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7-20-08: The
boys at somethingawful.com are getting into the Quigmans-dissing
act. Here's the original Quigmans cartoon they found worthy
of their attentions and how they reacted:
The joke is stupid, but what's
the point of the K-Mart t-shirt? And what the hell is wrong
with his pants? - Mister Kingdom
K-Mart was the stereotypical store of the ignorant, impoverished underclass --
in the 1970's. This cartoonist shows that not only is he perpetuating false stereotypes
(poor and uneducated does not equal stupid), he's also three decades behind the
times. - Dr. M
That joke is poo poo. "I'm holding it. I'm not holding it but I can hold
it."
OK, so you're not holding it. - davidspackage
The Quigmans has been around since the early to mid '80s, and this "cartoonist" (who
rarely writes or draws his own jokes) is known for reusing old comics from decades
past over and over again. So in all likelihood, this comic was drawn in the 1980s. (Actually,
it was from 2003. =mike=) - Deep Hurting
And finally, just to prove Buddy doesn't have a monopoly on misogyny:
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From newsgoups.derkelier.com
Looks like Buddy
Hickerson's "The Quigmans",
which has been around since March 1985,
has changed syndicates. I think it started with the L.A. Times
syndicate and then became part of the Tribune Media Services
group when they bought out The L.A.Times in
2000.
Personally I get more enjoyment not from the panel, but from
this guy who detests all things Hickerson: http://www.quigmans.com/quigblog.html
D.D.Degg
and
Wow. Fascinating stuff. He really has a hate on for the strip,
doesn't he? I haven't seen that level of snark since ... well,
since the last time I visited the Foobiverse!
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From Howard
Bunt's Blog:
I find these days, as I open my comic strip page in my local
paper, in comparison to other strips on the page, For Better
or For Worse is really struggling. Even
The Quigmans, which I have often thought was the poorest, written
and drawn series
in my local paper, is starting to compare favourably to For Better
or For Worse. The strips that surround it in the paper are filled
with the work of artists who appear to be actually trying to
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Somethingawful.com
(Note: These excellent rants refer to this Quigmans cartoon,
from 12-1-07:
"I'm sorry, dear. You love snacks and you needed a purse,
so I naturally assumed you'd love the Hot Pocket-Book."
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-by Deep Hurting
Speaking of hideous facial expressions...
The first time I saw this was on the student wire service that
runs many of my topical cartoons. I thought for sure that it
had to be the work of a student, instead of a professional.
But no, a quick Google search shows that this is in fact a professionally
drawn strip, which the author has been drawing since 1986.
1986. He's been drawing it for over 20 years. Supposedly after
working on-staff as an illustrator for the Denver Post, and
while contributing to the National Lampoon.
After all that time, this is what the drawing looks like. That
also means that, for a period of close to 30 years, editors
have looked at artwork that looked like this, or even worse,
and have repeatedly said, "Yes, I would like to pay you
to produce more of this, and then litter it throughout the pages
of my newspaper/magazine/periodical."
Look at the shading on those pants. Look at the lettering. This
was done by a well-established professional, not an obvious
amateur.
WTF is this bullshit, anyway!?
And while we're on the subject, how can ANYONE stand to draw
a comic that's NOTHING but a blatant rip of the Far Side, with
even worse artwork, day in and day out, for DECADES?! Much less
several people, apparently? Dan Piraro and Wiley Miller brought
their own thing to the formula, and also happen to be pretty
good illustrators. But the same cannot be said for the vast
majority of Gary Larson's clones.
You know, I used to think anyone could learn to draw, with enough
time and practice, and innate talent didn't necessarily have
to be a requirement. But comics like Cathy and this [Quigmans]
cause me to question my belief–even someone who's the
worst artist in the world should be able to become fairly skilled
after a period of constantly drawing for twenty years, if that
were true. No, the frequent and short deadlines on a comic are
not an excuse, either. Not after that long.
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- by jidohanbaiki
As soon as learned how to read, I read this strip everyday in
the comics pages. Even as I five year old, I was always fascinated
with how crappy and creepy all the characters looked and was
always dumbfounded by it's humor. I thought maybe it was just
something you had to be an adult to get. My feelings were pretty
much the same about "Sylvia."
It's been about ten years since I've seen the Quigmans, and
it looks like the style has changed but it still looks like
it was drawn in about five minutes with a goopy dried out ball
point pen. This is what my art looks like when I just don't
care and I'm drawing while on the phone checking my bank balance.
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- by Nausicaa
The extra galling part is that yes, people SHOULD improve over
time if they work hard enough, but it's the fact that they're
ACCEPTED while they're still at the poo poo stage that's extra
annoying.
