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Honey ([personal profile] bookfrog) wrote2007-02-12 12:47 pm

Norb, Daniel Pinkwater & Tony Auth

This 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? Sundays?

(Anonymous) 2007-02-16 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
http://www.struat.com/justin/norb1.html

Re: Norb? Sundays?

[identity profile] bookfrog.livejournal.com 2007-02-16 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, awesome! Thanks!