saint_monkey

all of these are stolen from metafilter, the birthplace of everything passed from journal to journal...

this page takes the punchlines of old public domain one-panel comics, and mixes and matches them with the drawings, hilarous results? not really, but it passes the time:

http://www.monochrom.at/erheiterer/process.shtml

i thought that this next one was really interesting, old historical anatomy texts scanned into the web... gruesome! no, wait! i mean... awesome!

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/browse.html

control a light show in dublin, or watch other people's efforts:

http://video4.alzado.net/edvideo.html

this morning, needing humor very badly, i was going to do an entry on those inane "Pissing Calvin" decals. You know the ones I mean, they feature an altered image from Watterson's wonderful Calvin and Hobbes. I was going to make the statement that these are particularly disgusting because Watterson never, ever allowed commercialization of his characters. He never sold stuffed Calvin dolls, or little stuffed Hobbses, although he could have made a fortune doing so.

"The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life. I don't want some animation studio giving Hobbes an actor's voice, and I don't want some greeting card company using Calvin to wish people a happy anniversary, and I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. When everything fun and magical is turned into something for sale, the strip's world is diminished. Calvin and Hobbes was designed to be a comic strip and that's all I want it to be. It's the one place where everything works the way I intend it to" -Bill Watterson

He also does not aggressively pursue amd prosecute his bootleggers, as does Disney and others. (I guarantee, just the use of "Disney" has flagged this page for investegation by the Walt Disney Secret Police, who by use of a large communications monitoring facility known as Eschelon, based out of RAF Lakenheath in England, patrol the web for just this type of internet infringement. I expect a cease and decist order in my inbox by the time i finish writing.) This has given rise to a sort of unholy zombielike resurrection and bastardization of Calvin and Hobbes. they are used to promote anyone's agenda, the tools required seem to be any old Calvin and Hobbes strip and photoshop, and then you can have Calvin peeing on whatever you like.

In any case, before beginning, I decided to perform an internet search to see if I was stomping anyone's buzz.

Of course I was. If you follow the link, it seems every columninst out there, legitiamate or simply your average blogger, has addressed the topic. Many made excellent points, and I see no need to revisit them. This one is interesting, in that it makes pretty much the points I was going to make myself, even ending with the same visual image of "Recursive Pissing Calvins" that I was going to do up in photoshop. So it simply saves me effort to say, visit the dern link and read it.

What was even more amusing, in my opinion, was the author's examination of his web demographics after posting that article, and his assumptions about his clientelle from this analysis. (It doesn't help that he has chosen the unfortunate name "Boooty Snaps" for his humor website. ) Those pages are here, and here.