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From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell)
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Subject: Re: Whose your favorite cartoonist/humorist/satirist ?
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Date: Fri, 4-May-84 15:21:31 EDT
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B. Kliban, bar none.  I remember seeing an article on him in
"Rolling Stone" about 6 years ago.  Accompanying the article
was a large reproduction of a cartoon entitled "Dirty Fat Person
Sits on the President's Face," which depicted one doing just
that, and I laughed so hard and long that I was literally in
pain.  His "Cat" is a modern cartoon classic as well. A close
second is Bobby London, for his "Dirty Duck" series, which is
an altogether different sort of humor.

Humorist? I'd have to vote for Chris Miller, for his "National
Lampoon" stories from the '70's, like "Sensorama X."  I sort
of outgrew the mag some years back, but I remember Miller's
work well.

I'll get flames on this one, but my favorite satirist is Frank Zappa,
or at least he was.  Zappa liked to poke fun at everything from
our established institutions ("I'm the Slime") to nearly every
element of our culture, counter- or otherwise.  I especially liked
his anti-disco stuff ("Disco Boy," "Dancin' Fool") and his piece
on mystics (e.g., the Maharishi [anybody remember him?]), "Cosmic
Debris."
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                               Bob Fishell
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