There are certain comics panels that sometimes appear in my memory out of the blue and make me laugh, and a lot of them are from the early work of Chester Brown. This one pops up most frequently (it’s the third panel from Chester Brown’s Ed the Happy Clown saga; Ed is on his way to entertain the kids at a children’s hospital):
The doctor’s pipe is the coup de grâce.
As a teacher, I have to confess that this next panel (from a short comic reprinted in The Little Man) sometimes tempts to me to laugh outloud–or at least smirk like the “young man” below–at inappropriate moments in the classroom:
Hy Mr. Madden, i love your work and your style, to me it’s very expressive and poetic.
Great seance of story telling.
Thank you for you nice boock
-Esercizi di Stile- very, very powerfull.
I do my apologies for my bad english, i can speack quite well but whe i write……
Anyway, bests!
Niccolò Storai.
Hey Matt– When I read the headline for this entry, I immediately thought of the panel of the kid getting a zero at the end of the Inuit tale. That and the one he **didn’t** publish…with the kid’s reply…excellent!