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. At the beginning of its run, a collection of the first batch of strips was made
readily available in a completion book for his 50th birthday.
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.
ReplyDeleteI'd never seen this one before. Came across a mention of it when looking up Jim Davis because of U.S. Acres on GoComics. I like it. Original ideas. Doesn't matter to me that there may have been a limited amount of ideas for it. The ideas he came up with are funny. I also read that U.S. Acres was criticized for being "plot-less". What?!?! Think of how many comics out there are just individual jokes. Does there need to be a plot to be funny? I think not!
ReplyDeleteWhy was Mr. Potato Head's comic strip and TV show short lived? Because of Toy Story?
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