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	Hail Doofus: Two-Handed Man interviews Rick Altergott
		Doofus' dad dies soon afterwards of a heart attack or something, and Doofus grows up living with his mother, and a lot of insurance money, presumably, which is the current situation.
		Doofus is supposed to be well-meaning, but he often acts inappropriately out of ignorance and lack of social grace.
		I tend to think that they have been co-opted by the politically-correct liberal media which force rules and quotas onto everything, and simply censor anything that doesn't fit their set agenda, a practice that is institutionalized to a much worse degree in the rest of the average newspaper.
	www.twohandedman.com /Interviews/Altergott/Altergott.html (2844 words)

	OJR article: The Online Comics Gap
		This leads inevitably to the prospect of "a la carte" service for particular comics; this is one area where that old hobgoblin "micropayments" still gets a respectful hearing, and many observers point to the success The New York Times has had in getting people to pay for its crossword puzzle as a model.
		The three-panel comic strip is not an art form native to the web, and the greatest challenge in adapting it may be that readers bring different expectations and habits to online readership.
		If there is one aspect in which newspapers largely have managed to reproduce their comic strip experience online, it may be this: Newspaper editors have famously tended to view comics as being, at best an annoying afterthought.
	www.ojr.org /ojr/business/1023834984.php (2120 words)

	Doofus (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Doofus is an alternative comic by Rick Altergott about two foolish creeps, Doofus and his pal Henry Hotchkiss, and their adventures in Flowertown U.S.A. Admirers of Doofus praise it as one of the 20th century's last great humor strips.
		Doofus has appeared in various publications, including the Seattle Stranger, Heavy Metal, and comic books published by Fantagraphics Books such as Doofus, Doofus Omnibus, Raisin Pie and later issues of Hate.
		This page was last modified 05:52, 9 June 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doofus (116 words)

	The Washington Monthly
		Actually the doofus dad is just a small part of a bigger issue -- the doofus guy in general, which leads to my pet peeve with sitcoms: doofus guys with hot wives/girlfriends.
		Doofus Dad, perhaps it's just that a lot of guys are not as in control of their lives as they're brought up being told they ought to be and so while a caricature there's a little bit of themselves that many guys see in doofus dads.
		Thus, counter-intuitively, the rise of the "Doofus Dad" should be viewed as the triumph of male authority, not the cultural undermining of it.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2005_07/006683.php (13589 words)

	Doofus: February 2005 Archives
		I was going to get more Doofus up today, but I'm fighting off a horrible cold.
		At this rate I think we may see new strips up by the weekend, but don't count on it.
		For the next week or so, Doofus will be on hiatus as I deal with real life.
	www.thegline.com /doofus/2005/02 (264 words)

	Comic Book Galaxy - Pushing Comix Forward Since 2000.
		Doofus doesn't elevate the artform or change my life or make me see the true potential of comics.
		Doofus and his pal Henry Hotchkiss are like some sort of idealized, panty-huffing village idiots.
		The Doofus Omnibus is well worth reading, filled with irony and satire and as easy to grasp as a wisp of smoke -- or the scent of yesterday's panties pulled from the bottom of Miss Juniper's hamper when she's not looking.
	www.comicbookgalaxy.com /doofusomnibus_review.html (383 words)

	uExpress.com: Maggie Gallagher by Maggie Gallagher -- (12/14/2004) DOOFUS DADS DO 'SPANGLISH'
		Deborah Clasky is an extreme (and extremely amusing) parody of a neurotic suburban housewife, but anyone who has lived in the bobo regions of America has seen a few women who resemble her: They dominate family life with their emotional and logistical demands while bemoaning the husband's emotional insensitivities.
		The doofus dad drama in "Spanglish" is embedded in a classic immigration narrative, which is also remarkable for taking (for the first time I can remember) the parents' point of view.
		In "Spanglish," the Mexican mother, an ancient stereotype of devotion, meets her modern-day mate, the Anglo doofus dad, who gives his all for his kids and for a wife who may not even notice.
	www.uexpress.com /maggiegallagher?uc_full_date=20041214 (582 words)

