Sometimes I feel “Lio” might lean a bit too heavily on the pop culture references but I must admit it has become one of the only new strips in recent memory that I look for.
Geesh look at that kid in the second panel, his head is completely on backwards! That alone is creepy enough for me! It’s rare to find a comic strip that is funny AND well drawn. I too miss Calvin and Hobbes.
Used to be you’d never see a strip like this outside the pages of Mad Magazine or National Lampoon. Now here it is, sharing space with Marmaduke and Rex Morgan. So-called “sick” humor has gone completely mainstream.
A strip like this may have run in Lampoon in the early 1970’s, but it wouldn’t have eclipsed any cartoons in a similar vein done by the great Charles Rodrigues.
By Sitji Chou. A man tries to understand the futility of creating human connections when they’ve been impeded by the microcosmic void between material particles.
By Dylan Hayes. Lesson 1: Everyone gambles, not everyone loses. Lesson 2: The world is full of traps. Lesson 3: You cannot win if you don’t take risks.
Sometimes I feel “Lio” might lean a bit too heavily on the pop culture references but I must admit it has become one of the only new strips in recent memory that I look for.
Ouch!
thanks for the tip. enjoyed it. =)
you can see more at http://gocomics.com/lio/
That’s creepy.
Lio is starting to fill that void in my soul left by the end of Calvin & Hobbes.
Huh… This strip doesn’t really do it for me.
Maybe the cartoonist hasn’t hit his stride yet.
Once Tatulli evolves past his Tim Burton/Edward Gorey wannabe phase, he just might reach Charles Addams wannabe status.
Quiet Desparation, you don’t know how right you are. :-)
http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2008/01/20/
Geesh look at that kid in the second panel, his head is completely on backwards! That alone is creepy enough for me! It’s rare to find a comic strip that is funny AND well drawn. I too miss Calvin and Hobbes.
Used to be you’d never see a strip like this outside the pages of Mad Magazine or National Lampoon. Now here it is, sharing space with Marmaduke and Rex Morgan. So-called “sick” humor has gone completely mainstream.
A strip like this may have run in Lampoon in the early 1970’s, but it wouldn’t have eclipsed any cartoons in a similar vein done by the great Charles Rodrigues.
i sooo love Lio-and our small minded paper just dropped it–too many complaints!!! i used it teaching creative writing–the kids loved it
Love Lio—————-sometimes you have to really study it to find the humor.
I thought it would grow on me. But it never did. It is the amateur version of Gary Larson’s “The Far Side”, my all time fav.