The Angriest Dog in the World

Infobox Comic strip
title=The Angriest Dog in the World


caption= "It doesn't get any better than this"
creator=David Lynch
current=
status=Ended
syndicate= "L.A Reader"
comictype=print
genre=Humor
first=1983
last=1992

"The Angriest Dog in the World" is a comic strip created by film director David Lynch. First appearing in 1983, it was one of the originators of the constrained comics movement. Many readers admired the strip's absurdity, while others derided it as pretentious and frivolous.

Publication history

The idea behind "The Angriest Dog in the World" was conceived by Lynch in 1973, during a period he was experiencing feelings of great anger. First published in the "L.A Reader", the strip ran from 1983 until 1992.cite web | last =The City of Absurdity| title =The Angriest Dog In the World | url =http://thecityofabsurdity.com/dog.html ]

The strip is introduced with a small caption, sometimes omitted by newspapers:

Visually each strip is the same. The first three identical panels feature the black dog growling, straining on his chain. He is between a tree on the left and one wall of a house with a window on the right. The fourth panel is the same, but at night with a circle of light coming from the house's window.

Quotes

A word balloon appears in one or more of the panels, indicating speech from a member of one of the house's unseen family, either Bill, Sylvia, Pete, or Billy, Jr. Usually the speech is in the form of an aphorism or a non sequitur. Such sayings include:

* "If everything is real...then nothing is real as well."
* "At Cannes there is the Croisette."
* "Bill...Who is this San Andreas? I can't believe it's all his fault."
* "The only way you have exceeded my expectations is in weight."
* "Green wood shrinks."
* "The psychological origin of the idea of space, or of the necessity for it, is far from being so obvious as it may appear."
* "It must be clear even to the non-mathematician that the things in this world just don't add up to beans."
* "Unfortunately, life contains an unavoidable element of unpredictability."
* "Curiously, due to the fact that we have recently discovered that Pete is a Bonafide idiot, we can now appreciate why his arguments are not convincing."
* "It doesn't get any better than this."

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* In 2003, the strip was parodied by cartoonist Ted Rall with his comic "The Angriest Liberal in the World". [ [http://lindholm.jp/pix/clipart/tr030614.gifThe Angriest Liberal in the World, 6-12-03] ]
* In 2004, the clip-art comic "Dinosaur Comics" made a direct reference to the strip. [ [http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000393.html Dinosaur Comics, September 21 2004] ]

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External links

* [http://www.davidlynch.de/angry.html "The Angriest Dog in the World" strips] on davidlynch.de
* [http://www.lynchnet.com/angrydog/ "The Angriest Dog in the World" strips] on lynchnet.com