Ever since
Pixar's Toy Story came out, I can never imagine viewing my old Mr Potato Head toy without hearing
Don Rickles's memorable tones first. The character's popularity has obviously grown far more since the
Toy Story Trilogy, though he was already popular long before then. Next to a
short-lived TV Series that almost no one seems to remember, he was also granted a sizeable life as a comic strip character.
Designed and drawn by
Jim Davis and
Brett Koth, famed for
Garfield and
U. S. Acres, I remember reading this with great delight on the old
ucomics website (now under the name of
GoComics). Featuring
Mrs. Potato Head and their two kids,
Chip and
Julienne, the humour centred on various subject in the strips' run - family life, handing a new job, taking advantage that all the characters have removable body parts...or in Brett Koth's case, complete surreality that invaded
Orson's Farm... XD
The strip's actual run escapes me as it's been so long, but at a guess I think it started out somewhere in July 2002 until June 2004 est.
However, I think it'd be nice if Jim and Hasbro got together again to at least release the original strips into printed form - or in case of Orson's Farm, "revived" online again for revisiting.
EDIT: Actually, scratch the above comment - the strips happen to have
already been available in book format for his 50th birthday back in 2002. Another slip under the radar...
So here's a healthy selection to enjoy anyway!
I don't remember particularly liking this one myself, and only ever found out about it because of those typical paperback books of strips at a book store since it wasn't offered in my local paper anyway.
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