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Tiny Footprints

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As of this writing, Tiny Footprints is almost
thirty years old. Most comics don't stay funny
for more than a few years. Indeed most comedy
tends to wither with age.
There are some other exceptions: Cervantes is
still a hoot, the Mark Brothers are perhaps
eternal and then there's Kliban. Part of his
appeal is that the things he draws about are eternal:
The man with his brains falling out at the sight
of a sexy woman, the naked man fishing on the
opposite bank of the river from the naked woman,
the intellectuals staring at the tough guys.
But other things, like the fellow kneeling at
the mouse hole with two slices of bread or the
plucked ducks watching Icarus take off are
evidence of a sensibility that's just this side of
mad. That's mad as in whacky, crazy, lunatic.

So if this book hits sixty, I predict that the cartoon
of the emaciated couple admiring the contents of
their stuffed refrigerator will still make people
spit up milk through their twenty-first century noses.


--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and
the novel bang BANG. ISBN 9781601640005

Burt Kliban is one of the unsung heroes of modern cartooning. 'The Far Side' and dozens of similar strips are pale imitations of this. A great sense of line and shade, wicked humour and wonderful strangeness make this unmissable. Buy it NOW!