{"id":145,"date":"2026-05-25T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samupress.ca\/2007\/09\/14\/mad-eccentrics-or-exceptional-cartoonists\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:09:31","slug":"mad-eccentrics-or-exceptional-cartoonists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Mad eccentrics or exceptional cartoonists?"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Apatoff<\/a> does some fine posts, and really likes great pictures. I must direct any visitors here to THE MAD ECCENTRICS<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n

In the course of just 100 intense years, comics have displayed the personalities of some deeply odd people …Why is this? Perhaps the medium combines the privacy for artists to sit alone at their drawing board– a little incubation chamber for their neuroses and quirks– with a wide daily audience for the resulting work product. Or, maybe the pressure of putting out a daily strip for decades simply drove them nuts. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Apatoff does some fine posts, and really likes great pictures. I must direct any visitors here to THE MAD ECCENTRICS.  In the course of just 100 intense years, comics have displayed the personalities of some deeply odd people …Why is this? 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