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When I said to check out explodingdog.com, friends were afraid they'd find a disturbing fetish page. But they were soon hooked on the interactive, hilarious strangeness of cartoonist Sam Brown.
Brown whips up three to five single-frame panels each day, playing off titles that fans submit via email (that's the interactive part). His spare style lends a slightly distended look to his stick-figure characters, but his 'toons are funnier than anything you'll find in the Sunday paper. Part of Brown's success stems from his ability to ferret out the best email entries - phrases like "Carpet fuzz. It made me what I am today." Below the caption he shows a contented figure in a bare room, stuffing handfuls of fuzz into his line-straight mouth.
Brown, who often courts the bizarre, follows in The Far Side tradition of confounding readers' expectations. He illustrates "I can finally reach my toes" with a (toeless) man straining to reach a jar labeled Toes high on a shelf. Some panels will test your sense of humor, but you'll laugh despite yourself.
explodingdog.com: www.explodingdog.com.
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