I know I wouldn't want to see my stuff published that I didn't
think was a respectable level of skill. Even a trained, skilled
cartoonist will evolve and change over time - except they usually
don't get WORSE.
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KillerJunglist
Oh come on... This guy isn't even trying! Is that Zippy the
Pinhead in the background? What the ever loving gently caress
is up with Ms. Coulter's mouth? And I'm actually offended by
the lettering and choice of "word".
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davidkamp.com
"Whereas the current legion of Far Side rip-offs—The
Quigmans, Bizarro and The Fusco Brothers, to name but three—are
transparently, desperately self-conscious, straining fruitlessly
to re-create Gary Larson’s skewed, bovine freakiness.
They’re also dated; like faded wine-cooler posters in
a liquor store, they seem the last sorry embers of a trend
begun in 1986."
-David Kamp, 9-06
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rockwoodcomic.com
"I notice your continuous dislike of Family Circus. Well,
I support you wholeheartedly in that respect. I'd like you
to make a petiton to ban it. While you're at it, how about
Beetle Bailey, Marmaduke, Mark Trail, Hi & Lois, the Quigmans,
and many others? You could start a revolution: "Keep
our funny pages funny!"
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wired.com
Reader Paul Riddel commenting on the shutdown of the Dysfunctional
Family Circus web site back in 1999.
"What's really pathetic is not just the fact that so many
people over the past five years responded to the idea of tormenting
Bil Keane's dopey characters -- seeing as how The Family Circus
is a blight upon the newspaper comics page comparable to Garfield
or The Quigmans -- but that King Features Syndicate let this
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subgenius.com
"A few years ago the LA Daily News used to have the Quigman's.
Then they ran a readers survey to determine which comics they
would axe. Quigman's came in as the number one most hated comic
strip of all. So, I wrote a letter to the paper defending the
comic. They ran the letter, but axed the Quigman's. Bastards."-
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http://www.websnark.com
"I don't know about how many Far Side webcomics are out
there, but there are a surfeit of syndicated gag panels. My
newspaper right now has Non-Sequitur, Pluggers, and Bizarro,
and at one point had the Quigmans (until it was thrown out because
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101reasonstostopwriting.blogspot.com
In regards to a proposed new strip:
"Good Elvis Almighty, those cartoons are painful, and not
in a good way. And what's scary is that I could see him getting
a syndication gig for newspaper comic pages wishing to replace
The Quigmans or Mallard Fillmore with something slightly more
likely to engage a chuckle instead of the gag reflex."
- Paul Riddell,
January 23, 2007
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From joshreads.com
- in reaction to the Quigmans comic of 1-9-07
"Well, the joke in Quigmans is lame, so maybe John Kerry
drew the panel." - mibbitmaker
"Ugh, haven’t seen this one before. Horrible artwork.
That woman looks like Joe Lieberman in a wig and a skirt."
- Squawk
"The really sad thing about the Quigmans is that I remember
when Hickerson’s stuff was in the National Lampoon. It
was just as crudely drawn but it was a LOT funnier. Some of
the best ones were multi-panel efforts, and of course he wasn’t
putting ‘em out once a day… So I guess frequency
and format have a lot to do with it, but it’s always sad
when somone who used to make me laugh out loud can barely elicit
a grimace now…I mean, really, this is just typical Lockhorns
shite…" - Donald the Anarchist
"The Quigmans would do better if it just switched into
some sort of German depress-o-vision. They need to toss off
the pretense of a more white trash Lockhorns and embrace the
sheer dullness and black and whiteness of it." - Clouseau
"Is that a tranvestite hooker in Lockhorns Quigmans
or just some really, really bad art?" - Prehumous
And my favorite:
"To see a former Quigmans contributor obsess over whether
the head Quigmans guy is stealing from him, go to quigmans.com.
It gets to the point where he googles himself and the writer
and because he has more hits he concludes that he’s more
popular and relevant. Unfortunately, since he once contributed
to Quigmans he will forever be known as a no-talent ass-clown."
- reader-who-posts
That's me, the no-talent ass-clown. I'm so proud.
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(Story about a cartoon exhibition)
The weakest work, strangely enough, comes from two Dallasites.
