Sorry I don’t have a higher resolution version of this. It’s my favorite Kliban cartoon.
Generals gathered in their masses
Poisoning the brainwashed masses
Evil minds that fight with babies
Sorcerer of dark brain rabies
OH LORD YEAH
In the field the babies giggling
As the generals start their aiming
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.
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.
What the hell?
You didn’t know that’s what they did in their spare time?
Spare time?
Its a metaphor
Duh, my confusion is what the metaphor is about
Young men die while old men grow rich and fat.
It’s a very direct metaphor for what generals do.
You saying it is not real game?
You don’t watch sports?
I don’t…
Ain’t war hell?
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.
Kliban
Just looking some pieces up, and wow thanks for the reference. I love this art style so much
It’s so disturbing 😰
