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Brevity is a single-panel newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 comic strip
Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
 created by Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry. Brevity originally began on Comics Sherpa (a site which helps beginning comic strips make their work public over the web). It debuted in 55 newspapers on January 3, 2005. Today, Brevity is published in over 130 newspapers in the USA and Canada. There are currently two published collection of Brevity comics called "Brevity" and "Brevity 2".

The comic strip's name presumably comes from the William Shakespeare quote "Brevity is the soul of wit."

The comic itself is somewhat different from many other comics in papers today, though it bears many similarities to Gary Larson's strip The Far Side
The Far Side

The Far Side is a popular one-panel print syndication comic strip created by Gary Larson. Its surrealism humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, or the search for meaning in life....
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Quotations


Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it can also be a mercy.

Leonid S. Sukhorukov All About Everything Category:Themes

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Mark Twain Hannibal Courier-Post, March 6, 1835

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending--sit down.

Winston Churchill

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Voltaire





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Brevity is a single-panel newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 comic strip
Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
 created by Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry. Brevity originally began on Comics Sherpa (a site which helps beginning comic strips make their work public over the web). It debuted in 55 newspapers on January 3, 2005. Today, Brevity is published in over 130 newspapers in the USA and Canada. There are currently two published collection of Brevity comics called "Brevity" and "Brevity 2".

The comic strip's name presumably comes from the William Shakespeare quote "Brevity is the soul of wit."

The comic itself is somewhat different from many other comics in papers today, though it bears many similarities to Gary Larson's strip The Far Side
The Far Side

The Far Side is a popular one-panel print syndication comic strip created by Gary Larson. Its surrealism humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, or the search for meaning in life....
. It is significantly more contemporary than most other syndicated comics such as The Family Circus
The Family Circus

The Family Circus is a print syndication comic strip created and written by cartoonist Bil Keane and inked/colored by his son, Jeff Keane. The strip generally uses a single captioned panel with a round border, hence the original name of the series, which was changed following objections from Family Circle, the magazine of the same n...
 and the humor is more sparse, in most cases, and often makes obscure cultural references.

Books

There are two collections published by Andrews McMeel Publishing
Andrews McMeel Publishing

Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC is a company which publishes books, calendars, and related toys. It is a part of Andrews McMeel Universal, as is the Universal Press Syndicate....
Title Release Date ISBN
Brevity September 1, 2006
Brevity 2 August 1, 2007


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