The Five Stages of Heath(cliff)

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  • You might've seen Heathcliff comics floating around on the internet, but I promise you, there is so much more to it than you'd think.
    Happy 49th birthday Heathcliff, here's to 49 more. Or, y'know, whenever Peter Gallagher decides to retire.
    Part 1: • A Tale of Three Kitties
    / @thecamwing did the writing, voice over, audio
    / @invertedhorse did the visuals, animations, editing
    Storyblocks provided the music and SFX
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    -- Chapters --
    0:00 - Intro
    2:15 - Meet the Gallagher Family
    5:03 - The evolution of Heathcliff
    7:40 - Stage 1: DENIAL
    8:50 - Garfield
    10:14 - The anatomy of a newspaper comic
    11:04 - Stage 2: ANGER
    11:50 - Don't think too hard about it
    14:21 - Stage 3: BARGAINING - The birth of Heathcliff.AI
    17:45 - Heathcliff's Twitter community
    18:40 - The SolRad interview
    20:25 - Stage 5: ACCEPTANCE
    22:41 - Outro
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ความคิดเห็น • 79

  • @camwing
    @camwing  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Hey, so you know how I said it "shouldn't take another 7 months" to make part 3?
    Well, I'm still technically right about that, because it'll take a full year. Other things came up, and priorities changed, but part 3 will be out on September 3rd.
    (By the way, the original 'Tale of Three Kitties' video is in the Old Stuff playlist you can find on the channel)

    • @kharijordan6426
      @kharijordan6426 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Run on gages that only make sense if you see them in order. Right?

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Let me guess, is the special guest George Gately?

    • @mr.figgles9482
      @mr.figgles9482 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey! Look at you, overcoming your own expectations!
      I’ve only read Heathcliff from a book, probably 80s or 90s, feels good to know it’s evolved in such a fitting way.
      You make great videos man, cheers 👍

  • @giantenemycrab5596
    @giantenemycrab5596 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Heathcliff is perfectly set to be some archeological mystery in 300 years, like naturally some comics, and thus context will be destroyed, plus there’s Garfield for future archeologists to confuse him with.

    • @millo7295
      @millo7295 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      (the internet talking about the creator of Garfield and John as a different person)
      Do you expect everything to just implode one day?
      The internet is gonna be discovered when our successor civilization accidentally makes devices that connect to the one machine that still survives and they're going to melt

  • @anitamiller8175
    @anitamiller8175 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    It's strangely inspiring that, despite barely being known and having barely any viewers you still make videos of excellent quality. Where others would be disparaged at the low numbers you instead keep making the highest quality videos you can. Truly an admirable feat.

    • @camwing
      @camwing  ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Thank you for the kind words, that means a lot! My philosophy on it is, an audience may or may not come with time. But if it never "takes off," at least we got to make something that's worth watching.

    • @musicenjoyer4203
      @musicenjoyer4203 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@camwing🎉🎉🎉🎉

    • @professionalcreator47
      @professionalcreator47 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@camwing that's pretty good. I've preferred the "I'm gonna make stuff to show off, and if I don't get a lot of attention quickly I'll be mad" approach myself

  • @Wizardo5
    @Wizardo5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    As a wise man once said "Cats rejoice at the garbage ape's approach"

  • @gazeboist4535
    @gazeboist4535 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Heathcliff is just vibes man

  • @SlabBulkhead
    @SlabBulkhead ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The bit about his uncles rejecting his ideas makes me think that, at least on some level, the strip is a meta-joke about the necessarily repetitive nature of humor in a daily comic strip. But it is not a parody, it does not denigrate the medium in any way. Conversely, it revels in it, exalts it. It's a unique comic and I enjoy it every day.

  • @hopcliff
    @hopcliff ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Excellent stuff here. Love the way it's edited/animated. Well done!

  • @stevendorries
    @stevendorries 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    25 minute video about heathcliff? That’s a sub

  • @deskish3930
    @deskish3930 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Amazing video, aprecciated the shout out to heath twitter.

    • @camwing
      @camwing  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Heathcliff Twitter is an integral part of the experience as far as I'm concerned

  • @adamsingleton7771
    @adamsingleton7771 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the video! I found myself I stumbled into Heathposting a little over a year ago with a silly idea (The Heathyorker) and discovered a pure corner of Twitter. The little mental health break of making that edit is always a highlight of my day. So often I'm hitting refresh on The New Yorker website eager to see the second half of the day's absurd puzzle.

