post only kafkaesque comics

>>88623545
so a Heathcliff thread?

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>>88623556
sounds okay, I already got the ham

>>88623545
That isn't a comic.

Someone needs to brush up on their McCloud.

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>>88623689
if the new yorker calls this a comic then cow tools is a comic too.

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>>88623599

>>88623545
Why is Larsen not given more credit on /co/? These are the first comics i fell in love with

>>88624230

There are a staggering amount of people that don't understand his humor and spam WHERES THE JOKE whenever someone starts dumping Far Side

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>>88623556

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>>88624230
many artists are never given enough credit around here

>>88623545
I remember this was Larsen's least favorite cartoon of all time. He wanted to "crawl under a rock and die" after it was published because it made no sense.

I can post is explanation of the cartoon if anyone's interested, btw

>>88623762
But I get this one. It actually made me chuckle a little.

>>88624347
I'd appreciate that--I /think/ I get it, but I'm not entirely positive haha

>>88624373 (1/2)
From "The Pre-History of the Far Side":

"The 'Cow tools' episode is one that will probably haunt me for the rest of my life. A week after it was published back in 1982, I wanted to crawl into a hole somewhere and die

'Cows, as some Far Side readers know, are a favorite subject of mine. I've always found them to be the quintessentially absurd animal for situations even more absurd. Even the name 'cow,' to me, is intrinsically funny.

"And so one day I started thinking back on an anthropology course I had in college and how we learned that man used to be defined as 'the only animal that made and shaped tools.' Unfortunately, researchers discovered that certain primates and even some bird species did the same thing -- so the definition had to be extended somewhat to avoid awkward situations such as someone hiring a crew of chimpanzees to remodel their kitchen.

"Inevitably, I began thinking about cows, and what if they, too were discovered as toolmakers. What would they make? Primitive tools are always, well, primitive-looking -- appearing rather nondescript to the lay person. So, it seemed to me, whatever a COW would make would have to be even a couple notches further down the 'skill-o-meter.'

"I imagined, and subsequently drew, a cow standing next to her workbench, proudly displaying her handiwork (hoofiwork?). The 'cow tools' were supposed to be just meaningless artifacts -- only the cow or cowthropologist is supposed to know what they're used for

>>88624270
I understand the jokes, but for me it suffers from what many funny pictures with words suffer. Redundant captions. Very simplistic jokes and sometimes jokes that aren't even jokes (as cow tools are)

>>88624336
That is a great comic and first time I've seen it.

Farside is so huge though, i would expect some love here

>>88624336
the bus is great

>>88624336
I'm not entirely sure what is happening here. Is he an actor who's playing a man on the bus in a theatre?

>>88624509 (2/2)

"The first mistake I made was in thinking this was funny. The second was in making one of the tools resemble a crude handsaw -- which made the already confused people decide their only hope in understanding the cartoon meant deciphering what the OTHER tools were as well. Of course, they didn't have a chance in hell.

"But, for the first time, 'Cow tools' awakened me to the fact that my profession was not just an isolated exercise in the corner of my apartment. The day after its release, my phone began to ring with inquiries from reporters and radio stations from regions in the country where The Far Side was published. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to know what in the world this cartoon MEANT! My syndicate was equally bombarded, and I was ultimately asked to write a press release explaining 'Cow tools.' Someone sent me the front page of one newspaper which, down in one corner, ran the tease, 'Cow Tools: What does it mean? (see page B14)' I was mortified.


"In the first year or two of drawing The Far Side, I always believed my career perpetually hung by a thread. And this time I was convinced it had finally been severed. Ironically, when the dust had finally settled and as a result of all the 'noise' it made, 'Cow tools' became more of a boost to The Far Side than anything else

"So, in summary, I drew a really weird, obtuse cartoon that no one understood and wasn't funny and therefore I went on to even greater success and recognition.

"Yeah, I like this country."

Global rule of being kafkaesque: if you can understand it, it's not kafkaesque.

Only post kafkaesque comics.

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>>88623545
Some other anon's fresh OC

>>88624639
Sorry for the long dump. I had to type and transcribe all that word for word out of a book. Hope that didn't take too long for you guys. Anyhow, hope the explanation helped.

The Far Side is really good though, in my personal opinion the best comic to ever grace newspaper funny pages. I'd say it's better than Calvin and Hobbes, though I know that's probably sacrilege around here. Anyway, I'd highly recommend everybody here check it out.

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>>88624336

If that's what we're aiming for, we should get some Quino up in this shit.

>>88624509
>>88624639
I always assumed he didn't think most of the stuff he did was funny or made sense. They are entertaining though

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>>88623545

>>88624714
Most of the stuff he does is funny and makes sense. People are just stupid for not getting it. This one though, this one really didn't make sense

>>88624629
He's a normal guy who steps off the bus, to find himself in a play. He looks behind to the bus he just stepped off, but it's a prop in the play.

