The Bean Straw: Non-Flying Objects

by David Hammons

This is a cartoon book with 125 single panel illustrations of the strange and fanciful. You will see the mundane twisted into the quirky; the rational gives way to the hypothetical: What if Dracula bit a bear? What would a cat prefer for a scratching post? What happens if you have an apple-shaped head, and you walk into an archery club meeting? How do slugs discipline their children? How can Jedi mind tricks best be used in an office meeting? What would dogs have in their reading library? What kind of music do cows listen to? If you have spent your life searching the earth for the answers to these questions, then welcome to the bizarre and funny world of The Bean Straw.

Genres: Humor, Comedy

89 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 25, 2007

Reviews

[Vaishali · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lol... Dark, quirky comics reminiscent of the Far Side.

[I DRM Free · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love comics like Calvin & Hobbes, Dilbert, The Far Side, etc… But to put this in the same category as those would be almost sinful.

The jokes were pretty lame in general and I didn’t find anything super funny about any of them in this collection. Maybe 2 or 3 were slightly chuckle worthy but that is about it.

The artistry is also very primitive and bare minimum. I’m really surprised that this became a syndicated comic when there are so many others out there that are far superior to this. My guess is the syndication needed a single panel comic to fill some void and they just grabbed the first one they saw.

It has DRM, so I have to knock a point off for that.

[Robert Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice try, but...

Never laughed at any of these cartoon panels. Obviously influenced by The Far Side, but its a far way to go to reach Gary Larson's level of humor.