Laura blew my cover about the faces I make in comics because it’s just not funny to end strips with my cracking up at everything.
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We watched clips Milo and Otis, which I remember loving as a kid, but as an adult, all those warm fuzzies were pissed on by the knowledge that it was filmed in Japan during the time of no animal rights laws. There is much speculation as to whether or not kittens and pugs died during the filming (of which I don’t want to muse upon further) but regardless, you can tell that the animals involved were upset. It felt like when I watched the making of the Wizard of Oz, in which the original witch got 3rd degree burns, the tin man almost died of nickle paint inhilation, someone committed suicide on set and the Munchkins were drunk all the time. That’s good old fashioned Hollywood!
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OK, now I’m depressed.
friggen awesome. I love Laura’s style so much. It’s grossly adorable. Makes me feel like vomiting rainbows of cute. Win!
Jim Gaffigan? Interesting choice…
Is your comedian crush in Chicago? Or nyc?
I’m pretty sure the on-set suicide is an urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozsuicide.asp.
I thought the munchkin committing suicide on the set of the Wizard of Oz was a myth.
I love Laura’s work so it’s always so interesting to see it side by side with yours. I also find it interesting that you draw Laura as much prettier than she draws herself and vice versa. It’s like you’re doing illustrations for a psychology textbook’s chapter on low self-esteem!
A house made of pillows sounds extremely comfortable. My only fear would be accidentally smothering myself. Or somebody farting on one of my pillows causing me to get pink eye.
Hey now, the drunk Munchkins had nothing to do with the filming. Little people are social deviants with no moral compass. Everybody knows this. Half the violent crime in this country is committed by little people. The bottom half. Zing!
Hm. straightdope (dot) com says that the [suicidal munchkin] legend was caused by a tethered stork/crane in the back of a munchkin scene. George Reeves, the 1950s, TV superman, did commit suicide, however. Maybe George Reeves felt really depressed that: The wizard of Oz and Superman, didn’t work well in his real life.
Oh well. Rest in Peace, George-O.
The house is not made of pillows, but I stumbled across this post a couple of months ago: http://www.redesign-day.com/mega-bed-room/
Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Tin Man but the aluminum dust coated his lungs and he had an allergic reaction. They changed the make up and the actor they replaced Ebsen with was fine. Ebsen was pissed though. So, when you’re watching the movie don’t worry that the actor your watching is slowly being killed because he isn’t. He’s dead now though.
TR- There is some speculation as to what happened to George Reeves. It might have been mobsters or an unfaithful wife. They’re probably dead now too. But the actor who played Jimmy Olson is still alive. He was in Superman Returns.
I would recommend you just straight up telling us who your comedian crush is; otherwise everyone will accuse you of being horny for Jim Gaffigan
I don’t mind if people think it’s Jim Gaffigan, he does have a certain allure. It’s not him though. I think Laura’s description could describe a number of comedians I adore, in that they just look like completely average, nerdy American boys. But the particular one in question is Mike Birbiglia
AS an Iowan, I’m curious what the physical embodiment of our state actually looks like?…
I think cartoonists just draw themselves as less fetching than they are out of a sense that it would be much worse to do the opposite–because then they’d be accused of having huge egos!
Also, the position of Julia’s (?) feet in Laura’s drawing is kinda funny–looks like an unmentioned third inhabitant (/corpse?) of the blanket! Not slammin’ on Laura’s drawing, tho, it’s just funny.
Birbiglia seems more Ohio to me.
The name is just too “ethnic” for Iowa.
Having been born and raised in Iowa, I thought that was quite a clever burn…though I imagined a much fatter, hairier type of person than this Birbiglia fellow.
Hey, my aunt in-laws are from Iowa! Plus an uncle in-law who grows and makes his own horse radish that could set your mouth aflame from 50 ft. away. He’s building a boat in his garage and mutters to himself a lot and he wants to meet his maker fighting a kodiak bear, and.. what was the topic again?
Ebsen was pissed because the studio announced “Buddy Ebsen has been replaced” without mentioning that it was because the makeup had put him in hospital. An announcement like that makes the biz think he’s a troublemaker, so apparently he had a hard time getting work for a while.