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- Francesco Marciuliano
- New York, NY, United Arab Emirates
- Pens the comic strips Sally Forth and Medium Large. Writes for The Onion News Network. Serves as head writer for the PBS series SeeMore's Playhouse (for which his script won two regional Emmys). Was afraid of the color yellow until about age nine. Tans a little too well to be trusted by security.
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A simple grilled cheese sandwich. Something that can be procured anywhere at any time. Nothing too exciting, right?
But what if I put a little butter on the bread before I grilled that sandwich? That would add a little extra zing, right? And what if instead of using plain old American cheese I opted for something a tad more exotic, like Camembert, Stilton or Roquefort? Now we're talking, right?
And what if instead of using bread for my grilled cheese sandwich I used two large blocks of pure platinum? And what if instead of eating the platinum I sold it and then used that small fortune as venture capital for a Beijing-based conglomerate that could take advantage of Chinese local business incentives, cheap labor, lax environmental laws and surging global interest in the fastest-growing economy in the world, thereby ensuring returns in the billions of dollars even in the face of a collapsing U.S. dollar and a massive industrial shift from the technical to service business sector? Wouldn't that be nice?
That's exactly what Francesco Explains It All is. In an endless buffet of indistinguishable tastes, it's the grilled platinum Stilton cheese sandwich that could forever destabilize geoeconomics. Care for a bite?
But what if I put a little butter on the bread before I grilled that sandwich? That would add a little extra zing, right? And what if instead of using plain old American cheese I opted for something a tad more exotic, like Camembert, Stilton or Roquefort? Now we're talking, right?
And what if instead of using bread for my grilled cheese sandwich I used two large blocks of pure platinum? And what if instead of eating the platinum I sold it and then used that small fortune as venture capital for a Beijing-based conglomerate that could take advantage of Chinese local business incentives, cheap labor, lax environmental laws and surging global interest in the fastest-growing economy in the world, thereby ensuring returns in the billions of dollars even in the face of a collapsing U.S. dollar and a massive industrial shift from the technical to service business sector? Wouldn't that be nice?
That's exactly what Francesco Explains It All is. In an endless buffet of indistinguishable tastes, it's the grilled platinum Stilton cheese sandwich that could forever destabilize geoeconomics. Care for a bite?
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15 comments:
Woohoo! I headed here as soon as I read PBS! It really WAS Pastis lo those many months ago. Nice to see some cross-over action there, too, Ces!
Now if we could just get Blondie in a three-way....
I laughed at the PBS strip, and then when I read Sally Forth I laughed ever harder. Was this planned?
Yes it was. Glad you liked it!
Sally's smug face in panel three seems to be saying "Why can't he wear the bag all the time?"
The day finally arrived. I was beginning to lose faith, but you came through. Well played.
When Sally & Ted headed for NY, I was hoping for the crossover. Very funny :)
I was disappointed you didn't sneak Rat into the background of Panel 1 of SF.
Still, good show!
I loved how even the ruthless Rat seems to be a bit intimidated by Sally. And when I got down the page to SF, I decided I wanted to marry both you and Pastis.
So is there like a new cartoonists vs. old cartoonists kind of thing going on in the syndicates these days? Like you, Pastis and Conley vs. well, everyone else. Cause a couple of Pastis' strips I've thought, "they're going to car bomb that guy."
I mean there's a reason they're called "syndicates."
woodrow fan, are you sure he didn't? The concierge looks like he either has Mickey Mouse ears, or is Brack from "This Island Earth".
I love this crossover too much for words.
Just too awesome for words. Sublime in its beauty, really. I love you all for ensuring that you can enjoy at least some of the comics page non-ironicly.
Usually I pass over Sally Forth, though in recent months (with the Ted's unemployment storyline), I've been getting into it -- it's been hitting really close to home, with circumstances in MY house.
But the crossover just made my day. You & Pastis rock.
Well played, sir. Well played.
Great work! I'm glad our paper carries both of your strips.
I live near a medium-small city (Wilkes-Barre, PA) that has not one but two local newspapers. Pearls Before Swine appears in one and Sally Forth in the other. I was so happy to finally see Ted Forth in PBS that I was completely unprepared when I opened the other paper to the funnies and saw the continuation of the scene.
I am imagining that in Earth-5474 (the Sally Forth dimension) Rat appears as a bald, late-meiddle-aged man with glasses and an oddly misshapen head, while in the Pearls Before Swine dimension Ted Forth is three and a half feet tall.
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