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Welcome
to Quigmans.com, AKA "Buddywatch".
Bringing you the finest in comic strip muckraking
for thirteen olympic years.
This site is not affiliated with Bunky "BMX!" Hinkerton,
the Quigmans, Creators Syndicate,
NAMBLA, the NAACP, the NCAA, AARP, The Wobblies or Michael Phelps.
Daily Catharsis
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8-19-08:
It's always nice to see a cartoonist avoid the cheap, easy,
obvious, boring, insipid, stupid gag about frogs and go
straight for the banal, imbecilic, illogical one instead.
This gag was written by Bunky's ex-pooky-wookums-shnuggle-wuggums,
Szyszka. How could you blame him for not saying no?
 
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 Upchuck
Update: Like a bad acid flashback these old Quigmans keep coming
back again and again, this one from 7-25-02, the Summer of
Loooooove. Wait. Sorry, I mean the Summer of Lame Comics.
This
thumbnail is the original from that date. Contrast and compare,
if you
dare.
Or care.
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For Even More Free Spleen-Venting Fun Visit the Catharsis Archive!
Like
Crap Through An Orwellian Goose:
The Editorial Excretions of Mallard Fillmore
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8-18-08:
Could there be any other "political" cartoonist other than
Bruce Tinsley, creator of Mallard Fillmore, who is more
consistently wrong? (Trust me on this one.)
Today's cartoon came out on the very same day as an article
drawing a very close comparison between a
story told by Senator John McCain and one which was written
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Keep
in mind that McCain used to tell the story of
the
cross in the third person, and that the tale didn't show
up in the original account of his captivity he gave U.S.
News
and
World
Report back in 1973. Of more recent note, he has
been discovered cribbing notes from Wikipedia for a speech
about Georgia.
As for Tinsley's cartoon, raise your hands if you think old
Alex was one of the greatest freedom fighters ever. Yeah,
didn't think so.
R.I.P. , Mr. Solzhenitsyn. And may your god save you from
hypocrites like Mr. Tinsley.
Bruce Tinsley... always good for an ironic laugh.
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The
Far Left Side |
There
are basically two kinds of people who come to this web site:
those that can't get enough of one man endlessly venting his
spleen over something totally inconsequential, like the Quigs,
and those who have really low standards in comics.
For both types of readers I have something new to share... The
Far Left Side. It's a politically-based rip-off of the long-gone-but-not-forgotten
"Far Side" comic strip. The Quigmans, in case you aren't
aware, is itself a rip-off of The Far Side, too, just 25
years farther along into the fermentation process. That explains
the aroma stench.
The strips have been created and
offered to the public in fits and
starts
since 2006
but
since
January of 2008 they're
on
a regular three-times-a-week schedule, posted at 12AM.
Unlike Gary Larson's strip which was generally politically
neutral, though subtly chaotic-left, the Far Left Side
dips heavily into the progressive spectrum and, thus, will automatically
offend the philosophic sensibilities of about 50% of anyone who
reads them. But at least I do it on purpose unlike Buddy who
can't help himself.
You can check them out by clicking
here.
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Whither
Buddywatch?
Quigmans.com
exists primarily to accurately illustrate a picture of the world's
second laziest and lousiest comic artist, Buddy Hickerson, creator
of The Quigmans. The honor of First Place for the most avoidable
comic strip goes to Jim Davis, he of Garfield fame, who seems
to have been sent by Satan himself to single-handedly rip the
heart out of the comics industry.
No other comic strip has the quite the same odorous pedigree as
a Quigmans cartoon. If Buddy's not writing it, he's not drawing
it, and on the occasions that he may or may not be drawing it
he's either using jokes that may have been used as many as FIVE
times before or is using the gag in a way that violates U.S. copyright
laws. Sometimes he neither writes nor draws the days strip and
in these instances you have to say to yourself "What's the
fucking point, Hick?". In almost all cases the joke
is never actually funny, inciteful, or inventive. Leave out ironic,
conceptual, or provocative, too. But if you need a joke about
fat people, Bud's your man.
My opinion, of course, but I'm not
alone in them.
I've been notating Buddy Hickerson's particular brand of sloth
for thirteen years now, a number to which I attach modest personal
pride, but a quick click of the History
button will lay bare the reasons for one man's marginal obsession
with this fourth-rate comic strip. You can also view the Proof
pages for actual examples of Buddy's sloth. Consider yourself
warned.
This site is bound to disillusion many starry-eyed acolytes to
all things Quiggish but if you decide a point has been adequately
presented then feel free to contact Buddy, his syndicate, or me
by clicking the contact
link. Get it off your chest. You'll feel better in the morning.
Thanks for
dropping by, have fun exploring the site, enjoy the snark and
I hope your time spent here leaves you a wiser consumer.
=Mike Stanfill=
Click here
to view site in French. I mean, why not?
"The Quigmans" are
copyright ©2008 Buddy Hickerson and the Creators Syndicate
with all rights reserved and all that legal stuff. Who
are you and why are you reading this?
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