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| "Fear of Living" promotional panel - pen & ink - 1981, DS (as N.S.) - Published in the East Village Eye, 1982 |
Translatable comic captions (frame by frame):
1) Why are these men smiling?
2) A) They're stiffs.
3) B) It's all done with strings.
4) C) Drugs.
5) D) Plastic surgery.
6) E) They're being paid for it.
7) O)
8) X) (Balloon: "I don't know but I wish they'd stop!")
psi) FEAR OF LIVING COMICS
9) 9) You call this smiling?
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| "Fear of Living" "People" panel - pen & ink - 1981, DS as (N.S.) - Published in the East Village Eye, 1982 |
1) FEAR OF LIVING COMICS
2) "People,
3) People
4) who need
5) people...
6) are the luckiest people
9) in the
10) world..."
11) (Lower half) (Balloon: Frankly, I like cats better...)
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Why more "Fear of Living"?
(Besides which, I always hated that Streisand song...)
Incidentally, for those who can't read english... or, just can't read my cartoon writing, I'm going to add a paragraph of translatable script below, as I did just now in the previous panel.
(Note: If these strips appear blurry - trying clicking on, and viewing the larger size...)
MORE "FEAR"!
Well....*I* think they're extremely amusing. You have a real talent for this sort of cynical comic strip expository.
ReplyDeleteAnd still relevant even decades later! What's that say about society????
thank you for posting these.
Welcome. Truth is, I'm down to the wire with this relocation nightmare, and haven't time for anything else.
DeleteYeah, well, fear is kind of a timeless thing, ain't it? ;-)
Then again, if you were born around the time I was inking this strip, chances are you're not even familiar with the Striesand tune - which is key - so, in that respect, the "People" strip is dated.