Latest changes to http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/ 2004-04-09: network trouble on the list. Sorry. _______________________________________________ 0a1,448 > > Visit ibiblio > Welcome to the Doctor Fun Page > > Welcome to the Doctor Fun Page. > _________________________________________________________ > > We now return to our regularly-scheduled normalcy.. > _________________________________________________________ > > The Latest Doctor Fun Cartoon > This Week's Doctor Fun Cartoons, A Larger Version of the > Latest Doctor Fun Logo > Browse Doctor Fun cartoons and logos all the way back to 1993 > in The Doctor Fun Archive. > Some cartoons other readers liked, Never been here before? > Search Doctor Fun Captions: Mark Plaga's Doctor Fun Search > Page, Jack Leblond's Doctor Fun Search Page > Random Doctor Fun? > Doctor Fun Mirrors: Pacific Internet, Australia, Australian > Cybermalls, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, > Sweden, United States > Credits for Mirrors > Philip Newton's Doctor Fun RSS feed: Get the last 15 Doctor > Fun cartoons through RSS. > If you are a programmer-type person, you can get Doctor Fun > and zillions of other comics with Netcomics. > Nicholas Barnard's Mailing Lists: Latest Doctor Fun, Latest > Logo > Find out when these pages update, with Jonathan Ah Kit's > Doctor Fun Website Changes List. > Some Old Week of Doctor Fun, Mostafa Eldefrawy's Toonogram, > Doctor Fun Segmation > Lots of old, pre-Internet Doctor Fun stuff, including Science > Fair, and other interesting things. Readers often pick this > one. > The slightly-out-of-date Doctor Fun FAQ, News about the Doctor > Fun book > _________________________________________________________ > > News > > April 18, 2004 - Good news - the book is going to Plan Nine > tomorrow for a test printing. Bad news - it took longer to put > it together than I expected, so no work was done finishing up > the Peeps special. It will run when it runs. Nobody expects > ... the Peeps Special! In the meantime, regular cartoons > resume. > > April 7, 2004 - Doctor Fun Emergency Break! Peeps Week is > Canceled! Well, sort of. Peeps Week is delayed, ok and the > Doctor Fun studio has "gone dark" this week, to use tv talk. > This is an unplanned break. The next planned break wasn't > supposed to be until June, and a gigantic Peeps Bonus was to > be ready to go by this Sunday. So what's going on? Good > things, actually (no, I'm not having a baby). As you may have > heard, there have been rumors of a Doctor Fun book, and the > rumors are true. Unfortunately, through no particular fault of > anyone, the Doctor Fun book has been drifting about in the > Horse Latitudes for some time. But it's drifting no more, in > fact, there's a bit of a typhoon, and the final, > ready-to-go-to-press version of the book needs to be ready > next week. After all this time, of course the book is all > ready to go, right? Um, sort of. In a better, more organized > world, the book would be ready, but it's not quite there, and > I've got to get it done. Finishing the book does not involve > drawing anything new - just a lot of tedious desktop > publishing-type stuff, but stuff I need to do myself, although > since we changed the format to landscape I will probably draw > a new cover (maybe a bit punchier than the proposed one). So, > that's the way it is. I will finish out the cartoons this > week, but Doctor Fun will be off next week, and the Peeps > Special will run after the book is ready and I can finish it, > hopefully all by the end of next week, if not sooner. > Unfortunately, I don't have a supply of old cartoons on > standby ready to upload for these types of situations, so it's > cold turkey this time around. On the other hand, the world is > crying for a Doctor Fun book, right? Right. And lest you > complain too much, may I remind you that I have a day job. > > And when will the book actually be available? No firm date > yet. Plan Nine Publishing is testing some new equipment and > production methods. I would think if the test is successful, > very soon. > > April 5, 2004 - It's Peeps Week (again) with Doctor Fun! There > will be a bonus (hopefully, again) at the end of the week. > > March 29, 2004 - As I suspected, driving all over the country > last week put me on a short deadline to get the cartoons ready > for next week, so the break continues. But hey, I did put 100 > up this time around. > > March 15, 2004 - There will be a short break next week. > > March 22, 2004 - As promised, Doctor Fun is on break, this > time maybe for a week, or maybe two weeks, depending on my > schedule. In the meantime, I've