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dougs510

Social climber
down south
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 25, 2008 - 11:18pm PT
JayBro... Anybody... Does anyone remember who did the funny cartoons about climbing a few years back... Somebody has to remember. We need more HUMOR :)
D.
Basilisk

Ice climber
New Hampshire
Sep 25, 2008 - 11:55pm PT
Always keep a few on hand!

First of all, is this who you mean?
http://www.jamiegivens.com/

or this guy?










Alright, I did my part :)
Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Sep 26, 2008 - 12:07am PT
Valley Commuter?

http://web.archive.org/web/20040919054856/http://www.developer360.com/

(Episode 1 is saved on the archive; others seem to be missing)
Basilisk

Ice climber
New Hampshire
Sep 26, 2008 - 12:26am PT
Lots of nice topos on that site!
Jaybro

Social climber
wuz real!
Sep 26, 2008 - 04:43am PT
yer one to twalk...
Captain...or Skully

Big Wall climber
Nunya, America
Sep 26, 2008 - 08:06am PT
Yikes!!! Hey, Tami, you can tell the 'poseurs', They are a strangely set bunch.


How's them poodles? Arf.......
philo

Trad climber
boulder, co.
Sep 26, 2008 - 10:47am PT
Doug510 here is a link to a previous "climbing toons" thread.
Did you miss it or are you saying those aren't funny?


http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=656000&tn=40
snyd

Sport climber
Lexington, KY
Sep 26, 2008 - 02:47pm PT
perswig

climber
Sep 27, 2008 - 08:54pm PT
To English? I thought they were talkin' Cannuck? WTF? Please advise.
Trippel40

Social climber
CO
Sep 27, 2008 - 10:38pm PT
ROTFLMAO - Who needs cartoons with stories like that! You are my hero, Tami!
AndySan Diego

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Sep 28, 2008 - 01:59am PT
If anyone has a copy of "10 Ways to be HardMan", please post it.
That was the funniest Climbing Cartoon I have ever seen.
goatboy smellz

climber
स्कन्ध, co
Sep 29, 2008 - 07:45pm PT
Don't listen to that Tami chick, she's a heart breaker.
Keeps us waiting around for what?...nothing...nada...zip.
It's not fair I tell yah!

dougs510

Social climber
down south
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 12:24am PT
Just checked back in... Yeah, "Valley Commuter"... that was awesome. SOMEBODY BRING EM' BACK... but those posted here are totally awesome too.... man, we gotta make a book.

Philo,
Totally not what I was aludeing to... cool cartoons of your's though...

We were gonna try and sell some on t-shirts for the SEC here at one time... kinda fell through.
Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Sep 30, 2008 - 12:49am PT
Andy,

> If anyone has a copy of "10 Ways to be HardMan", please post it.
> That was the funniest Climbing Cartoon I have ever seen.

[Edit:] I scanned them once, but don't have permission to reproduce. They are in Games Climbers Play.
GDavis

Trad climber
Sep 30, 2008 - 12:54am PT
Sweet jebus! Well found basilisk!
tooth

Mountain climber
B.C.
Sep 30, 2008 - 08:19am PT
Amazing Basalisk. I love the guy and his pet.
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho
Sep 30, 2008 - 11:22am PT
Around 1981 I met a french fellow in the valley that had a book of french climbing cartoons that were quite good. The one I rememeber most was the drawing of a hand that had the index finger and pinky curling in opposition to the middle two fingers. The result was the fingers acted like cams on a Friend.

Ideal for offsized cracks...


Was I still tripping or does anyone else recall that cartoon or the book it was in?
Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Sep 30, 2008 - 03:13pm PT
Tami,

Good point - I have removed them.
dougs510

Social climber
down south
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 08:02pm PT
Considering a book of climbing cartoons:

A "Fools Effort" may be a bit of an overstatement, considering I'm reading one of John Longs illustrated books (Close Calls). Also, let's not forget Duane Raleigh's illustrated book, "Knot's and Ropes for Climbers". I think there are many areas where illustrations (e.g. cartoons) are appropriate and will sell, when marketed properly. Not to mention screen prints for t-shirts to sell at environmental fundraisers. Amongst diverse other ideas which have yet come to fruition.

D.
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Oct 1, 2008 - 02:20am PT
Damn Tami, you sure know how to make a guy laugh till his spleen pops.
Riotch

Trad climber
Kayenta, Arizona
Oct 1, 2008 - 08:56am PT
Funny!

http://www.jibjab.com/view/54406
philo

Trad climber
boulder, co.
Oct 1, 2008 - 09:53am PT
Tami is right about "making it" as a cartoonist. It would be easier to become an astronaught or play for the NFL.
There are many more positions in those fields than there are jobs for cartoonists. For the lucky few who get to inhale the rarified air of syndication life is easy street. As long as you can continue to be fresh, funny and creative every day for the rest of your life. The few, like Schultz and Trudeau, who have truly "made it" and are internationaly syndicated are amazingly rare talents. The freelance 'toonist has to compete with the syndications that newspapers subscribe to. The papers can use all they want for a flat monthly fee. If they do have room for one of yours the are unlikely to pay more than $10 - $15 per which is about what it costs them to run Doonesbury for a day.
Now for Trudeau who is printed in over 3000 papers everyday that is some good coin. But for us little folk $10 doesn't buy diapers or put gas in the pencil sharpener.
So many of us would be 'toonists have realized this paradigm and are happy when somebody is just tickled enough to hang one of drawings on the fridge. Just big kids with nice crayons I quess.
philo

Trad climber
boulder, co.
Oct 1, 2008 - 05:41pm PT
"I have to admit that for 30 yrs I've been drawing cartoons c'os I really like to laff at my own jokes".

