rbadac (June 12, 1998)Robert Suggs wrote:
> Those old by-mail rip-offs reminded me of Gahan Wilson's absolute
> classic. Anybody remember it? It was a collection of strips originally
> published in National Lampoon called "Nuts." Very autobiographical,
> hilarious, touching. Probably my greatest influence (as if I could
> ever come up with anything remotely approaching it). It's the world
> seen nostalgically from a little kid's perspective. One time he sent
> off for a German U-Boat model, and built it up in his mind to nearly
> cosmic proportions. Of course what arrived fell a BIT short. Great
> book.
>
> Rob'So long, German U-Boat.' Makes me misty just thinking about it. His little brother was a cheerful little fellow; always went, 'Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi, !' and had to be watched closely lest he pick up something off the sidewalk he shouldn't and EAT it...
He went to the library to do a report on frogs once, and wandered into the Forbidden Area, which I have been looking for ever since.
rbadac
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Robert Suggs (June 13, 1998)
TANGENT ahead, so everybody else just go back to what you were doing. But first go to MXBookfinder and look for a copy of Gahan Wilson's "Nuts."REMEMBER WHEN The Kid stole the candy bar from the store, secreted it in his jacket and it just got bigger and bigger and bigger until he entered his home and it was the size of him? And how bad it tasted to him?
REMEMBER WHEN The Kid put the 2 X 4 up in the tree, sat on it, and said, "Every now and then something works out right." REMEMBER HOW it was the only "Nuts" with a happy ending?
REMEMBER WHEN he got the little circus for Christmas, was so pleased, then went over to his snotty cousin's for Christmas dinner, and his cousin had one 15 times bigger? Remember how at the end he was back home and his mother asked what he was doing and he said, "Just putting something up in the closet for good, Mom"? How his Christmas present was spoiled for him? Huh? Remember that?
More nostalgia ahead.
Rob
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rbadac (June 13, 1998)
[more 'Nuts']If I could cut my hands off to stop myself, I would....
REMEMBER WHEN the Kid was playing on the pier that everybody's parents said not to play on because all of those other kids had been hurt or killed doing it ('BOTH legs!!! Wow!!!'), and he did anyway, and his buddy fell off, and the Kid heard him screaming, and imagined him hanging on a nail with his bowels hanging out, or impaled on jagged pieces of wood, or worse, and he tore himself up going down there only to find that his buddy had an itty-bitty cut on his finger?
REMEMBER WHEN the Kid TRIED not to buy the chameleon at the fair because he KNEW it would die in one night, and the man promised him it wouldn't, so he bought it and gave it a bowl of sugar water and caught it two flies, AND IT DIED ANYWAY???
REMEMBER his dog Waldo?
(Sorry everybody.)
rbadac
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