	Rick Altergott
		Altergott is a master craftsman with a compulsion for the strange; his most famous character, Doofus — a panty-huffing hillbilly with a Dutchboy hairdo and cornfed sensibility — is the star of this show.
		Doofus Omnibus collects almost every Doofus story from the character’s long history, and features an introduction (of sorts) by Ghost World author Daniel Clowes.
		Doofus is the most dismaying comic book hero you'll ever see.
	www.fantagraphics.com /artist/altergott/altergott.html (532 words)

	Doofus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As a member of the Junior Woodchucks Doofus specializes in out-of-the-ordinary merit badges.
		Having found a glowing chunk of alien meteorite he once wore it like a charm and was imbued with superhuman powers of strength and flight, calling himself Super-Doo.
		Doofus was a semi-regular on Disney's "DuckTales." (see: DTA).
	users.cwnet.com /xephyr/rich/dzone/hoozoo/doofus.html (117 words)

	The Simpsons Archive: The Guide to Bongo Comics
		The writers and artists at Bongo definitely know their comics history: Radioactive Man is full of references to and parodies of especially superhero comics through the ages.
		All these are what in the comics world apparently are known as different "universes", and in a parody of sales-boosting tactics by comic book publishers, Itchy And Scratchy #3, Simpsons #5 and Bartman #3 form a continuous story called "When Bongos Collide".
		In the U.S., there are plenty of comic stores and mail-order firms that have back issues available, and here in Australia there are also a few good stores in the capital cities, although prices for first issues of any Bongo title here tend to be quite steep - around 10 to 15 dollars Australian.
	www.snpp.com /guides/bongoint.html (1182 words)

	PopImage
		For a book hyped as the most controversial Marvel comic of the year (scoping out the "truth" that the man originally chosen to be Captain America was fl) this book has only characters and plot - and quite a dense one at that, too.
		Doofus graduates to his own book here (or half a book, anyway) and it's bizarre and pretty amusing.
		With articles covering Joe Matt and the DOOM PATROL, as well as extremely lengthy interviews with Andi Watson and Steve Rude (with killer artwork for both), this is an especially entertaining issue.
	www.popimage.com /content/viewnews.cgi?newsid1039540456,70142, (802 words)

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		I was thoroughly embarrassed by this comic when it first came out.
		I was fourteen years old, and while I'd faithfully been buying DC Comics since 1961, this travesty of a cover was further evidence that the folks up at National Periodical Publications were losing their grasp on what the audience wanted.
		It's almost adorable in it's total dopiness, indicative not only of what DC thought of the kids plunking down their pennies for a four color thrill back in '67, but also what men thought of women in that not so bygone era.
	www.hembeck.com /Covers/Detective371.htm (321 words)

	Amazon.com: The Doofus Omnibus: Books: Rick Altergott,Kim Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Doofus, a fat former Greek tricked out in straw boater and Beatle haircut over a permanent five-o'clock shadow, looks his name, and his scarecrow-like pal Henry Hotchkiss looks like it, too.
		His pal Henry Hotchkiss (who lives in a shack near Doofus' backyard) is a sub-normal, slack-jawed dope who shares with Doofus many of these proclivities, with the exception that he's the stupid one.
		The comic is carefully rendered in a style not unlike that of MAD magazine legend Jack Davis, giving it a unique, almost dated feel.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/156097494X?v=glance (1163 words)

	Unlikely but fun romances I'd like to see - Captain Comics Round Table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rogers, of course, was far too clean-minded, upstanding and whatnot to notice the admiring looks he was getting from the only chick in the room.
		(Doofus!) But there I was as a boy, hormones just kicking in, and I'm thinking, "Gee whillikers! They actually live in the same house and are adults and can do what they want!" Several naughty thoughts sprung from this speculation, which I'm sure you can all manufacture for yourselves.
		Rogers would likely have been far too noble and self-sacrificing to act on her attraction (doofus!), but for the sake of the team he might have had to "let her down easy."
	www.captaincomics.us /forums/index.php?showtopic=908 (2528 words)

