Sunday Comics: David Rees
(I’ve had to shrink all the images a bit to fit on my template, but clicking on them will bring you to the larger original on Rees’ own website.
I was referred to David Rees by Dave from Jesus & Mo, who I’ve featured here now and again whenever one of his cartoons particularly moves me. About Rees, says The Author, “Like me, he can’t draw. But unlike me, he doesn’t even try. He uses clip art.”
For all that he uses clip art, I haven’t gotten tired of the re-used images yet. Consult his website for yourself, choose a strip (there are four), and click on the “next” or the “previous” links, to view them in chronological order. Here are a few of my favorites, starting with the one above that I found the most touching of all, from Adventures of Confessions of Saint Augustine Bear, or AOCOSAB.
From his My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable strip, the answer to life’s eternal question:
Not to be confused with his My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable strip. This is an approach to life:
that will lead to this.
And finally, with his Get Your War On, or GYWO strip, which has been well covered by the press, what we’ve all been thinking:
You can actually buy a t-shirt with that cartoon on it here. “Get Your War On” book royalties are donated to land mine removal. (Mine Detection & Dog Center Team #5 of Adopt-a-Minefield), so there’s no need to feel like you’re laughing at the expense of the less fortunate than yourself. And I’m so sorry that my cold has knocked me out to the point of missing his appearances in Manhattan recently, but click here to see upcoming ones: events. For some reason his August 1st appearance at Bar on A isn’t on that page, but it’s on his home page.
