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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

Tor's Nightmare

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Tor's Nightmare

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 10 months ago
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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Thats not Tor. That’s Uncle Fester!!!

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 months ago

      Tor predates Uncle Fester what with him having been born in 1903 and Charles Addams having been born in 1912.

      Also, he actually existed.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        The comic is dated 1985?

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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          And yet Tor Johnson still existed.

          • MajorHavoc
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            10 months ago

            Neat! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Johnson

            Relevant:

            “Johnson was featured extensively in the early work of cartoonist Drew Friedman, where Johnson was depicted as “Tor”, a slow-witted, white-eyed lummox based on Johnson’s persona in Ed Wood’s films.[9] The first of the one-page comics, “Tor Johnson at Home”, was published in a 1981 issue of Robert Crumb’s Weirdo,[10] and the original artwork was purchased by television writer and producer Eddie Gorodetsky.[11]”

            Not at all relevant, but cool:

            “A latex mask based on Johnson’s face, sculpted by Pat Newman for Don Post Studios, is described as “the best-selling Halloween horror mask of the late 1960s-early 1970s”.[12]”

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              Max used the mask in a scene where he was kidding around with his wife in the first Mad Max movie, but I can’t find a still.

          • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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            Didn’t know it was a real person until I googled more!

    • lessthanluigi@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I know right? I mean, there isn’t even an Onion link there.

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    10 months ago

    From a book called “Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental”. Great stuff!

    https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/any-similarity-to-persons-living-or-dead-is-purely-coincidental

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      Yep. Been a Drew Friedman fan for years.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    Ed Wood: Wait! I just had the best idea for a film ever!

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    10 months ago

    /c/nottheonion

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