Subject: Re: The World's Angriest Dog....
From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago)
Date: 1991-12-24, 23:57
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

saiki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (Lauri Saiki) writes:
>> >> yonder@netcom.COM (Christopher Russell) writes:
>> >> Could somebody fill me in on this?  I had never heard of the "World's
>> >> Angriest Dog" until I read the David Lynch interview posted here.
>> >> From what I could gather from the interview, it is a comic strip that
>> >> can be found in a paper somewhere?  What paper, is a book available?
> >
> > My school newspaper had the series.  I read the first, and then
> > (sorry) forgot about it until it was mentioned here !  And that was
> > quite a while back...I would say nearly a year back.
> > If anyone wishes, I could post the address to my school's newspaper
> > and hopefully (I will check up on this) they may still have some
> > back issues so that they can send it out...or I guess
> > I could.

I'm not sure if this has been answered as our news feed has been down, but
if not, here goes:

   The actual name of the strip is "The Angriest Dog in the World" and
one nationally distributed source of it is "Comic Relief" magazine.
This monthly comics digest carries the full month's run of _Calvin & Hobbes_
_Outland_, _Doonesberry_, _Life In Hell_, and columns by _Dave Barry_,
_Ian Shoales_, _Joe Bob Briggs_, _Stephanie Brush_ and _Dr. Science_.
(Along with scads of the best of the previous months editoral cartoons.)

   For the past six or so months they have carried TADITW to universal
revilement.

   "The Angriest Dog..." is the only strip that one can truely say that
if you have seen one you have seen them all. The "artwork" is *Exactly*
the same in every issue:

     Five boxes: 
         1 - The introduction "The dog who is so angry he cannot move.
             He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl.
             Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the
             state of rigor mortis."

         2 - The first panel - The dog chained to a stake, straining
             to get to the tree. In the background is a fence, in the
             distance is a smoke-belching factory. The house is on the
             right, and the picture window through which word ballons
             float. Sometimes this is the only panel that has _any_
             dialogue.

         3 & 4 - *Exactly* the same as 2.

         5 - The same as 2, 3 & 4 except at night.

   That's it. Lynch probably *faxes* the damn thing in. Now I am a _big_
fan of Twin Peaks and feel that I am fairly attuned to the Lynchian mood
and method but this strip is, in a word, shit. The text is the sort of
thing that most folks wouldn't consider putting in their .sig line.

    If you wish to catch it in Comic Relief, The Jan. issue will be it's
last appearence. So many readers wrote in to complain that is going away.

                              Chris Williams
                                 katefans@chinet.chi.il.us

P.S. I am not associated with "Comic Relief" other than the usual way of
    purchasing it every month, thus assuring it's survival.