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MacToons: A MacPaint Tribute to the Original Macintosh
A collection of 30 comic strips created in MacPaint from 1984-1987 celebrating the original Macintosh.
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53 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 21, 2016
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May 18, 2017
A Little Bits of the Apple
This short collection of comics, quotes and memories about the early days of the Apple Macintosh, from 1984 to 1986, brought me a lot of smiles. If you're an Apple greybeard like me it will remind you of the days when the Mac's main enemy was IBM and people argued it was just a toy. Instead it turned out to be the beginning of a creative revolution.
This short collection of comics, quotes and memories about the early days of the Apple Macintosh, from 1984 to 1986, brought me a lot of smiles. If you're an Apple greybeard like me it will remind you of the days when the Mac's main enemy was IBM and people argued it was just a toy. Instead it turned out to be the beginning of a creative revolution.
December 5, 2017
Mac
I found this to be an entertaining short book. For any Apple lover this is a must. For all others it is a good read.
I found this to be an entertaining short book. For any Apple lover this is a must. For all others it is a good read.
April 14, 2019
Took me on a trip down memory lane.
November 11, 2022
We're looking at Mactoons: A MacPaint Tribute to the Original Macintosh written by Mackay Bell.
This was published back in 2017, and clocks in at 52 pages with 30 cartoons, and is available at a low, low price. As of writing, it can be ordered new off Amazon for $7.
So! This is a collection of cartoons drawn between 1984 and 1987, and appeared in Macintosh User Group newsletters and on BBSes, making it an early form of web comic. They are compiled here in book form by the original author.
All of the comics were drawn entirely in MacPaint, giving it a digital look I absolutely adore and makes me nostalgic, even if the art style itself is fairly simplistic.
The content of the comics themselves is also nostalgic, as many revolve around hot topics in the Mac community at the time, such as software piracy, desktop publishing, and being a Mac user when most of the world was all about IBM and Microsoft.
The humour itself isn't exactly laugh out loud, but it has its low key charm. I enjoyed myself reading them, which I feel is enough.
I also found it nostalgic (a word I'm using too much) because it felt like a physical form of all those digital comics distributed through HyperCard stacks back in the day.
The book includes a preface and afterword which details the author's discovery of the Macintosh, and how it helped him out of a dead end job and find his spirit of creativity. I enjoyed his story, though he idolises Steve Jobs quite a lot which I found off-putting. I'm really not a fan of the cult of personality that surrounds him. Thankfully, he does make up for it with quotes dotted around the book from some of the many other people that helped make Apple what it is.
The author has also written a series of comedic sci-fi Apple fan fiction novels called Eve's War, about Apple waging a real world war with Google. It absolutely does not sound like my kind of thing, but hey, maybe it's yours!
So, would I recommend this book? Sure! It's not a strong recommendation, but it's cheap and a bit of fun, and would make a great stocking stuffer for an Apple fan at Christmas.
This was published back in 2017, and clocks in at 52 pages with 30 cartoons, and is available at a low, low price. As of writing, it can be ordered new off Amazon for $7.
So! This is a collection of cartoons drawn between 1984 and 1987, and appeared in Macintosh User Group newsletters and on BBSes, making it an early form of web comic. They are compiled here in book form by the original author.
All of the comics were drawn entirely in MacPaint, giving it a digital look I absolutely adore and makes me nostalgic, even if the art style itself is fairly simplistic.
The content of the comics themselves is also nostalgic, as many revolve around hot topics in the Mac community at the time, such as software piracy, desktop publishing, and being a Mac user when most of the world was all about IBM and Microsoft.
The humour itself isn't exactly laugh out loud, but it has its low key charm. I enjoyed myself reading them, which I feel is enough.
I also found it nostalgic (a word I'm using too much) because it felt like a physical form of all those digital comics distributed through HyperCard stacks back in the day.
The book includes a preface and afterword which details the author's discovery of the Macintosh, and how it helped him out of a dead end job and find his spirit of creativity. I enjoyed his story, though he idolises Steve Jobs quite a lot which I found off-putting. I'm really not a fan of the cult of personality that surrounds him. Thankfully, he does make up for it with quotes dotted around the book from some of the many other people that helped make Apple what it is.
The author has also written a series of comedic sci-fi Apple fan fiction novels called Eve's War, about Apple waging a real world war with Google. It absolutely does not sound like my kind of thing, but hey, maybe it's yours!
So, would I recommend this book? Sure! It's not a strong recommendation, but it's cheap and a bit of fun, and would make a great stocking stuffer for an Apple fan at Christmas.
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