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MORE UNLIKELY LOVE

UNLIKELY LOVE

FREE WINE

The Fusco Brothers are included in this traveling exhibit, along with 134 other comic strips. It kicks off next week in Jackson, Mississippi. (When I kick off, personally, I hope it's in Jackson, Mississippi.)

If the exhibit comes to your town, my advice is to go on opening day and ask the gallery attendant where the Fusco strip is and where the wine table is, though not in that order. The OPPOSITE order. Then, pour yourself a plastic cup of Inglenook and check out Fusco. It will get funnier with every sip. Whether you stay to check out the other 134 comics is up to you. That would involve a lot of Inglenook.

SPOILER ALERT: In case the exhibit doesn't come your way, or if you can't remember attending it afterward because of an Inglenook blackout, here's the Fusco strip that's included in the show:

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BUCKET CARTOON OF THE DAY

THE PERQUISITES OF ART

There's something screwy going on with the canvas stretchers in this cartoon, but I don't care.

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BITTERNESS IS A DISH BEST SERVED PIPING HOT

MORE HOOP HUMOR

LOW SELF-ESTEEM

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SMILING BUTTOCKS SUNDAY

SCATOLOGY SATURDAY

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ENNUI IS A DISH BEST SERVED TEPID

THAT EXPLAINS IT

This cartoon originally appeared in Narrative magazine.

MY BIOPIC

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FILTH IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

JAZZ FILTH

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BLUE LEATHER, PINK MALLARD

WOOFER

WHERE DO CARTOONISTS GET THEIR IDEAS?

I've been asked this question many times, and I'm always evasive about it, but here, finally, is the answer, told visually:

And here's the resulting cartoon, in which the original real-life conversation is quoted verbatim, and drawn almost photographically from memory, by a trained professional:

Sometimes the cartoonist will throw his realistic rendering skills out the window and draw goofy, primitive characters to speak the lines, getting both a cartoon and a comic strip out of the original stolen moment:

This is known as "double-dipping," and cartoonists do it when they think no one is paying attention.

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WHEN COFFEE IS NOT ENOUGH

DARK HOUR OF THE BUCKET

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