uploaded not 50, but 100 > newly-scanned cartoons from 1990. > > March 15, 2004 - There will be a short break next week. > > March 8, 2004 > * Today's cartoon about the guppy has been covered before, > but you'll have to find the old one yourself. It was too > late to change it - anyway, it's important to update the > jokes to keep up with emerging penis enlargement > technologies. > * Some things are getting smaller, though. Here's a picture > of my new downsized computer setup. Here's the old setup. > * There will be a short break around the end of March. > > March 1, 2004 - that Valentine's Day sucks. In > non-celebration, I've put together a collection of 50 slightly > raunchy Doctor Fun cartoons from days past. Slightly raunchy > because this is still a PG-13 cartoon - the ibiblio merger > with Vivid Video fell through. There are plenty more - a quick > peek found more than 100 possibilities. Do I have a dirty > mind? Probably not, since it was 100 out of a couple thousand > - only a few know for sure. And finally, If I've accomplished > anything in this life, it's that something actually comes back > if you type "vagina squirrels" into google. > _________________________________________________________ > > February 3, 2004 - Wow - more news already! Thanks to Gary > Marshall of Pacific Internet, there is a new Doctor Fun mirror > in Sydney. > > Also, the new Comics Museum in Groningen, The Netherlands is > putting together an exhibit on net comics that will include > something about Doctor Fun. This is happening sometime in > April. I don't know much more than that. I've offered to come > over (on my dime) and give a talk on Doctor Fun just for fun. > Haven't heard anything back - stay tuned, and let me know if > there is any interest. > > February 2, 2004 - Doctor Fun is back. I apologize for the > lack of old cartoon updates during the break; I had one more > set and didn't have enough time to finish putting it together > and get all the new cartoons ready at the same time. In fact, > I didn't get to quite where I wanted to be, so I may make up > for it by taking a one-week break in March sometime. We'll > see. In the the meantime, the march to 520 weeks continues. > > I still have hopes of seeing at least one Doctor Fun book, but > haven't heard much back from Plan Nine Publishing. In any > event, I plan to have the book assembled by March, and after > that we'll see what happens. I still have all the favorites > and requests you sent in ages ago - thanks for those - keep > sending them if you like. > > For those who are interested in such things, I've switched > production of Doctor Fun and everything else off my Sony VAIO > Pentablet (which developed all sorts of unfixable problems) > and to my laptop (Fujitsu P5010), which is much nicer, > although I'm now drawing on a separate Wacom tablet again. > > More news... > _________________________________________________________ > > Info > > Welcome to the all new spiffed-up and friendlier Doctor Fun > page! I've thought for awhile that most of the people who > visit this page are first-time visitors, and return customers > just go for the goods. New visitors poke around, get confused > and angry, and then leave and never come back. Not if I can > help it. Welcome, friend! This all new extra-friendly and > improved Doctor Fun page is just for you! > > What's that picture at the top of the page, is that the > cartoon? > > No, that's the logo - we'll get to that later. It's just a > pretty picture to look at. > > What the [DEL: fu :DEL] heck is Doctor Fun? > > Doctor Fun is a cartoon. Not all Doctor Funs may be suitable > for children and some childlike adults. There's a new Doctor > Fun every weekday. Doctor Fun is hosted by ibiblio, the > public's library and digital archive, at the University of > North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Doctor Fun first appeared on the > Internet in 1993, and has been at ibiblio (ibiblio has had > other names, including SunSITE and Metalab) since 1994. What > Doctor Fun is, for the literal-minded, is a 640 x 480 pixel > 24-bit color JPEG file. Doctor Fun has the dubious distinction > of being the first web cartoon. Doctor Fun was not, however, > the first cartoon on the Internet. > > I still don't get it. Why do they let you ...? You're not ...? > But ...? > > Never you mind. Look - there's no reason for Doctor Fun to > even exist, but here it is. > > Thanks! Now that I know all that, I want to read the latest > Doctor Fun cartoon! > > Here is the latest cartoon. If you'd like to always link to > the latest Doctor Fun, you can use this link: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/latest.jpg > > You can get a little thumbnail of (only the artwork) the > latest cartoon, too. > > http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/thumb.jpg > > That cartoon sucked. > > That wasn't really a question, was it? If you didn't > particularly like whatever the latest Doctor Fun cartoon > happened to be, perhaps you are still Doctor Fun-curious and > would like to see some Doctor Funs that other people seem to > like a lot. Here's a mix of cartoons that other people, > perhaps like you, seemed to enjoy. These cartoons actually got > some hits, or I actually got some e-mail about them, or both. > * Here's the one about Barney. > * Here's the one about beavers. > * Here's the one about gerbils. > * Here's the one about tribbles. > * Here's the one about wasabi. > * Here's the one about vasectomies. > * Here's the one about Clusenix. > * Here's the one about Usenet. > * Here's the one about Don Knuth. > * Here's the one about The Incredible Hulk. > > Those cartoons all suck, but continue with your feeble efforts > to entertain. Show me some more. > > Now, then - those are not necessarily my favorites, either. So > I went through each year and picked out some that I thought > were either particularly funny, or particularly well-drawn. A > few I thought were both funny and well-drawn. > * Here's the one about the donuts. > * Here's the one about Godzilla. > * Here's the one about the chickens. > * Here's the one about the human cannonball. > * Here's the one about Mr. Spock. > * Here's the one about the sperm. > * Here's the one about the protozoa. > * Here's the one about the blow-up doll. > * Pick this one! > * Here's the one about the squirrel. > * Here's the one about the ice cream cones. > * Here's the one about the pinatas. > * Here's the one about the deathray. > * Here's the one about the elephants. > * Here's the one about tomatillos. > * Here's the one about watering the plants. > * Here's the one about the tapeworms. > * Here's the one about the Zamboni. > * Here's the one about the operating room. > * Here's the one about the goldfish. > * Here's another one about squirrels. > * Here's the one about Gumby. > * Here's the one about Santa. > * Here's another one about chickens. > * Here's the one about Mr. Potato Head. > * Here's the one about the weasels. > * Here's the one about the Titanic. > * Here's the one about the Muppets. > * Here's the one about the pickles. > * Here's the one about Vlad the Impaler. > * Here's the one about carrots. > * Here's the one about Rear Window. > * Here's the one about the fleas. > * Here's the one about the Enchanted Forest. > * Here's the one about Steely Dan. > * Here's the one about the Amish. > * Here's the one about noses. > * Here's the one about Mister Clean. > * Here's the one about Harry Potter. > * Here's the one about the chipmunk. > * Here's the one about the polar bear. > * Here's the one about Ultraman. > > Back to the top > > These are the cartoons with just the right balance of > 30-something sophistication and juvenile humor that I've been > searching for! Thank you, Mr. Cartoon Drawing Man! Where can I > read more? > > Still not satisfied? Why not visit the Doctor Fun Archive, > where you can browse all the old cartoons? Or Doctor Fun's > Special Cartoons Unit, where you can browse stuff that's even > older than Doctor Fun? > > However shall I peruse only this week's Doctor Fun cartoons? > > You can also see all the cartoons to date for the latest week. > If you want to link to this page, it is always: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/this-week.html > > In a shameless attempt to increase traffic, I'm introducing a > new, and perhaps temporary, feature called "Some Old Week of > Doctor Fun Cartoons". It changes every day. Link to it at: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/old-week.html > > What's the deal with the logo? I don't understand the > relationship between the unchanging dog-like character in the > Doctor Fun logo, and the actual cartoon, and stuff I don't > understand makes me mad. > > There is also a Doctor Fun logo, which should be at the top of > this page unless I screwed the link up, in which case there is > an "error". The little guy in the logo is Doctor Fun, but he > doesn't actually appear in the cartoons. We won't ever be able > to sell any cute little Doctor Fun beanie dolls or big ugly > Doctor Fun blow-up dolls unless there's some kind of cute > little mascot, and that's the best I could come up with. (To > date there haven't actually been any Doctor Fun dolls of any > size at all.) There is a larger version of the logo available, > than the