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>>88624710
around february we had a bunch of Quino threads, it was glorious

>>88624782
It did in retrospect. Problem is, "Cows are dumb and their tools would be dumb too" only qualify as a joke in Larson's mind, and people were looking for a joke they missed.

>>88624730
Do people really not get "Sneed's Feed and Seed?"

If it's "Formerly Chucks," then to get the joke, just think of what "Feed" and "Seed" would sound like if you were to keep the first letters and make they rhyme with "Chuck" the way they already rhyme with "Sneed."

>>88624849
The joke isn't actually that funny, imo. He just thought it was.

His other stuff is terrific, though.

>>88624851

Yes, they do, but like everything else in that picture it still gets constantly posted by people who don't get it or are trolling.

>>88624793
>He's a normal guy who steps off the bus, to find himself in a play. He looks behind to the bus he just stepped off, but it's a prop in the play.

>kafkaesque: the word Kafkaesque is often applied to bizarre and impersonal administrative situations where the individual feels powerless to understand or control what is happening.

now that's kafkaesque!

>>88624832
Again, I get this one. It's actually pretty good. Does this not make sense to the rest of you guys?

It's a "square," "straight-edged" family, and the little boy is being scolded for drawing something that wasn't straight edged at all:

>>88624884
... oh. Ok then. So should I stop trying to explain the cartoons people "don't get?" Is it not actually helpful?

>>88624851
Don't start.

You're completely right though.

>>88624938

You'll catch a newbie that doesn't know every now and then, so keep doing it if you want to. I just wanted to point out "Sneed's Feed and Seed" is /co/mmon knowledge at this point.

>>88623925

Call me a unenlightened dweeb, but was there actually a joke to get here? I vaguely recall that episode had people repeatedly not getting it and I always thought that was the joke.

Otherwise I simply don't get it

>>88625087

There was a joke there.

It was PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS.

>>88625132

Saw it coming and still fell for it. Shame on me, I guess

>>88624573
>>88624230
Far Side's problem is that it doesn't have any kind of presence online because Larson has an kinda understandable reason for refraining from posting his comics online. The downside is it means a lot less exposure.

>>88625087
the joke is people who dont understand what kafkaesque is

>>88624336
Le Dump
http://imgur.com/a/nu4AB

>>88625169
>Larson has an kinda understandable reason
What is the reason? I never read the letter or whatever.

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>>88625205
Don't forget you're here forever

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I guess its time for Le BUS

>>88625557
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>>88626475
I...uh, what?

>>88626445
>>88625557
I love the Bus comic series, You sir are a great man.

>>88624336
I like this

Ignore this man >>88626499
and keep posting!

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>>88623545

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>>88626518
thank you

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>>88626499
U KNOW WHAT

>>88624629
It's a metaphor, essentially a take on shakespears "all the world is a stage." Even the simple act of a man getting on, standing, and getting off the bus is itself a presentation and an act for all those who are there to witness.

>>88626584
> When you spend your whole live trying to get on and off a reality warping bus and you develop your own reality warping powers that allow you to escape from prison with a bus.

>>88626595
Goddamn I love it, post more

>>88626668
>l' expresso
I want that mug. And the planter.

>>88626658
Jesus

>>88626465
Okay the bug person is definitely a reference to kafka's metamorphosis, this is trying to be Kafkaesque.

>>88626664
more like he knows the laws of the universe and he is using them to his advantage

>>88626668
I unironically want that Bus planter for my apartment window.

>>88626713
My sides

>>88624730
This is pretty good

>>88623545
No cow tool touching, ma'am.

>>88626880
Why did this one get me

>>88626797
I guess you can get a 1:24-1:18 scale bus model, make a cut-out in the roof and put flower pots inside? Although scale models of 1960s buses are rare, large-scale ones even more so.

>>88626610
>normies

>>88626965
L-lewd
I'm amazed by how many variations this guy can come up with

How many pages are there?

>>88626996
about the same number of bus comics

>>88626763
Huh, I did not know this

"The Bus" is fucking amazing. Thank you for sharing, anon!

>>88626858
Damn

>>88625087

Well, the caption is "no meat touching", right? And author Franz Kafka wrote about people who became caught up in seemingly nonsensical developments based on obtuse rules, laws and processes they don't and can't understand.

The lady probably thinks that "no meat touching" is such an obtuse rule and therefore remarks that it seems kafkaesk to her aas she does it anyway... the joke of course being that it's fairly easy to see why meat touching would not be allowed... for hygienic reasons.

>>88626868
Why was that one denied?

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Good shit
This is makeing my xmas

>>88627131
I think the joke is they're supposed to go in evolutionary order, and the bus driver sees our bus-going protagonist as less evolved than that early man.