That is really why I do mine as well.

Tami Your work is really wonderfull!
TradIsGood

Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
Oct 1, 2008 - 07:42pm PT
You can kind of understand guys stealing from banks...

'cause they have no money.


But who would steal intellectual property?!

:-)
tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Oct 1, 2008 - 07:59pm PT
Never published but I recall a cartoon a friend drew in our German class in high school. We had this game where when the teacher would ask someone to read something outloud, the rest of us would try to get the student to laugh. The teacher would turn his back to the class, and then when the student was busting up the teacher would turn around and say, "Was is loss?"

Anyhow, the cartoon I remember was a climber with exagerated steroid type physique, anatomically correct down to his schlong that resembled a muscled baguette.

For the published stuff, Tami was tops.
tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Oct 2, 2008 - 02:42pm PT
Tami,

Sorry it came off that way. It was meant back when Climbing WAS a climbing magazine, your cartoons were great.

I'm sure your toons ARE still great. Can you post any of them with getting into a legal battle with yourself 8~)
dougs510

Social climber
down south
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2008 - 07:33pm PT
Well, that sux Tami. I thought you'd of done more $$ than that.... show's what I know. I reckon I'm an idealist.... my best class in collage was philosophy, but nobody pays to debate logic on the corner anymore... guess ya gotta be a politician.... but no thanks to that one.

Anyhow, happy toons to you!
D.
philo

Trad climber
boulder, co.
Oct 3, 2008 - 09:37am PT
Tami that was hillarious. Having worked on the ad pages for more than a few small mountain town papers I really related to this piece.
I loved how you could learn to climb 5.14 in just six days but it would take six weeks to become a retail mountain store "floor warrior".
" British expedition uber-survivor Deep Slot". Classic!
MisterE

Trad climber
My Inner Nut
Oct 3, 2008 - 01:40pm PT
Mmm...chocolate and Scotch...I'll have the Dagobaga xocolatl and the Glenfiddich Reserve, please.

Remeber what Matt Groenig said: "Copyright infringement is the sincerest form of flattery"

*cackle*
roystencrow

Sport climber
WA
Jul 21, 2015 - 12:43pm PT
BASE104

Social climber
An Oil Field
Jul 22, 2015 - 08:50am PT
The underground cartoons that were drawn in Camp 4 were just hilarious.

Not for general consumption, though.
wstmrnclmr

Trad climber
Bolinas, CA
Jul 22, 2015 - 09:29am PT
Found some great threads from the past lately. This could be fun. Almost makes me want to participate again. Found this laying on a table in Bishop........
Mark Force

Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
Jul 22, 2015 - 10:03am PT
Thanks, Tami, for all the great 'toons!"
"Time to let out an a avalanche poodle" is part of my weird little groups' lingo.

Are there any of your t-shirts around?
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Jul 22, 2015 - 10:06am PT
BooDawg

Social climber
Butterfly Town
Sep 7, 2016 - 05:58pm PT

The New Yorker has a weekly caption contest. Here's a recent winner:

i-b-goB

Social climber
Wise Acres
Sep 7, 2016 - 09:46pm PT
WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
Jan 18, 2017 - 09:43pm PT
OnsightOrGoHome

Trad climber
Fair Oaks
Jan 18, 2017 - 11:43pm PT
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Jan 19, 2017 - 10:20am PT
I have the original for that one on the bedroom wall, above my dresser.
Mark Force

Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
Jan 19, 2017 - 07:06pm PT


Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Jan 19, 2017 - 08:05pm PT
Many a fine cartoon here...

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/553782/Sheridan-Anderson-Appreeshiashin-Thread
Mark Force

Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
Jan 19, 2017 - 09:21pm PT

Best climbing cartoons ever!

Yes, Sheridan, yer awsum to but Tami...she's makes me chortle-snicker-guffaw-snort my damn beer up my nose and I'm still laughing with my beer all over my t-shirt!

Love that cartoon. You're due credit is on it now. Sorry I didn't get it on there straight up.

You should have the copyright on the two maybe funniest two words ever stuck together - "avalanche poodle." You'd be effin' wonderfulstinkin'rich. Whenever I share it skiing, as in "Oh sh#t, we gotta send out the "avalanche poodle" before we go out there...hey, who's the "avalanche poodle" today?"

If you have any "Climbing Tales of Terror" or any other of your books I'll buy a copy each and add another dollar. Gotta get 'em before the 'merkin dollar caves and it'll cost me more than I got.
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Jan 20, 2017 - 08:56pm PT
And YES!

The only Avalanche Poodle photo I have been able to find on Google Images.

Such a Noble beast.


Thanks Tami, for the wonderful concept.
Peater

Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
Jan 20, 2017 - 11:56pm PT
I was just thinking.........................






there............... it happened again.







R. Krumb
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Jan 21, 2017 - 08:08am PT
Vulgarian Digest classic from the early 1970's.

Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jan 21, 2017 - 11:44am PT

In German: Klettern ist die Hölle: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Klettern-ist-die-Holle-von-Tami-Knight-1993-/332096426788?hash=item4d527d5324:g:nn4AAOSwPhdVEqXV
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Aug 22, 2017 - 09:31am PT

Eiger, Mönch und Junfrau

Grüss von oben

Brüll Affe
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Aug 24, 2017 - 11:31am PT

Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Aug 24, 2017 - 06:28pm PT
No one beats Samivel for funny climbing cartoons
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