Norb, Daniel Pinkwater & Tony Auth
Feb. 12th, 2007 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookfrogThis collects all of the daily strips from the short-lived newspaper comic Norb. Norb was created by Daniel Pinkwater and Tony Auth and ran for about a year. Its run ended on my sixteenth birthday. I had never seen Norb, because it wasn't in either of the newspapers we got at the time. In fact, I never would have heard of the strip if I hadn't read about it in a collection of Pinkwater's essays.
Norb is a mad scientist with a pet unthawed pygmy mammoth named Eugen (OY-gen). He and Eugen hang out with the girl next door, Rat, and have adventures, such as Eugen being kidnapped by a rock star or going to a poetry reading.
As the strip goes on, more characters are added to the cast.
It's a strange strip, funny and interesting. I wish there was more of it. I understand there were also Sunday strips, but I guess there's no way to see those.
Norb is a mad scientist with a pet unthawed pygmy mammoth named Eugen (OY-gen). He and Eugen hang out with the girl next door, Rat, and have adventures, such as Eugen being kidnapped by a rock star or going to a poetry reading.
As the strip goes on, more characters are added to the cast.
It's a strange strip, funny and interesting. I wish there was more of it. I understand there were also Sunday strips, but I guess there's no way to see those.
