Friday, November 19, 2010

The Angriest Dog in The World

This was a cartoon that ran in The LA Reader from between 1983 and 1992. It's author was David Lynch, and it was borne out of a time when he was experiencing great anger. Like all great artists, he used his emotions and feelings as inspiration for creation.
The cartoon has to be one of the simplest ever devised. It consists of 3 identical frames. The 4th frame is the same except it is now nighttime The only things that change are the speech bubbles from a couple inside the house, usually in the form of a non-sequitur or an aphorism or adage.  Their nonsensical palaver is heard every minute of every day by their dog, who is chained to a post. He is a very angry dog.
Have you ever experienced feelings of anger that are so great that you can barely breath? If you do, then you have something in common not only with David Lynch, but with the Angriest Dog in the World too.

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.

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