Long long ago, when I was free to speak and when I believed many of the things that I read and heard, I did not have access to a computer like these people probably did, I did, however, have Opus.
I acquired this book at a Berkeley Breathed book signing I attended.
When Simon gave me this book, he translated the title into the English "Not Funny" and babelfish confirms this by translating it as "not merry".
I remember a challenging situation I was facing in real life when he pasted a frame from this German comic which was online that seemed to be somewhat the same thing.
When the invitation was sent to GIMP developers to attend this conference, I thought that Akkana was better suited to represent GIMP there. For so many many reasons. 1) she had been printed in a Linux magazine (about something she had done with GIMP) and 2) to the best of my knowledge, her life had remained unchanged since becoming involved with the project.
I did not read this but someone claiming to be the author (with a good humor) signed my Python Pocket Reference and also claimed to have opened the image on the cover up in GIMP.
This has become a very disturbing conversation. I see this image in other places since then and also from before that time.
I arrived at this book signing very early (which is unusual for me), yet I still had to be strong to keep my seat. I sat next to a gentleman who seemed to be well-versed in book signing protocol and I got to listen in on what turned out to be a really good verbal how to, whether I will actually be able to put into practice everything that I had learned then or not is yet to be seen.
I was only familiar with this author because I had a friend who wrote a ircbot which quoted both Terry Pratchett and Good Housekeeping Magazine a combination that still makes me giggle to mention.