Tumblr imagines what would happen if Stephen King wrote comic strips
This whole writing thing seems to have worked out pretty well for Stephen King, all things considered. Largely through novels and short stories, but also occasional screenplays and teleplays, King has become one of the most successful and well-known writers in modern history over the last four decades or so. But imagine for a moment that King’s career had gone in a slightly different direction, and he’d wound up writing jokes for comic strips like Blondie, Garfield, and The Lockhorns instead of dark horror tales. That’s the premise of Stephen King Funnies, a regularly updated series of images at the Tumblr of fantasy author Robert Levy. What Levy has been doing since July 2014 is to take King’s words and marry them to artwork taken directly from the funny pages. Oftentimes, it’s simply a matter of matching a King work with a thematically similar comic. Brant Parker and Johnny Hart’s The Wizard Of Id, for instance, is often about dungeons and imprisonment, so a Shawshank Redemption mashup seems like a natural.