Tiny Footprints

As of this writing, Tiny Footprints is almost thirty years old. Most comics don't stay funny for more than a few years. Indeed most comedy tends to wither with age. There are some other exceptions: Cervantes is still a hoot, the Mark Brothers are perhaps eternal and then there's Kliban. Part of his appeal is that the things he draws about are eternal: The man with his brains falling out at the sight of a sexy woman, the naked man fishing on the opposite bank of the river from the naked woman, the intellectuals staring at the tough guys. But other things, like the fellow kneeling at the mouse hole with two slices of bread or the plucked ducks watching Icarus take off are evidence of a sensibility that's just this side of mad. That's mad as in whacky, crazy, lunatic. So if this book hits sixty, I predict that the cartoon of the emaciated couple admiring the contents of their stuffed refrigerator will still make people spit up milk through their twenty-first century noses. --Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and the novel bang BANG. ISBN 9781601640005

Burt Kliban is one of the unsung heroes of modern cartooning. 'The Far Side' and dozens of similar strips are pale imitations of this. A great sense of line and shade, wicked humour and wonderful strangeness make this unmissable. Buy it NOW!