly enjoyable. The humor is many levels deep on quite a few of them. Meshing a classic idiom (cartoon hobo cats) with the "post-2005ish LOL cat speak" this well can't have been easy. I think that a lot of these jokes would be enjoyable just at their face value: Two silly cats getting into trouble, stealing fish and the like. But if you hang around the internet as much as I do, there are one maybe two more levels of incredibly clever humor going on here.
This is a very timely work. I just wonder how well it will age. There is certainly a lot to "get" and therefor a lot to NOT "get" if you don't know the lingo. If you blog, tweet, code and/or enjoy sharing internet memes like I do, you'll get the jokes and appreciate the clever double entendres. 20 years from now, I wonder if we'll remember what all this silliness means. Who knows. At that time, this could be a rare time capsule, in print, of an entire era and subculture which has been otherwise forgotten by a fast-changing zeitgeist.
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