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Whenever I take a break from updating Doctor Fun, I try to make up for it by uploading some of my older pre-Doctor Fun cartoons, all scanned from pen and paper. All of this stuff was drawn long before the Internet, Photoshop, and all that. I only add new material to this page when I take breaks, but I plan to be a lazyass and take lots of breaks, so everybody wins.

Most of what I've put here so far has been collections of cartoons I drew in the mid-80s, all on some theme that happened to grab me at the time. Some of these themes still grab me. A few of these cartoons even reappeared as Doctor Funs.

Ironically, the only one of these theme collections that was accepted for publication (by Simon & Schuster A Famous Publisher) can't be put online here because of legal problems. The problems were not with The Famous Publisher but because of the inability to ultimately come to terms with the trademark owner of Mister Potato Head The Topic. Oh well. All this excitement for what turned out to be nothing happened years ago. Lucky for me I had a temp job.

In addition to the theme cartoons, there are plenty of random old cartoons. Some of these have aged better than others. Eventually, it will all be here.

And sometimes I actually draw all-new stuff that doesn't fit with the "regular" Doctor Fun, so I put it here. You win either way!


September 7, 2003, this finishes it up for 1988-89. There are a couple cartoons that aren't particularly funny anymore, but I left them all in since this was more than ten years ago, and not presented as something brand new. These cartoons aren't in order that they were drawn. The ones with the pencil borders around the edges are the earliest ones. You'll notice a trend towards a single topic in the last two pages - those were drawn for some special project. There is one in there I don't understand at all - even a Google search didn't help. I'll let you figure out which one it is.

May 19, 2003, why are you not surprised to find 100 more scanned cartoons from 1988-89.


(Because of some problems on ibiblio, Doctor Fun was partially offline the week of May 12 - the cartoons intended for that break are being run this week, May 19.)

May 5, 2003, here are 100 more scanned cartoons from 1988-89.


Doctor Fun's Peep-O-Rama 2003

Doctor Fun's Peep-o-Rama 2003 is just like Doctor Fun's Peep-o-Rama 2002, except it's different cartoons. It's about Peeps. (Three pages.)



Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus 2001

December, 2002 - Hooray! Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus 2002 is here! 41 more lame, sloppily-drawn "holiday" themed cartoons. If that's not enough, here's Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus 2001.

And now there's more - how about some color cartoons from 1988? There are only 40 of them. I seem to recall that all the work that went into these didn't result in much, mostly because of a lack of any good way to make copies of them at the time. These were drawn like the black and white cartoons I've been uploading, but colored in with pencils instead of wash. And don't worry, there are still plenty more black and white cartoons from 1988-89 to slog through before we're done. I'm really doing all this backwards. At some point I have to scan all the stuff from back then that actually got into print, so I can prove I used to be a real cartoonist.


November, 2002 - The next-to-newest thing here is 300 more cartoons from 1988. On the off chance that you are wondering why there are so many old cartoons from 1988, they are really from 1988 to 1989 because my record-keeping maybe wasn't so good. And they are in no particular order. My opinion would be that the funnier and better-drawn ones came later, over the years they got more and more mixed up, so this is what I had when I started scanning. (All of this stuff is already scanned - I'm just sitting on it to use it when I take breaks.) I lived in New York from 1985 to 1989, which explains some of the themes and the building in the background, including the World Trade Center (so I slipped it into the logo). If you want to see them all, start here.

Doctor Fun's Peep-O-Rama

Gather 'round kids, it's time to for Doctor Fun's Peep-O-Rama, 30 more thoughtlessly written and hastily drawn cartoons about Peeps that didn't make the cut as "real" Doctor Fun cartoons. Don't read too many at once, you'll get sick. (Three pages.)


Doctor Fun's Christmas Bonus 2001

It's Doctor Fun's Big Fat Christmas Bonus. These are a bunch of cartoons I sketched but didn't use as "real" Doctor Fun cartoons for 2001. I had a lot of sketches left over, so I decided to quickly draw some of them in a slovely and thoughtless manner and try to pass it off as my Christmas Gift to You.


1987

Here are most of the loose cartoons I have lying around from 1987. There is no theme to this set of cartoons, but there are a lot of them. Many of them aren't even funny. I leave it as an exercise for you to decide which ones are funny and which ones aren't. Why 1987? Most of the extra stuff I've put online already is from 1987. Going back through the old cartoons, 1987 is the first year where the drawings and the jokes seem to hit more than they miss. Unlike the cartoons from 1988-89, which I seem to have neglected to put dates on, so there's a huge honking pile of them to wade through, I actually know which ones I drew in 1987. If there had been an Internet and a Doctor Fun back in 1987, this is what you would have got.

Some of these cartoons weren't, er, "drawn good" to begin with, and scanning could only fix them up a little. The cartoons with the blobby dark parts are that way because that's how I drew them. Who knows? At the time I lived in a basement apartment in Queens, NYC, with 10-watt bulbs in all the lamps.

(In case you start reading and wonder where it all ends, 1987 goes on for 35 pages - 351 cartoons.)


Blobs

If you happen to be looking for a collection of cartoons mostly about amoebas, then Blobs may be the place for you.


Boogers, A Celebration is a collection of hand-picked cartoons on a certain subject. Only the most assiduous digging has pulled out these treasures.


The Eyes Have It

The Eyes Have It is mostly about gigantic eyeballs, with some other random eye jokes. (I'm extremely nearsighted, and spent a lot of time at the eye doctor when I was young.)


Heads Up

Heads Up is in two sections, the first section features the madcap antics of decapitated heads floating about in jars; the second section features people who have managed to somehow grow more than one head, and the shenanigans that ensue.


The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh is about snowmen.


Science Fair

Science Fair was actually drawn a couple years before all the other stuff here. Science Fair documents a visit to the so-called Hoagiesville Science and Engineering Fair, with exhibits in different age divisions, prizes, handouts, etc.


Doctor Fun's Grab Bag

If that's not enough, several years ago I uploaded about 200 old scanned cartoons and called it Doctor Fun's Grab Bag. The format is a bit low-rent, even compared to my other minimalist efforts, but you are clicking on it. Clicking. Clicking. Click.


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