	Fantagraphics July Solicitations
		This wide-ranging little book spotlights over 100 comics strips, comic books, and graphic novels to feature fl characters from all over the world over the last century, and the result is a fascinating journey to, if not enlightenment, then at least away from the horrendous caricatures of yore.
		Each strip, comic, or graphic novel is spotlighted via a compact but instructive 200-word essay and a representative illustration.
		Altergott is a master craftsman with a compulsion for the strange; his most famous character, Doofus -- a panty-huffing hillbilly with a Dutchboy hairdo -- is the star of this show.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /news/104839972756427.htm (977 words)

	Unca Cheeks Silver Age Comics Site: SlowComicsJournal
		A close, close second on the list of Reasons To Laud and Appreciate THE COMICS JOURNAL is the magazine's steadfast and unwavering social conscience; a rare (and most welcome) quality, in the (frequently) short-sighted and self-serving environs of the mainstream American comics industry.
		I was reminded of that sketch while I read Marvel Comics' ALPHA FLIGHT #106, in which two pin-headed and thunder-thighed super-heroes knock each other through skyscrapers while arguing the politics of sexual orientation in the age of AIDS.
		His artwork, like that of all the hundreds of other artists who have received their pages back from the publishers, is his morally and by industry practice for the past twelvve years.
	www.geocities.com /cheeksilver/comicsjournal.htm (5778 words)

	COMICON.com: 2005 Harvey Award Winners up @ The Beat
		Eisner and Kurtzman are in my personal top 5 pantheon of comics creators (along with Herge' and Tezuka, the fifth spot changes intermittently) so it's not like I think one is good and the other is bad.
		The fact that he was able to be a good businessman and create great comics is something that he's been lauded for over and over.
		When Eisner was asked what he thought he would be remembered for in comics, he said, "I guess the most important thing I think I’ve done is to prove this medium is capable of so much more than two mutants trashing each other.
	www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=003880 (2238 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Doo Dads" to "Doom of"
		The Blank in the Comics strip collection includes a file of one or more daily comic strips related to this keyword or topic.
		Annotation of: Superman at Fifty, the Persistence of a Legend, by Dennis Dooley and Gary Engle, in "Science Fiction Comics" / Peter M. Coogan.
		This is not the same villain as in Yellow Claw Comics.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/drri/doo.htm (6628 words)

	Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Wire
		From Marvel to DC to Image and others, his hand writing and fonts can be found on hundreds of comics each and every year.
		Take for example, the character of Doofus, a guy who lives his life inside his theme park costume and dates the sister character.
		Larsen didn't want to insert a bunch of ads at the back of his comic, he wanted content, so he gave his letterer two pages a month to run with.
	www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=2844 (1484 words)

	The Comics Journal: Interviews
		One thing that is really striking about your work is that it has a certain affinity with Rick Altergott's Doofus, in that both of them seem very obsessively rendered where it seems that the artist put a tremendous amount of effort into making people look wrong.
		Having that sense of honor and humility in comics is astounding.
		I was doing comics for Heavy Metal, which was the next place after Screw in the early '90s and then that ended.
	www.tcj.com /244/i_kupperman.html (1298 words)

	Dan Clowes Mini Comics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		All of the NE comics are stapled and tend to be larger than the Earwax minis.
		Doofus 1 is the only mini to be collected.
		Covers: The cover art is never signed, and some of the covers appear to have the title logo/lettering done by one person and the illustration by another.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~Public/clowes/minicomics.htm (1535 words)

	"GS Archives - Aces High" the Marvelous Patric & Friends
		We were at this point where Dana Kelly was telly Holly Jackson just how he went from mild-mannered doofus to someone with amazing super powers who was ripping the heads off of people he deemed "evil".
		The culmination of this was when Dana got involved in a kidnapping gone horribly wrong, resulting in the mother murdering her own son.
		During this confrontation, the woman would explain to Dana he had no evidence of any wrong doing, and that she, as an incredibly wealthy and corrupt individual, owned most of the legal system anyway.
	www.graphicsmash.com /comics/aceshigh.php (608 words)

