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B. Kliban

Kliban's first name was Bernard; I'm told he hated it and rarely used it.
B. Kliban
B. Kliban		 Self-portrait
Self-portrait		 Kliban In A Box
Kliban In A Box		 Cats (1975) (Inscribed with original drawing)
:: Cats (1975) (Inscribed with original drawing) :: 		Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head (1976) (signed)
:: Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head (1976) (signed) ::
Whack Your Porcupine (1977) (inscribed)
:: Whack Your Porcupine (1977) (inscribed) :: 		Tiny Footprints (1978) (signed)
:: Tiny Footprints (1978) (signed) :: 		Catcalendar Cats (1981)
Catcalendar Cats (1981)		 Luminous Animals (1983) (inscribed with small drawing)
:: Luminous Animals (1983) (inscribed with small drawing) :: 		Original cartoon (1975)
Original cartoon (1975)

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Joel Mielke 11-Jul-2009 04:51
Jackie's right. He always signed "B" but went by "Hap."
Roy D 11-Dec-2006 11:08
Greg Davis' comments has it exactly right, is what I meant to say.
Roy Delgado 11-Dec-2006 11:05
Christopher Wheeler has it exactly right.
.Roy Delgado ... 30-Nov-2006 12:48
Hap Kliban was a true genius.....As is Sam Gross AND Russell Meyers . . all, along with Gary Larson, cut from the same cloth . . This bunch really influenced a lot of today's cartoonists.
Greg Davis 21-Sep-2006 08:30
B. Kilban's Cat books were very popular in the Northwest in the later 1970's. They were a single panel mixture of note-book sketches and straight forward cartoons. Many of the sketches were beyond the pop press of the day. For example: one cartoon was illustrated and captioned, "dirty fat man sits on presidents face." Another showed a map of Europe and North America with Europe saying something akin to "Hey put your Florida in my Gibrator." A reference to Florida as a phallic appendage. May cartoons featured bare-breasted women. At the time, these cartoons were somewhere between dirty cartoons and pop cartoons. They reflected the changing times, where sexual innuedo and outrage of the post-Nixon-vietnam era had made it to the middle class; not in the papers, but in a series of popular books such as these.
Gary Larson of the 'Far Side' cartoons were obviously influenced by B. Kliban. He clearly read the works of B. Kliban. B. Kliban's cartoon "Roger Wilco" are clearly mirrored in Larson's "Aren't you a stranger in these parts?" The premise of the two single-panel cartoons are completely different, however, the illustrations of a side view of a geeky man's head are remarkably similar.
The pop appeal of B. Kliban was the off-beat drawings, but those like myself read his books hoping to find more funny cartoons instead of cute drawings. This hope was found in Gary Larson's 'Farside' where every cartoon was a gag. That may sound confusing, but if you see any B. Kliban book compared to Gary Larsen's books it becomes immediately apparent.
Christopher Wheeler04-Aug-2005 14:08
Done. Thanks for the info.
Jackie Estrada 03-Aug-2005 20:44
Can you change that to "B. Kliban"? He never went by Bernard and hated that name.
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