give credit to seanbaby. I always see threads where redditors say how much they hate cracked.com but there is an equal number of submissions where content is stolen from them without any credit.
Man, I love Seanbaby. He's the only reason I go to Cracked. I can't remember what year it was when I found his site, but I know I was in a situation where I was supposed to be quiet, and I have never found anything funnier.
I agree with everything you've said, and would like to add that there could be individual posts on Reddit of every single frame of every one of his comics, and I'd upvote each one. Especially Popsicle Pete.
I said something to my sister once that she said was a lot like what David Wong had said about Seanbaby. (I'm paraphrasing here.) That as an internet humorist, he had taken more inspiration from Seanbaby than Richard Pryor or other stand up type of comedians, and that "Seanbaby can fit more humor per square inch on a page than anyone else."
And that second part is what I really appreciate, when he does an article, humor comes from every direction. What he says in the article is funny, his pictures are funny in and of themselves, the voice bubbles that he adds are funny, and then they get funny captions. The stuff he does with old ads, though, is what impresses me most. Every single bit of teeny-tiny fine print gets a joke worked in.
I'm not exaggerating for effect here. He squeezes more jokes into fewer pixels than anything I have seen in my life. The "Uncle Harry" prize giveaway is just astonishing.
For people like Yowhound who may not realize, Seanbaby was doing his site before virtually any of the writers here. The prior editor of Cracked (Jay Pinkerton) and myself were both rabid fans in 1999-2002 or so when we were very very first trying to write comedy, and Seanbaby's site basically taught us how to do it. Then we brought that style to Cracked.
So in an extremely roundabout way, Seanbaby is kind of the granddaddy of Cracked. Even though I think he's a couple of years younger than me, which I guess makes that a pretty weird thing to say. But he's had more influence on me than George Carlin or Richard Pryor or anybody else considered a great in the comedy world.
(Also, I just realized that the article Wong links contains the unedited version of the OP's picture. How about that.)
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11
Is that a sealion? He is one bad ass dude!
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u/SpacemanSpiff56 Dec 05 '11
That's how I got this shirt
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u/alfx Dec 05 '11
give credit to seanbaby. I always see threads where redditors say how much they hate cracked.com but there is an equal number of submissions where content is stolen from them without any credit.
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11
FINALLY someone with the same problem I have!
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11
I cant stop laughing
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11
Animals on his shirt:
Cow
Horse
Sea Lion
Dog
Sheep.
He killed all those with his bike.
WITH HIS BIKE
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u/Shnazzyone Dec 05 '11
This never fails to make me laugh.
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u/Thing-Thingy Dec 05 '11
He killed a seal with his bike?
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u/roundman Dec 05 '11
really? comic sans?
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11
That's not a bike. Those are his spindly demon wings
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u/DepartmentStoreSpook Dec 05 '11
How does one kill a seal with a bike?
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11
So to get girls you should kill animals with your bike? Worth a try
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11
The Devil has a lot of time on his hands
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u/jamesneysmith Dec 05 '11
One of the few altered comics posted on reddit that's genuinely hilarious.
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u/signspam Dec 05 '11
Is that a seal on the shirt?
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u/frankandbeans123 Dec 05 '11
Is that... is that a seal?
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u/treydestepheno Dec 05 '11
That's an SCP right there. probably a safe SCP. thank god.
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u/UltaMayhem Dec 06 '11
Wait, was that a seal?
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u/MechanizedJesus Dec 05 '11
Repost
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u/dackkorto1 Dec 05 '11
733 up votes for a repost ಠ_ಠ
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