>>88626531
shin megami tensei

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>>88623545
Does this help?

For those who want a better idea of what kafkaesque is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ

>>88626576
This one is great

>>88627362
Tools are often harder on livestock than on farmer.

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I don't think this comic exists anywhere anymore

>>88626993
there is a reason Christopher Priest loves buses so much

>>88626786
I think in this case the bus would be your prison all along

>>88627363
>the onion
I do not enjoy their humor.

can YOU make a kafka-esque comic

>>88624851
oh noooooow i get it

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>>88627514
Only comic I ever made was this. Not very kafka-esque, but will hopefully give you cancer.

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>>88627016
Nope, there are more. Someday I'll go and find them in scans.

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>>88627514
this one

>>88627748
Is this loss?

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That's all I've got from somewhere.

>>88627765
Its an egg

>>88627730
I chuckled anon.
Who ghosts tho? easier to draw or you wanted to add an additional layer to the pun?

>>88627834
It was the only level of the pun.

Now looking at, did you think the ghost on the right is fat?

>>88624851
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>>88627648
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>>88624730
I DONT GET IT STILL

IT WOUDL NEVER BE CALLED f*** AND s**** IN REAL LIFE

>>88624832

Quino... Love his work

>>88624938
I didn't realize the pun. I just thought it's a surreal picture of a family obsessed with squares.

>>88626531
Bosch figures--"Garden of Earthly Delights" or "The Last Judgement"??

>>88626705
this feels somewhat self-conscious

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>>88627967

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>>88627866
Yes.
Also makes for a pretty good template

>>88627967
It's not real life.

>>88626705
Is he standing on top of the bus while he drives, or was he waiting at the bus stop when the bus drove underneath him?

>>88628227
Now the atom jokes with ghosts - that's kafkaesque.

>>88627762
omfg

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>>88628223
Is this Kafkaesque?

>>88625087
Andy explained the joke in the episode.

It was taking a shot at people who use "Kafkaesque" to describe things or situations which are NOT Kafkaesque. It'd be like swapping the bubble for "That's ironic- I had SALAD for lunch!". The joke is that she's using the word wrong, and is dumb.

>>88628408
That's so chauvinistic

>>88627050
agreed. I'm saving all of these

>>88627130
> Not having the tools be a knife, a basketball and a welfare check.

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And, apparently, The Bus 2 was published last year! That's good news. No one scanned it yet, though.

Criteria for Kafka-esque
>Existential dread, self-doubt, physical deformity
>blurred lines of dream/reality, expectation/consequence, mind/body
>Institutionalized anti-logic, catch-22s and "unwinnable" social realities

>>88627742
The Bus comic comes the closest to me. It's got that Sisyphean quality of inevitable struggle and failure against a world that can never be truly known.

>>88623545
this is so intalligant, nahalistic and with a WACKED sanse of humour, like mysalf

>>88628586
Bloody Hell. This thread gives me vibes to other such threads like "What is the Macintosh Plus of comics?". Not necessarily thinly-veiled off-topic threads, mind you, but threads full of people who don't understand a certain work and/or term.

Ice cream? I love ice cream!

>>88626610
>when you wander off of 4chan for a few minutes

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Actually Kafkaesque.

>>88627809
>unborn offspring
k

>>88628586
I thought the most important thing in Kafka's work was that all the characters had inferiority complexes that self-impose limits and purposely put themselves down in front of overpowering authority and fathers.

>>88626603
shes... stronk

>>88629074
*She's strong.

Non memeing, but what did Paul Kirchner mean by "the bus"? It's so strange and foreign

>>88626891
This is my favorite

>>88629302

Why do you think everything has to have some deeper meaning? Maybe the guy just likes to draw buses

>>88624832
After reading Uzumaki, you'd know the dad is completely justified

>>88627792
Kek, I always love his expresions at all that shit. It's like he's trapped in Lovecrafts puplic transport

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strangely enough, i have never been able to find the source for this. The only reason i have it is because someone posted the artists works on here once, but sadly i forgot to save the thread.

>>88628252
I think it rose upwards

>>88626668
>the bus 2: the quest for increased fares

>>88625557
This one is legitimately scary

>>88627762
>roundabout

>>88626658
Fuck, I love it.

>>88630465
Peter Bagge

>>88628560
>check Amazon
>24 euros for both Bus 1 and 2
goddamn so tempted, but I already spent my for-christmas money

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>>88628070
>Bosch

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>>88633627
far better version

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>>88626499
The Bus. That's what.

>>88626603
>Linens
>Stationary
>Hardware
>Sundries
>Flotsam?
>Offal?

You can really get it all at Schapp's.

>>88626623
I like the bald guy's detached bemusement here.

>>88623762
That's a fully comprehensible comic.

