My rare encounters with Ikea assembly instructions have always made me despair at their misuse of the comics medium (kind of) in an effort to avoid the costs of having translations made of word-based instructions. Particularly fabulous, then, to have those examples of bad comics inspire this instance of very good comics. I bow down, sir.
Thanks! And that's a very lovely comment coming from someone as talented as you Dave. I wasn't sure if anyone at all would 'get it'. Bill Bailey once said 'I never want to get married because I don't want to spend my Sunday afternoons standing in IKEA arguing about spoons.' That always makes me laugh.
Speaking as someone who almost came to blows over a chest of drawers, I loved this. I think you should photocopy it and scatter copies around Ikea to let people know that there's someone out there who understands.
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Your work here is normally fantastic, but this one is brilliant.
Posted by: Christian A. Dumais | November 12, 2009 11:10 AM
My rare encounters with Ikea assembly instructions have always made me despair at their misuse of the comics medium (kind of) in an effort to avoid the costs of having translations made of word-based instructions. Particularly fabulous, then, to have those examples of bad comics inspire this instance of very good comics. I bow down, sir.
Posted by: Dave Shelton | November 12, 2009 12:29 PM
that's genius xx
Posted by: jo | November 12, 2009 04:00 PM
Thanks! And that's a very lovely comment coming from someone as talented as you Dave. I wasn't sure if anyone at all would 'get it'. Bill Bailey once said 'I never want to get married because I don't want to spend my Sunday afternoons standing in IKEA arguing about spoons.' That always makes me laugh.
Posted by: Mike | November 12, 2009 06:09 PM
Speaking as someone who almost came to blows over a chest of drawers, I loved this. I think you should photocopy it and scatter copies around Ikea to let people know that there's someone out there who understands.
Posted by: Liza | November 12, 2009 07:07 PM
Brilliant!
Posted by: Anonymous | November 13, 2009 09:54 AM
As you know I actually enjoy assembling IKEA furniture but I am sad.
Posted by: Stuart | November 13, 2009 01:48 PM
That's just fantastic. Thankfully the last thing I bought from Ikea that needed assembly was just a cardboard box.
Posted by: Alex | November 15, 2009 10:08 AM
When i first saw it I thought, ah, he hasn't bothered to colour this one. Then I smiled. Grinned. And burst out laughing. It's brilliant.
Posted by: kevin cfy | November 24, 2009 12:59 AM