CSotD: Classic cartoon — Kellett before Sheldon
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While I'm off reminiscing with high school friends, a little humor from my college.
When I went back to my 20th reunion at Notre Dame, I found myself talking to the undergraduates who were working the event. (Yes, just like the guys who used to chat with Zonker when Doonesbury did its annual reunion sequence.) As a result of their curiosity about the over-hyped but interesting era I had been part of, I did a periodic column in the campus paper for a year, stripping away the mythology and discussing what the 60s had really been like.
In that era, the Observer also featured a kid with a comic strip called "The Four Food Groups of the Apocalypse." His observational skills cracked me up on a regular basis, but I particularly liked this one, to the point where I kept the issue that it was in despite the fact that I didn't have anything in that edition.
The big difference between his Notre Dame and mine was that his was co-ed. When I was there, the ratio was much worse, since we only had the smaller women's college across the road to draw from, but at least women's athletics were at a level where we were only competing with other guys for the most impressive records.
(Okay, the fact is, one of the things I truly envy about those who are young in the modern era is that we didn't have those sharp, confident athletic girls striding down the street with their ponytails sticking out the back of their baseball caps. However, you don't have to be an All-American softball pitcher to get me to strike out, thankyouverymuch.)
Sheldon fans know about Dave's earlier work, which is kind of freaky but building that kind of loyalty is how you make a living as a web cartoonist.
For the rest of you, a portrait of the cartoonist as a young man.
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