Dan Piraro contributes covers to his famed "Bizarro"collections--good
enough for some, but hopelessly inadequate for presenting his
talent when his strips for the now-defunct "Wahoo Reader"
would have made a better choice. "Quigmans" creator
Buddy Hickerson's work elicits a curled lip instead of a chuckle:
his drawings resemble those of a baboon on Prozac. One exception
works because of its obviousness: "Classic Rock" portrays
a skeletal, spiderweb-enshrouded deejay (presumably based on
Q102's Redbeard) surrounded by Eagles, Foghat, and Rush vinyl. |
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From the Bremerton, Washington Sun editorials page
"Comics are sadistic"
To the Editor:
I've been a longtime subscriber to The Sun and enjoy reading
the comic sections of papers. The majority of your comic selections
are humorous or entertaining and are acceptable reading for
children.
The Sun has one comic that is neither acceptable to children
or adults. It is neither funny nor entertaining, but is disgusting
and sadistic. At other times it's stupid, gross and demeaning
to people.
This comic, "The Quigmans," needs an R or an X rating
to be acceptable for a family paper. I feel sorry for The Sun
and our community if there are readers of The Sun who find "The
Quigmans" funny or entertaining. I've felt this comic unacceptable
for a family paper for some time.
The particular comic that has given me the impetus to voice
my opinion to the editor is "The Quigmans" in the
comic section on Sept. 11. What can be found funny about somebody
about to be run over and killed be a semi-truck? How many in
our community have had a friend or relative killed in a auto-related
accident?
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From the Bremerton, Washington Sun editorials page
"Sadistic cartoons"
To the Editor:
I readily concur with Christopher Olmstead in his evaluation
of the cartoons "The Quigmans". I also enjoy reading
the "funnies" and have since I was a child. He is
right in calling [this cartoon] sadistic. It is strange that
[this] drawing is never upbeat - always degrading. I had gotten
in the habit of skipping it, but then thought better of it,
and started reading it again with the idea of making a fair
judgment. It was timely that Mr. Olmstead should bring this
to your attention. Political views should cover a broad range.
Comics, on the other hand, need to be acceptable for family
reading. Among your newer comics, "Pickles" and "Rose
is Rose" are excellent, both in drawing and content.
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Amish Tech Support
"Scribble-crap. What the Hell? Okay, so the Far Side
wasn't the Mona Lisa, but some of this Quigmans crap is...
well... crap. At least Dan Piraro of Bizarro has some style
and substance to his work, but there's a disturbingly large
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JEB- The Quigmans is a local one panel comic strip with terrible
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READERS' COMICS
SURVEY 2000: THE RESULTS
No joking: We'll consider your opinions
Brian Stallcop, Bremerton Washington Sun Editor
You love Pickles. You hate The Quigmans.
Those are the highlights of The Sun's most recent comics survey.
More than 2,800 readers responded to the survey, about half
on the
Internet and half with paper and pencil.
It's taken us several weeks just to log all of the paper votes
into a computer database. Now that we've sliced and diced
the numbers by age and gender, what does it all mean?
Just as we've done in the past, we're going to keep every
comic that makes at least one demographic group's top five
list.
That means that we'll keep some comics that are popular for
only small groups of readers, like Dennis the Menace (females
over 64) or Robotman (males 22 and younger). Different readers
have dramatically different tastes, and our comics page seeks
to have something for everybody.
We'll also be dropping some comics that just don't scratch
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10-17-96
"Bye-bye, Buddy"
The Morning News dumps a cartoonist for daring to make fun of
politicians.
BY GLEN WARCHOL
(parentheticals courtesy of Mike Stanfill)
In The Dallas Morning News, politics is no joking matter. Dallas
cartoonist Buddy Hickerson learned that lesson the hard way
when his quirky, irreverent cartoon, The Quigmans, was exiled
from the comics page recently for daring to do what folks--at
least those outside certain Middle Eastern countries--do every
day: poke fun at national politicians.
"I knew the rules about the comic page," a doleful
Hickerson says of his clash with the News. "You're not
supposed to do direct political assaults in the comic page."
(Yeah, but he did it anyway. I guess being
quirky and irreverant, much less doleful, doesn't mean very
much when you break the rules.)
The News has received letters complaining about The Quigmans'
absence, Hickerson says, but "of course I don't know the
numbers on that."
(This is a really peculiar statement.
I simply can't picture the comic editor saying..."Yeah,
we've gotten lots of letters about our decision to can your
crummy strip, but we're not gonna tell you how many! So THERE!
Nyahhhh!". You think Buddy might have fabricated this statement
in an attempt to gain sympathy? Nahhhhhhhh!)
The 35-year-old Dallas-based cartoonist and illustrator (Hickerson
has done illustrations for the Observer) says he tried to explain
to the News that it was personally important for him that The
Quigmans be seen in his own hometown. "He [Langer, editor
for the Morning News] isn't really convinced it's my town. He
doesn't see any buildings with my name on them," Hickerson
says.