one that appears on this page. Nobody ever clicks on > it, but here it is anyway. > > http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/logo.jpg > > You can get the smaller version, too. > > http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/logo-small.jpg > > And a thumbnail. > > http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/thumbl.jpg > > It would be nice if I could search the Doctor Fun captions. > Tell me I can search the Doctor Fun captions. > > Oh, yes, you can search the Doctor Fun captions two different > ways: > > Jack Leblond at Net Smart Incorporated, and Support Your > Troops has kindly provided a mirror for Doctor Fun in the form > of a search engine. You can also get a random Doctor Fun > cartoon at Jack's page. Have fun. > > Mark Plaga has created another Doctor Fun search page. Mark's > page will display a slide show of cartoons after you make your > search. Have more fun. > > It would be great if I could search more than the captions. > > Yes, it would be great, but none of that is available and it's > entirely my fault. > > Electronic postcards are so popular with the young people > these days. Can I send a Doctor Fun electronic postcard to > some teenage girls I met on IRC? > > You can send a smaller version of a selected number of Doctor > Fun cartoons as an electronic postcard at Toonogram, sponsored > by Cyber Loft. > > Toonogram was provided courtesy of Mostafa Eldefrawy, who did > all of the work. Mostafa was also kind enough to give me the > code to turn any Doctor Fun into a Toonogram, which I will do > someday. > > I should wish to receive Doctor Fun cartoons as missives in my > "electronic mail". Is there perchance a Doctor Fun mailing > list? > > You can receive the latest Doctor Fun cartoon in your e-mail > by joining Nicholas Barnard's Doctor Fun Mailing List. > > I'm far away. Not close up. Is there a Doctor Fun site closer > to me? > > These Doctor Fun mirrors might be closer to you than ibiblio. > This list is new and improved because the cartoons on these > sites actually update. There used to be more mirrors. If you > know of a mirror that isn't on this list, or want to be a > mirror, drop me a line. > * Australia - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page > from Australian Cybermalls. (Their page only updates the > latest cartoons, and looks different than this page.) > * Austria - Today's Doctor Fun and browse the Doctor Fun > files from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, > Austria. > * Germany - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from > Dr. Bernhard L. Winkler's WWW-Mirror at the University of > Bayreuth, Germany. > * Great Britain - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page > from Manchester. > * New Zealand - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page > from Nick Kean in New Zealand. > * Sweden - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from > SUNET. > * United States - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page > from the ibiblio mirror at Yale Medical School. > > Back to the top > > We're a group of former Enron billionaires trying to spend our > now-worthless stock options on foolish purchases. Where can we > buy Doctor Fun stuff? > > Nowhere that that I know of, but if you keep asking for stuff, > sometimes stuff appears. > > Are you soliciting ideas for Doctor Fun? > > No, I am not soliciting ideas for Doctor Fun. > > But, I've got an idea.. > > No. > > Is Doctor Fun Copyright (c) 2003 David Farley? > > Yes. Feel free to link to Doctor Fun, send it to your friends, > send it to your enemies, print it out and use it for toilet > paper (use the glossy photo paper so you clog the toilet real > good) or tape it to your door. But anything beyond personal > use I'd appreciate it if you'd contact me. You can use all > those file names that never change to always link to the > latest cartoon, the latest logo, the latest thumbnails, the > latest week, and that. Thanks. > > Some of those e-mail addresses on the old cartoons don't work. > That's a puzzler. > > Yes. tezcat.com, for instance, is out of business. This is the > correct address: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > More! More! I want to know more! > > Quick - before you wet your pants, read the tedious and > exhaustive Doctor Fun FAQ. > > Thanks for reading Doctor Fun! David > > Back to the top > _________________________________________________________ > > > These pages maintained, and contents copyrighted, by David > Farley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Back to the top
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