Moving Funny Folk

One of my favourite old bits of FT was Funny Folk, Al Ewing’s take on the New Yorker cartoons, which adequately speared the obvious: namely that New Yorker cartoons not only stated the obvious, they stated the obvious five years after anyone else had noticed and two years after they cared. More importantly, they were not even vaguely funny (not Al’s ones - his of course were a step removed and became part of the joke). Now I can’t find the Funny Folk cartoons anywhere, which is a pity, for I suggest Al updates them for a new menace.

Anyway, in their usual timely fashion, The New Yorker have decided to embrace this Internets thing, and maybe make some of their groundbreaking cartoons move. Animated New Yorker cartoons, where instead of reading the dog on the computer say “On The Internet, no-one knows you’re a dog” you can hear it said in a funny voice. Someone has wasted a small amount of time on these. I suggest you don’t.

(Note the name of the webpage by the way is Internet.)

1. Tom on February 15th, 2007

   THere are about 5 copies of the cartoons in the files section of a certain mailing list, Pete.

   Meanwhile I have them all at home - I may (with Al’s permission) repost and rehost.

2. Al Ewing on February 15th, 2007

   Go ahead - they’re already somewhere on my ’storage blog’, the Beat Girl Comics Attic, which should be accessable through the Dibny Diary and has all the old work that I can find and is fit to print after all these years.

3. ian on February 15th, 2007

   Wow, I didn’t realise that Funnyh Folk had anything to with the New Yorker… I thought they were about folk who were funny.

4. Tom on February 15th, 2007

   Funny Folk was the collective name for all the E Brothers comics - but there was a specific New Yorker one, which I tend to think of as “I’m teaching him to sue”.