What I’ve Been Reading: The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out

The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out brings together a selection of Adam “Ape Lad” Koford’s take on the crushingly popular online phenom. It takes a hell of a talent to make a combination of internet memes, pop culture references, and outright gleeful idiocy under the premise of collecting a lost comic strip from the early 20th century work, but Koford does it. A lot of the jokes in this volume are ephemeral to be sure, but even something as hackneyed and well-worn as “This! Is! Sparta!” is pulled off with aplomb thanks to fantastic cartooning and an ability to make any reference part of the joke versus serving as a joke on its own.