Doctor Fun's Grab Bag

The Short Explanation:

Here are 200 cartoons that I drew between 1987 and 1989. Some are funny, some are just weird, and some are of historical interest (in the most mundane way) only. I originally was going to delete these cartoons after February 17, but since a few of the mirror sites wanted to keep them around, it doesn't make much sense to delete them on MetaLab. If you've never visited these pages before, you may want to check out some of the cartoons in the "real" Doctor Fun archive, or visit the rest of MetaLab; otherwise go right to Doctor Fun's Grab Bag.


Warning Warning - Some, but not all, of these cartoons contain bad words, potty jokes, and potentially offensive material. No hard core stuff, though.


The Long Explanation:

When I first started Doctor Fun, it was unclear whether I was going to use it as a sort of "greatest hits" for old cartoons I had drawn, but never got into print (which would be most of the cartoons I've drawn) or work from all new material as I went along. After Doctor Fun became a going concern, it seemed a lot more fun and interesting to write new material, so, with a couple exceptions, that's what I've done.

I get a lot of e-mail from people who tell me they've followed the cartoon since it started. This is very satisfying, and has discouraged me from taking any sort of break (except when my hard drive crashed and I lost all my new cartoons awhile ago - ha-ha.) Now that I've decided I really need to take a little time off, I feel that I ought to do something special, so I've decided to look back into the pre-Doctor Fun days, and dig out some material for your amusement.

If the dates I could find on these cartoons are correct, they were all drawn in either 1987 or 1989. I'm sure I was drawing cartoons in 1988, too, but they must be in another folder somewhere. Some of these cartoons would hold up perfectly well today as Doctor Funs. Others would not, either because they don't really make any sense anymore, are too stupid, or are just somehow not Doctor Fun cartoons. My only criteria for picking out cartoons for this collection are that they still somehow grabbed my interest, even if they were offensive, childish, obscure, badly drawn, or more strange than funny.

So enjoy, or be offended, or be bored. There are no captions here - just links to files. Most of the bathroom humor and less tasteful stuff seems to be towards the top of the list - I'm not sure why; it just came out that way.

These cartoons were all drawn in pen and ink, and shaded with some sort of watercolor wash, or magic marker. With a couple exceptions, the cartoons are all in black and white. I didn't do much color work until right before I started Doctor Fun. The files themselves are mostly greyscale JPEGs, 640 x 480 pixels, ranging in size from 50 to 80K. I've done very minimal editing on these scans; just cleaned them up and added text for the caption, if it was too faint to scan on the original.

pub/electronic-publications/Dr-Fun/grabbag

if you want to grab multiple files for offline viewing.

As always, thanks for reading Doctor Fun.


Doctor Fun's Grab Bag

or, A Boring List of Files:

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  • David Farley, [email protected]