	PopImage
		And, in the past three years, they have improved their production processes to produce simply some of the most elegant comics and illustrative books available anywhere (their Krigstein retrospective, Interviews with Jack Kirby, Quarterly Special editions).
		The process of deformation by which the major features of the earth's crust, including continents, mountains, ocean beds, folds, and faults, are formed.
		I've read all this stuff before (except for the all-too-brief new strips) and it's as hysterical as it was the first time.
	www.popimage.com /content/viewnews.cgi?newsid1054410636,30965, (1931 words)

	Dick May or May Not Read Your Blog
		The Comics Journal has been way out on the fringes of comic book discussion for as long as I can remember, in large part because it spent years only covering material that was way out on the fringes of comics.
		Putting external pressure on the corporate parent is one of the easiest paths towards achieving the goal of more woman-friendly DC comics, but Krause almost seems to be keeping her fingers crossed that the mainstream media won't pick up on this story.
		Any doofus can name their dog or cat after supporting characters from Popeye, but it takes a special type of fan to look a newborn baby in the face and call him/her "Wimpy." We'll tell you which comic strip-derived baby names are the hottest this year, from Officer Pupp to Nice Pete.
	dickhatesyourblog.blogspot.com (5848 words)

	Mile High Comics: Fantagraphics: DOOFUS
		To view and order the issues and variants of this title, see DOOFUS in the Mile High Comics iStore.
		Mile High Comics is a registered trademark of Mile High Comics, Inc.
		All scans are exclusive property of Mile High Comics, Inc.
	www.milehighcomics.com /comicindex/Title-DOOFUS-by-Fantagraphics.html (70 words)

	The Doofus Omnibus, The House at Maakies Corner (ADD Review)
		The Doofus Omnibus, The House at Maakies Corner
		Ultimately, I have to consign Millionaire to that rarefied region of the creative world occupied by folks like Hunter S. Thompson, about whom my friend Marshall points out it must be much more fun reading about than actually spending time with.
		It's a twisted, perverse work by an unpleasant man, but somehow it all works to create staggeringly good comics.
	simpleweblog.com /comics/addreviews/reviews_archive_121302.php (774 words)

	The Comics Journal: Reviews
		The story, such as it is, focuses on bizarre digital creatures having discussions that alternate mundane inquiries about a "system" with the tone of heated philosophical debate.
		The result is an evocative absurdist drama combining a comically pedantic New Age inflection with hilariously low-tech art and delineation.
		The story is a sad tale of love, happiness, cruelty and despair, as seems the comic, but in a different way.
	www.tcj.com /232/r_hitlist.html (883 words)

	Comics.com - Comics Update
		The first comic strip I attempted was essentially "Wizard of Id" set in a zoo, with the zoo manager an irritable little dictator and his head zookeeper a lanky doofus.
		Drawing a comic strip is a lot harder than doing the editorial cartoons.
		Ferd'nand is the classic "silent" comic strip, starring a wide-eyed cherubic mime, his wife, son and dog.
	www.comics.com /comics_update/0203.html (971 words)

	The Comics Reporter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Destroyer Duck #1, for Kirby's willingness to volunteer his time for creators' rights, and for the unsettling way his art mixed with Steve Gerber's own brand of surrealism (although it's in a later issue of Destroyer Duck where a spine peels away from a corpse and moves on its own...!).
		A special award should go to John Morrow and The Jack Kirby Collector, for unearthing all the Kirby comics that have yet to be published, like Soul Love, In the Days of the Mob #2, the second and third stories featuring the Dingbats of Danger Street, etc. We can dream of a collection...
		Also, I'd feel terrible if I didn't mention that "comic" he did for Anything Goes (the one with the Frank Miller cover).
	www.comicsreporter.com /index.php/briefings/commentary/38 (1288 words)

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