>>88627090
No, that was not the caption. That was just what Kevin suggested as a "better" line. It would be the deli guy speaking instead of the lady in that version.

Post Gary Larson if you guys have any he's funny in my opinion

>>88627742
Nice. Every time that The Bus is posted I can get a new strip.

>>88626658
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

>>88626723
I'm not proud of how long it took me to figure this one out. Kirchner is a madman.

>>88626555
I don't understand. Why wasn't the fire hydrant let on?

>>88634938
Probably got a different bus. Or waiting just waiting to cross the street.

>>88634938
it was getting off of the bus

>>88626545
That's pretty good

>>88626668
>wearing glasses in the shower

>>88623545
So shit that in reality is simple but a lot of people think is DEEP?

Definitely Heathcliff.

>>88626909
goty

>>88625087
The joke in the comics is that people don't understand the phrase kafkaesque so they misuse it. The joke in the show is that nobody who sees the comic understands the phrase either so they don't get the joke.

>>88624336

The motto of the bus: "Your expectations? I piss on them."

>>88626584
#lifehacks

>>88634888
god damn it

Kafka-bump

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>>88626576
These are great.

>>88626531
>>88626465
These makes no fucking sense, what's going on in the last panel of the bug one?

>>88626932
I don't get it.

>>88628408
How ostentatious of you

>>88637642
>>88628517
Oh, using $10 words are we now?
For a board that likes thicc butts we can be rather vainglorious.

>>88626953
That's what I call an elastic collision.

>>88626769
Its like that one episode of Spongebob

>>88627762
Ohhhhhh

>>88626850
>world situation getting worse

kek

>>88625087
shes touching the meat!

>>88626481
now THATS what I call Kafkaesque 7!

>>88624832
Uzumaki.jpg

>>88626914
Something about this one unsettles me the most.

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>>88624730
>don't order the cow tools

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>>88624730

All these Bus comics are great.

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Does this count?

>>88624518
Cow tools is a very simple joke that would warrant a light chuckle if he hadn't fucked up the drawing of the tools.

>>88627421
Is there any more of this series?

>>88633758
Incidentally, someone recently interpreted the music on the guy's ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnrICy3Bc2U

>>88637143
Well that first one is a reference to a series of famous Renaissance hellscape paintings. By verdun, I believe.

The second is just a subtle reference that everything is horribly wrong... I think.

>>88626576
>Watchdogs physics.webm

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>>88634546
unpublished comic from prehistory of the farside

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This comic suddenly makes a lot more sense.

I thought this was going to be a Mission Hill thread.

>>88639355
Its easy to think alot of things.

Everything about "The Bus" is amazing.

>>88637731
Responding to posts absente reo uh?

post scriptum: avoid ad hominem please

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>>88639113
It's been taken down, I only have an incomplete set saved.

>>88640288
Wow, is it supposed to be that abstract and weird?

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>>88640307
I'm posting some of the least abstract pages

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>>88640307
This is what it mostly looks like

>>88640339
Oh my goodness. Can you please post a zip download somewhere? What's it called bu the way?

>>88626603
NANI

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>>88640360
Try this
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByV0W0uzHNJIRG85R2VNNGIzTDA

>>88640389
Thank you very much!

>>88626638
>used pastries

top cake

>>88626815
Made me think

>>88626850
>X-RATED FRUIT

>>88625169
>Far Side's problem is that it doesn't have any kind of presence online

that doesn't stop Calvin and Hobbes from being everyone's favorite

>>88623963
is this loss

>>88638904

I never got the gin n' piss part

>>88638904
Where's Ben Garrison's signature?

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>>88623762
If that's a comic, then this is a comic too.

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>>88638011
Better quality.
This is a French edition, which is 90% of what we've already seen and 10% of what was already published but didn't got to that collection.

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And now, previews of The Bus 2 available online.

>>88641216
>releasing previews of a collection already released a year ago

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>>88641245
Muh piracy
Seriously, if I could order it, I'd do it heartily. But at where I am the shipping would add like a half to the total price.

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That's about it.
Bonus stuff: http://thedoperider.blogspot.com/

>>88641312
We need a reprint of Dope Rider too.

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Heathcliff is the modern master.

>>88626858
Wait, this was a Futurama episode.

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Source is 'A Lesson is Learned by the Damage is Irreversible'. Doesn't update any more, but the archives are pretty great.

>>88641216
>typewriter repair
>video rental
>tattoos
heh

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>>88624914
>now that's kafkaesque!

>>88641239
>Setting next to /d/

>>88641306
It's clear that no one wins in this reality and damn do I love it that way.

>>88639276
Ha that's pretty good

>>88623762
Ugh fuck. I'm a stand up comedian with a similar joke and now I have to retire it. Whatever. It is already tired and hack I guess I can keep beating the dead horse.

>>88642151

What would the other ones be?

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>>88634546