Sorry I don’t have a higher resolution version of this. It’s my favorite Kliban cartoon.

  • quaddo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I used to be a huge Kliban fan back in the day. I’ve still got various t-shirts with his art on them.

    From memory:

    • a cat wearing a Japanese headscarf presenting (/selling?) sushi
    • 2 karate cats getting into it; one has the other by the tail
    • a cat dressed as a sumo wrestler
    • a cat playing the guitar and singing the blues: “Love to eat them mousies / Mousies what I love to eat / Bite they little heads off / Nibble on they tiny feet”

    That last one is one of my all time faves. I would “sing” it to my friends whenever someone commented on my shirt, complete with the standard blues riff.

    Another random one (not a t-shirt): 2 cats, one says “Mao”, the other points and says “Mousie dung”. It was a very oblique, random and context-free reference to Mao Zedong. So random, I think the only point of it was to illustrate the pun. If there was a clever political reference, it was lost on me.