Comments
regarding On the Road - First Edition Collection
We gave copies to our friends who are long-time fans of The Far Side and Herman and they loved your book. The drawing style and wry sense of humour seemed to continue in a similar vein of these master comics, with the occasional pause where you think - I don't get it - and then the penny drops. Delightful all around. Bravo, Chuckle Brothers. When is the next volume due? Sylvia Gazsi Gill - Ottawa, Ontario
I dearly miss the Far Side desk-top calendar, which I used to buy annually as a traditional gift for my son. Any chance of you coming up with 365 cartoons and marketing them in this format for 2007? Annette Bellamy - Ottawa, Ontario
I have just chortled and howled my way through your book, and it is super. I would like five more to give as hostess gifts (certainly better than a bottle of wine to loosen the inhibitions!). I really liked your suggestions for Rejected Olympic Demonstration Sports. I also loved your anonymous clubs. Good cartoons, like good literature, show the readers their own lives from different perspectives. For example, your cobwebbed drivers waiting for the light to change reminded me so much of Quebec City lights - which are ALWAYS red. My husband is unamused when I say that I could read War and Peace during a stop. Waiting for the sequel or syndication. Jennifer Faguy - Ottawa, Ontario
I have, of course, chuckled my way through the entire booklet and congratulate you on a very attractively produced collection of cartoons which are beautifully drawn - this is a collection of amazing talent! Good for you and I wish you every success from now on. Pat Winter - Bobcaygeon, Ontario
I just finished On the Road - First Edition Collection. Once I started, I couldn't put it down. Your comic offers a fresh perspective that works on many levels. Your approach is amusing and clever. I haven't seen anything like it anywhere else. I must confess that I don't even read the funny papers anymore. Most comic strips are tired or formulaic and the rest are just sad. Remember when the funny papers were one of the value-added features of any newspaper? Remember when people used to pass a good comic around the office? No more. How many kids even read the funny papers anymore? That might change, if there were more comic strips like the Chuckle Bros. Congratulations and keep up the good work. Please let me know when your next volume is available. Charles McSpaden - Gatineau, Quebec
Most of the cartoons brought a smile to our face and gave us a chuckle. We found some of them brilliant - the kind that made a person really laugh - ie: the postponed meeting on page 5, the astronaut joke on page 35, and our all-time favorite - the invisible man meeting on page 78. These jokes do not rely on off-color inuendo, racism, or sexism or lame political humor. The Chuckle Bros rank up there with the best of humor found in newspapers and upscale magazines. We are looking forward to your next book of cartoons! Helene and Fred Harshman - Calgary, Alberta
It is difficult to imagine the equivalent of an ice-cold glass of water on the hottest prairie day, but I think I just did....I just read your book of single-frame cartoons that brought a perpetual smile of unabated pleasure to my face. That is rare these days, as I read the 'comics'. Sure, I smile, but not because I have been 'stumped', 'surprised, or 'complimented' by the intelligence of the humor and the resonance with my own life experience. I 'smile' because I can't believe that no-one can make me laugh anymore - that's really funny in a strange kind of way. And then I read the Chuckle Bros cartoons in this new book, and (wonder) why I don't find THIS in the comics (these days).... Judy Duchscher - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
