Tag: Jack-O-Lantern

Could this have been the very first parody of The Mindy Project? From over 10 years ago?

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Also discovered in an old Dartmouth Jack-o-Lantern: this parody of a comic strip in the campus newspaper circa the year 2000.  The actual strip was called “Badly Drawn Girl,” written and drawn by a student named Mindy Chokalingam. I wonder whatever happened to her…

Sort of Funny Girl

UPDATE: Point of clarification, the above was NOT written or drawn by Mindy. Sadly, I can’t remember which staff member came up with it…  I just thought it was interesting that her college comic strip (as characterized in this parody) bears some similarity to an excellent show currently airing on Fox…  Hmm…

UPDATE 2: Someone has created a tumblr featuring some of the original comic strips parodied here.

A (very) brief trip down memory lane…

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Just spent some time looking through old issues of the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, a college humor magazine I wrote for way back in the day.  I created a lot of stuff for them, but for some reason I never put my name on my favorite thing of all:  Rejected Smurfs (Volume 1)

It was only here you could find such unsung heroes as…

Nothing to Live For Smurf

And the dynamic duo of…

Compulsive Masturbator Smurf

Not to mention my personal favorite…

Tinkles With His Pants Down Smurf

Why aren’t the smurfs blue, you ask? Because we couldn’t afford color ink.

Bonus (re)discovery:

My absolute favorite headline from our campus news parody issue…

Moon-Earth-Greek System

(That was written at a time when students — specifically those on the college newspaper — treated every decision by the administration, no matter how insignificant, as an assault on the school’s ever-sacred fraternities and sororities)