(Can you spot the raving egomaniac in
the previous paragraph? Speaking of egomania, Buddy was actually
39, not 35, at the time of the story. I've caught him lying
about his age on several occasions. Pathetic.)
Hickerson says it's unclear if the News will resume his cartoon
when the political campaign season is over, or continue to ban
it from the funny pages.
(They eventually brought it back for a
brief run and then unceremoniously dumped it shortly thereafter.)
He fears that the News will continue to buy the cartoon from
his syndicate and trash it, rather than allow any other paper
to buy the syndication rights and run it.
(These fears were unwarranted because
Bud's pals at the Dallas Observer quickly picked up the rights
for The Quigmans, but even THEY dumped it after running them
for about a year or so. Frankly, I think they acquired the rights
just to annoy their conservative competition.)
"It's my hometown paper, for God's sake," Hickerson
says. "I'd like to see it in the paper."
(Wrong! Buddy really just wants other
people to see his NAME in the paper. Shortly after the Morning
News permanently pulled The Quigmans Buddy moved to California
where the cartoon is, presumably, still printed.) |
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http://forums.timerift.net
And I also have to agree with Dink that I have an editorial
they can choke on if they print Duckbumps, Rogue Agent, and
Pimp in Training but not OMGs! Those three comics suck. Oh,
and let's not forget the same 5 strips they keep recycling in
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http://www.dailygamecock.com
'Quigmans' shows distasteful humor
This letter is in response to two distasteful caricatures by
Buddy Hickerson ("Quigmans") that appeared in The
Gamecock on Sept. 9 and Sept. 27 (2002).
Mr. Hickerson's sense of humor is far from funny and is very
offensive. To make fun of a person because of his size shows
a lack of sensitivity. About 8 million to 10 million women and
1 million men suffer from eating disorders, and this is something
that needs to be taken seriously.
Promoting, Educating and Encouraging Realistic Self-Image (PEERS)
is a student organization here at USC that strives to make students
aware of eating disorders. Therefore, we are asking that caricatures
of this nature not be published in the future.
Lindsay Trammell
and PEERS members
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January 9, 2004
There are a few truly offbeat cartoons which have made syndication,
but some are so poorly drawn as to refute my claim that good
writing carries bad art. Really bad art can keep people from
reading at all. Notable here would be the Quigmans, which is
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February 11, 2005
It was crap when someone here posted the preview and its still
crap. Granted I'm one of those guys who thinks Family Guy is
only funny because EVERYONE TELLS YOU its funny. . .but really
American Dad is just awful. . .its like Quigmans style humor.
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Link
November 24, 2004
Ripleys Believe it or Not- a lot of people like it, but I think
it's boring
Garfield- not funny anymore
Prickly City- don't like it
Curtis- I never liked it
Lockhorns- It kind of says the same thing over
Quigmans- it's dumb
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http://www.ex-christian.net
I always hated one called "The Quigmans" and even
worse than that was this local Alaskan cartoon strip called
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http://joshreads.com/?p=503
(The host of this blog was inviting suggestions for comics he
might find mockable or ironicly non-humorous. The contributor,
Micedwhale, certainly knows his crummy comics.)
I am trying not to get busted by my boss so I did not check
the Chronicle or really the list on the right hand side. But
my choices would be The Quigmans, Speed Bump, Monty, Strange
Brew, Brewster Rocket, Clear Blue Water and the bizzare Ballard
Street, as far as mockery Jane’s World,Prickly City in
all its poorly drawn madness, and I am on the fence with Bob
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http://forums.comicbookresources.com
(The host of this forum was starting an online magazine and
was asking for suggestions from readers.)
Single framed cartoons would be great. Political cartoons are
fine, we expect to publish some of course, but non-politcal
single frame cartoons, i.e. the far side, would be absolutely
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http://www.reviewjournal.com
In December of 2005, the Las Vegas Review Journal held a poll
asking it's readers to name their five favorite comics. The
top ten results were:
Zits - 975
Pickles - 861
Blondie - 455
Mother Goose and Grimm - 415
Baby Blues - 406
Hagar the Horrible - 404
Drabble - 383
Buckles - 359
FoxTrot - 337
The Family Circus - 334
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http://sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com
I've known Mike Stanfill for about four years, thanks to his
BuddyWatch site (and considering the number of humorless weekly
newspaper editors who keep running the baboon-on-methadone "comic"
The Quigmans and thereby keep Buddy Hickerson off welfare, Mr.
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