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David Lynch has died, aged 78.
Lynch was the consummate multi-hyphenate.
(Image credit: David Lynch / Dark Horse Comics)
He was also, for longer than you probably realize, a cartoonist.
Despite that impressive nine-year run, precious little of the material is publicly available today.
He cannot eat.
(Image credit: David Lynch / Dark Horse Comics)
He cannot sleep.
He can just barely growl.
Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis."
(Image credit: David Lynch / Dark Horse Comics)
In the fifth panel the sky is blacked out with night.
They monologue, tell jokes, or simply make cryptic non-sequiturs.
“I made life kind of miserable for people around me at certain times…
So, anger the memory of the anger is what does the Angriest Dog.
Not the actual anger, anymore.
It’s sort of a bitter attitude toward life.
I don’t know where my anger came from, and I don’t know where it went.”
Who are these people?
Why is this dog in such a frenzy?
What are his owners even talking about, if anything at all?
There are, of course, no definitive answers here.
Despite this, the comic plays a strange sort of magic trick on the brain.
The timing of the dialogue is precise and is often what lands the punchline to the jokes.
“It doesn’t get any better than this!”
someone says, as the dog practically explodes with incandescent fury.)
Still, there has been a steady micro-industry of quality Lynch-related books published over the last few years.
Many stars havepaid heartfelt tributes to David Lynch.
