We love the LOLCats, Adam Koford’s wonderful cartoons where depression-era hobo felines act out the ridiculous memes of our post web 2.0 culture. And now, they’re hitting the big time! The LOLCats Sell Out will be hitting the (virtual) bookshelves in March, but the book is available now for pre-order at Amazon.
Adam Koford’s The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out is a hilarious and charming mash-up of LOLcats (those ubiquitous online photos of cats, captioned humorously and ungrammatically) with the stylings of early 20th-century American comics, such as Walt Kelly’s Pogo and George Herriman’s Krazy Kat.
These single-panel comic strips, drawn on "vintage" off-white paper and purportedly created around 1912 by Koford’s great-grandfather, Aloysius
"Gorilla" Koford, allow familiar jokes, plus references to Proust, Star
Wars, Lovecraft, classical mythology, and everything in between, to transcend their origins in a fresh, inventive way.The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out presents the very best of Koford’s online archives, alongside 30 new comics produced exclusively for this collection. An introduction by bestselling author and Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, whose "700 Hoboes" project inspired Koford to create The Laugh-Out-
Loud Cats, frames the strips for both the longtime fan and the
LOLinitiate.
If there were ever the perfect geektool, it’s the LOLCats. Check it out!
Previous LOLCat posts on GeekDad:
All the LOLCats You Could Ever Want
Robots and Monsters and Monkeys, OH MY!
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