January 5 - 50 more cartoons from 1990 have suddenly appeared on the collections page!

December 20 - alas, I have not had time to update the logo, and the computer I use to draw is packed up. I will fix this before Christmas. And the long break starts this week. New Doctor Funs will begin again February 2, 2004. In the meantime, there will be sporadic updates with more cartoons from 1990, starting with 50 more right now. Have a nice Christmas, or holiday of your choice.

December 15 - sorry the logo is late - there will be a new one before I start the break.

December 8 - we're back. No time to fix the logo yet, though. There is a good chance there will be an extended break starting Christmas week. I have been working on Doctor Fun week-by-week instead of working ahead a couple weeks. While this kind of working on a deadline is fun for awhile, it gets tedious, and tedious equals bad cartoons. I will probably take the month of January to work ahead so I'm a couple weeks out starting again February, which will be good for all involved. For those late to the party, Doctor Fun stops when the archive counter gets up to 520 weeks, meaning ten full years. It doesn't matter how many actual years it takes to get there. We're now at week 433, so it will be awhile yet, but not forever.

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Doctor Fun is a cartoon. Not all Doctor Funs may be suitable for children and some childlike adults. There's a new Doctor Fun every weekday. Doctor Fun is hosted by ibiblio, the public's library and digital archive, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Doctor Fun first appeared on the Internet in 1993, and has been at ibiblio (ibiblio has had other names, including SunSITE and Metalab) since 1994. What Doctor Fun is, for the literal-minded, is a 640 x 480 pixel 24-bit color JPEG file. Doctor Fun has the dubious distinction of being the first web cartoon. Doctor Fun was not, however, the first cartoon on the Internet.

I still don't get it. Why do they let you ...? You're not ...? But ...?

Never you mind. Look - there's no reason for Doctor Fun to even exist, but here it is.

Thanks! Now that I know all that, I want to read the latest Doctor Fun cartoon!

Here is the latest cartoon. If you'd like to always link to the latest Doctor Fun, you can use this link:

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/latest.jpg

You can get a little thumbnail of (only the artwork) the latest cartoon, too.

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/thumb.jpg

That cartoon sucked.

That wasn't really a question, was it? If you didn't particularly like whatever the latest Doctor Fun cartoon happened to be, perhaps you are still Doctor Fun-curious and would like to see some Doctor Funs that other people seem to like a lot. Here's a mix of cartoons that other people, perhaps like you, seemed to enjoy. These cartoons actually got some hits, or I actually got some e-mail about them, or both.

• Here's the one about Barney.
• Here's the one about beavers.
• Here's the one about gerbils.
• Here's the one about tribbles.
• Here's the one about wasabi.
• Here's the one about vasectomies.
• Here's the one about Clusenix.
• Here's the one about Usenet.
• Here's the one about Don Knuth.
• Here's the one about The Incredible Hulk.

Those cartoons all suck, but continue with your feeble efforts to entertain. Show me some more.

Now, then - those are not necessarily my favorites, either. So I went through each year and picked out some that I thought were either particularly funny, or particularly well-drawn. A few I thought were both funny and well-drawn.

• Here's the one about the donuts.
• Here's the one about Godzilla.
• Here's the one about the chickens.
• Here's the one about the human cannonball.
• Here's the one about Mr. Spock.
• Here's the one about the sperm.
• Here's the one about the protozoa.
• Here's the one about the blow-up doll.
• Pick this one!
• Here's the one about the squirrel.
• Here's the one about the ice cream cones.
• Here's the one about the pinatas.
• Here's the one about the deathray.
• Here's the one about the elephants.
• Here's the one about tomatillos.
• Here's the one about watering the plants.
• Here's the one about the tapeworms.
• Here's the one about the Zamboni.
• Here's the one about the operating room.
• Here's the one about the goldfish.
• Here's another one about squirrels.
• Here's the one about Gumby.
• Here's the one about Santa.
• Here's another one about chickens.
• Here's the one about Mr. Potato Head.
• Here's the one about the weasels.
• Here's the one about the Titanic.
• Here's the one about the Muppets.
• Here's the one about the pickles.
• Here's the one about Vlad the Impaler.
• Here's the one about carrots.
• Here's the one about Rear Window.
• Here's the one about the fleas.
• Here's the one about the Enchanted Forest.
• Here's the one about Steely Dan.
• Here's the one about the Amish.
• Here's the one about noses.
• Here's the one about Mister Clean.
• Here's the one about Harry Potter.
• Here's the one about the chipmunk.
• Here's the one about the polar bear.
• Here's the one about Ultraman.

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These are the cartoons with just the right balance of 30-something sophistication and juvenile humor that I've been searching for! Thank you, Mr. Cartoon Drawing Man! Where can I read more?

