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The Generals' Game - B. Kliban (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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Sorry I don't have a higher resolution version of this. It's my favorite Kliban cartoon.

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[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago

Generals gathered in their masses

Poisoning the brainwashed masses

Evil minds that fight with babies

Sorcerer of dark brain rabies

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago

OH LORD YEAH

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

In the field the babies giggling

As the generals start their aiming

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Never heard of Kliban. Noticed his work looks a lot like The Far Side. Looked up on wikipedia, Gary Larson's main inspiration is Kliban. Crazy.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Kliban was an absolute genius. I have every collection available of his comics, but there are tons that were never collected. The only place I've found them being archived is a Facebook group.

[-] ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

What the hell?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

You didn't know that's what they did in their spare time?

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Spare time?

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 months ago

Its a metaphor

[-] ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Duh, my confusion is what the metaphor is about

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 months ago

Young men die while old men grow rich and fat.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

It's a very direct metaphor for what generals do.

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

You saying it is not real game?

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

You don’t watch sports?

[-] ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I don't..

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ain't war hell?

[-] quaddo@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I used to be a huge Kliban fan back in the day. I've still got various t-shirts with his art on them.

From memory:

a cat wearing a Japanese headscarf presenting (/selling?) sushi
2 karate cats getting into it; one has the other by the tail
a cat dressed as a sumo wrestler
a cat playing the guitar and singing the blues: "Love to eat them mousies / Mousies what I love to eat / Bite they little heads off / Nibble on they tiny feet"

That last one is one of my all time faves. I would "sing" it to my friends whenever someone commented on my shirt, complete with the standard blues riff.

Another random one (not a t-shirt): 2 cats, one says "Mao", the other points and says "Mousie dung". It was a very oblique, random and context-free reference to Mao Zedong. So random, I think the only point of it was to illustrate the pun. If there was a clever political reference, it was lost on me.

[-] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Kliban

Just looking some pieces up, and wow thanks for the reference. I love this art style so much

this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023

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