Letters to the Editor
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Wow!
That video was the best thing to come from this strip since it's inception! My hat is off to you Harold, if you were looking for recognition and props, then let me tell you my man you earned them.
Now, if you can make Family Circus as entertaining as that then I'd say you have a job waiting for you in Hollywood.
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So now there are two good things I've gotten from KOF...
A link to a real strip, Kukuburi ...
http://www.kukuburi.com/
And Harold's remix of KOF, which turns this vapid mess into something watchable and even enjoyable ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zjvuVHpk10
I don't care if Tom and Toni or whatever there names are stop or keep going, so long as the KOF letter writers keep up the good work!
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@Pennywhistler
I think it's Peter Arno you're thinking of in both cases. I doubt it's deliberate homage.
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loving this chat
the best thing about this is we've become great friends.
mcsnee - I'm reconsidering my comments.. I do think the strip has improved over the last couple weeks (Pennywhistler - the guy who's drawing this strip -Tom Bachtell- *is* the guy who did those New Yorker drawings) mainly because Tom brought back his New Yorker style. nevertheless, the quality is still low.. and I doubt I'll be reading for many more weeks.
I also don't think this strip is worth writing advertisers or canceling memberships. what kind of insanity is that?
deering - great reference to Cornell Woolrich. how do you know all this stuff.
Harold - hilarious. see what the Creators think: kansas@salon.com
if we stop reading this where will we all meet? kukuburi, perhaps.
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kukuburi fan mail
not to change the subject or anything, but kukuburi's weekly reader response is ridiculously encouraging and positive.. mainly because the strip (click "clamshell" below to be taken to it) is very good. here's an example - one of the two dozen posts this week:
karl Says:
February 12th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I love this comic, it has everything I want.
great art work
interesting story
surreal landscapes
awesome bad guy
To bad that i’m now so addicted i need to print this out and push the image straight into my veins!
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at last we know what happened to Alerto
...he didn't run off with the big shaggy lobster-chasing Danvers and have no puppies, that's for sure.
I don't remember the name of the poster, but she wrote every week asking "what happened to Alerto, the literate, multilingual shepherd, the only character I have come to care about?"
Now you know! Bwah-ha-ha-ha!
I think the authors ARE reading the letters section, and this is deliberate nose-thumbing. Every week they are basically sitting there saying "Nyah! Nyah! Pbbbt! Neeni Neeni Neeni!"
That's all this strip is about.
When the joke is that private--not sustainable, I fear.
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Another week gone.
Actually last weeks KOF was a landmark. The Authors decided to free up the trademark KOF face so it would become capable of showing expression and emotions. Thus fixing major flaw in the strip that AFAIK have not previously been pointed out by anybody here. They found it themselves.
The conclusion is clear. They care, they try and they are learning.
That leaves the question of whether the pages of Salon is the proper place for them to go through their learning process. Offhand I would say it is not; but then again I, like many here, do get some sort of thrill out of my weekly dose of righteous outrage at the strip. (Hum, could it be this is a satire on the Bush administration, Week after week, year after year, over and over, you cannot help but be amazed at the stupidity)
This week is a step back. That kind of disjointed, chaotic universe is fine for Broomhilda or Krazy Kat but placing KOF or a spy series there just does not work.
And then HaroldHaller comes along showing us what could have been, Outstanding. Nothing so bad it is not good for someting.
regards JakobA
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a KOF haiku
Kansas sparks Harold
Letters amuse and delight
From dung flowers grow
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No Editor's Choice?
Imagine that!
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@clamshell
>deering - great reference to Cornell Woolrich. how do you know all this stuff.<
I've been a voracious reader since I was three. (Seriously. Ask my parents. :)) And I _love_ Woolrich's work--he's one of the best noir thriller writers out there, and his tales have generated any number of slammin' movies (REAR WINDOW and THE BRIDE WORE BLACK among them.) I ran across a story of his ("The Phantom of the Subway") while in college and liked it so much I went to see what else the author had done. He's one of my fave top five writers, and if I could do something half as good as BLACK ALIBI or REAR WINDOW, I'd die happy. :)
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JakobA
several letter writers, myself included, noted the expressionlessness of KOF and wrote about it during the first three weeks (check the letters archive). One poster even got a reply from Tom Bachtell about the subject, who defended the immobile face of KOF as an "artistic decision".
So no, they didn't really find it by themselves, nor have they really fixed it; I think last week was a one-off. We'll see, if anyone sticks around.