Still not satisfied? Why not visit the Doctor Fun Archive, where you can browse all the old cartoons? Or Doctor Fun's Special Cartoons Unit, where you can browse stuff that's even older than Doctor Fun?

However shall I peruse only this week's Doctor Fun cartoons?

You can also see all the cartoons to date for the latest week. If you want to link to this page, it is always:

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/this-week.html

In a shameless attempt to increase traffic, I'm introducing a new, and perhaps temporary, feature called "Some Old Week of Doctor Fun Cartoons". It changes every day. Link to it at:

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/old-week.html

What's the deal with the logo? I don't understand the relationship between the unchanging dog-like character in the Doctor Fun logo, and the actual cartoon, and stuff I don't understand makes me mad.

There is also a Doctor Fun logo, which should be at the top of this page unless I screwed the link up, in which case there is an "error". The little guy in the logo is Doctor Fun, but he doesn't actually appear in the cartoons. We won't ever be able to sell any cute little Doctor Fun beanie dolls or big ugly Doctor Fun blow-up dolls unless there's some kind of cute little mascot, and that's the best I could come up with. (To date there haven't actually been any Doctor Fun dolls of any size at all.) There is a larger version of the logo available, than the one that appears on this page. Nobody ever clicks on it, but here it is anyway.

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/logo.jpg

You can get the smaller version, too.

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/logo-small.jpg

And a thumbnail.

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/thumbl.jpg

It would be nice if I could search the Doctor Fun captions. Tell me I can search the Doctor Fun captions.

Oh, yes, you can search the Doctor Fun captions two different ways:

Jack Leblond at Net Smart Incorporated, and Support Your Troops has kindly provided a mirror for Doctor Fun in the form of a search engine. You can also get a random Doctor Fun cartoon at Jack's page. Have fun.

Mark Plaga has created another Doctor Fun search page. Mark's page will display a slide show of cartoons after you make your search. Have more fun.

It would be great if I could search more than the captions.

Yes, it would be great, but none of that is available and it's entirely my fault.

Electronic postcards are so popular with the young people these days. Can I send a Doctor Fun electronic postcard to some teenage girls I met on IRC?

You can send a smaller version of a selected number of Doctor Fun cartoons as an electronic postcard at Toonogram, sponsored by Cyber Loft.

Toonogram was provided courtesy of Mostafa Eldefrawy, who did all of the work. Mostafa was also kind enough to give me the code to turn any Doctor Fun into a Toonogram, which I will do someday.

I should wish to receive Doctor Fun cartoons as missives in my "electronic mail". Is there perchance a Doctor Fun mailing list?

You can receive the latest Doctor Fun cartoon in your e-mail by joining Nicholas Barnard's Doctor Fun Mailing List.

I'm far away. Not close up. Is there a Doctor Fun site closer to me?

These Doctor Fun mirrors might be closer to you than ibiblio. This list is new and improved because the cartoons on these sites actually update. There used to be more mirrors. If you know of a mirror that isn't on this list, or want to be a mirror, drop me a line.

• Australia - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from Australian Cybermalls. (Their page only updates the latest cartoons, and looks different than this page.)
• Austria - Today's Doctor Fun and browse the Doctor Fun files from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.
• Germany - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from Dr. Bernhard L. Winkler's WWW-Mirror at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
• Great Britain - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from Manchester.
• New Zealand - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from Nick Kean in New Zealand.
• Sweden - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from SUNET.
• United States - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from the ibiblio mirror at Yale Medical School.

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We're a group of former Enron billionaires trying to spend our now-worthless stock options on foolish purchases. Where can we buy Doctor Fun stuff?

Nowhere that that I know of, but if you keep asking for stuff, sometimes stuff appears.

Are you soliciting ideas for Doctor Fun?

No, I am not soliciting ideas for Doctor Fun.

But, I've got an idea..

No.

Is Doctor Fun Copyright (c) 2003 David Farley?

Yes. Feel free to link to Doctor Fun, send it to your friends, send it to your enemies, print it out and use it for toilet paper (use the glossy photo paper so you clog the toilet real good) or tape it to your door. But anything beyond personal use I'd appreciate it if you'd contact me. You can use all those file names that never change to always link to the latest cartoon, the latest logo, the latest thumbnails, the latest week, and that. Thanks.

Some of those e-mail addresses on the old cartoons don't work. That's a puzzler.

Yes. tezcat.com, for instance, is out of business. This is the correct address:

d-farley@ibiblio.org

More! More! I want to know more!

Quick - before you wet your pants, read the tedious and exhaustive Doctor Fun FAQ.

Thanks for reading Doctor Fun! David

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