Comic Ad of the Week 34: Boris the Bear T-Shirts

This week's comic ad is a tribute to one of my favorite childhood comics: Boris the Bear. The comic was a parody of popular fads; Boris was a bear with anger management issues who would fly off the handle and gun down entire genres of characters just because of their trite and cliched existence.


The first issue showcased Boris' slaughter of anthropomorphic animals, especially the endless ripoffs of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that were so prevalent in the independent comic circuit (and he wasn't too kind to the Turtles themselves, either). I loved the comic, probably because I was so engrossed in the independent comic scene at the time. And part of the appeal of these indy comics was the mature violence... of which Boris the Bear had an abundance.

Boris doesn't seem to be doing all that much these days (although there is a website that has a few recent publications). But that first issue is a classic.