And this would be my B. Kliban Worship page.

I  got into B. Kliban the way most people get into cocaine; somebody offered me some at a high school party, I really dug it a lot, I felt powerfully compelled to get more, and I've blown significant amounts of money maintaining the habit ever since.  Most of the books are out of print, I think, so I'm hitting eBay frequently as one by one, my copies fall apart from overuse.  

Not everybody "gets" B. Kliban.  I can't even say that I always do, in the sense of being able to explain what's funny or provocative about a particular drawing.  The ones I've selected via the links below are drawings that have struck me most profoundly one way or another, either because they're obviously hilarious, because they resonate with me in some way I can only recognize as resonance without being able to analyze and explicate, or because there are tits in them.

So.

	Click on any cover to bring up those drawings I thought the best from that book.  From some I chose a lot, from others only a few; it kinda depends on how fantastic I thought the book was.  They're loosely arranged in this table in increasing order of my own preference.

There's a pretty decent Kliban fansite at http://www.coldbacon.com/kliban.html -- in particular, follow the "People Reflect on Kliban" link, scroll down a bit, and check out the comments from "Fan Thirteen," who rather nicely elucidates (i.e., saves me the trouble of typing out) Just What It Is About Kliban.  WARNING: the phrase "quotidian absurdity" appears.

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