  • @IamwhateverIwishtobe
    @IamwhateverIwishtobe ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is awesome and so satisfying

  • @mitilimorres88956
    @mitilimorres88956 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Such a well put together vid (also nice to see heathcliff slowly get some sorta cult following)

  • @Yohoat
    @Yohoat 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Underrated video and channel. Needed this lesson on Heathcliff, I completely wrote the comic off when I saw the meat hats.

  • @jubalcollins8527
    @jubalcollins8527 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    finally part 2

  • @teazen_tea
    @teazen_tea 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As someone who LOVES absurdist humor, i was WHEASING at all of the heathcliff comics esoechally the "dont buy the ham" one, idk why, it just broke something in me and I had to pause to laugh

  • @TheKingOfNachosTM
    @TheKingOfNachosTM ปีที่แล้ว +6

    aw fuck it’s a heathcliff video
    ok after watching the video here’s my dumb take on heathcliff:
    what i like about heathcliff is the simplicity of it.
    that’s pretty much it, heathcliff being a simple comic.
    it’s just one panel in a square squiggly box with a line below that briefly “”explains”” what’s going on the image. for the average reader it’ll just be a silly comic with a orange cat doing strange things, but to an observant reader they will carefully analyse the comic and ask themselves “what do they mean by this?”. now some may just brush it off and then carry on their day, but then there are others that want to seek some meaning behind it and go check the other comics.
    and when they check those comics they will soon find out it’s just the same absurd layout; one panel, one box, one image and one line. just like that, the amount of layers packed into one single panel, for one simple joke is all it needs. sure there’s some running gags there such as the ‘manual’ and the various labeled helmets, but it adds more of the absurdity up into the punchlines. it may not be popular within the masses, but it’s certainly better than a 3 panel copy paste cat smoking a pipe.
    anyways, all we need to know is that children love the MEAT tank and so should you.
    PS: thanks for making me obsess with another orange cat

  • @executivetoad
    @executivetoad 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    you can see the evolution of ‘old comic’ style of editing between this video and the next in the heathcliff series

  • @AIRBORN_EEvEE
    @AIRBORN_EEvEE หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jesus Christ dude. this is an excellent and polished video essay. why does it barely have any views?

  • @stormhought
    @stormhought 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    damn, I always thought heathcliff was a nock-off of Garfield. Good video

  • @muffintime2.024
    @muffintime2.024 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    672 views? This does not feel like a video that should have so few views. What the heck

  • @Quackers_up
    @Quackers_up หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    TH-cam is a strange beast. I was watching a meme compilation and saw that Joe Biden meme and loved it so much that I had to look it up and save it. I wanted to find the one you posted, but didn’t see it, and it didn’t really matter to me since I just wanted the clip itself. The next day I find your channel through the worst games on steam video, and fall down a heathcliff rabbit hole ending up loving the comic strip before ending up here and finding out through a HEATHCLIFF video that the meme I love so much was pretty much the only meme video you’ve ever made. Life is so weird and wonderful sometimes.
    I also just realized that you’re past content was deleted I guess which explains why I couldn’t find your clip

    • @camwing
      @camwing  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not deleted, just unlisted. You can find all my old stuff in the playlists, including the Biden one.

  • @charlieb8735
    @charlieb8735 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I immediately laughed at the first comic. No idea why but the best I could venture was that it’s absurdist nature was much like deep fried memes and other comedic expression that references its genre/format in a way that is simultaneously reductive and insightful. That or my brain is mush and dumb things make me laugh. Either way I’m good with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @Sorflor
    @Sorflor หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is the most unique comedy I've ever seen in a comic.

  • @pikaliottube1388
    @pikaliottube1388 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Man your channel is incredible, I love your work and your ways of explaining things a lot. Keep up the good work! Im gonna go read some comics while you do that...

  • @nekothelad5271
    @nekothelad5271 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are criminally underrated

  • @wariocart35
    @wariocart35 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I’m so excited I found your channel!!! I can’t wait to binge all of it and eagerly await your next upload

  • @velvetpetunia
    @velvetpetunia ปีที่แล้ว +4

    cameig heatclifff :DDD

  • @dinglerer
    @dinglerer ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I didn't know Heathcliff was a psychological horror

  • @esmitothemosquito
    @esmitothemosquito 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I used to read this as a kid I loved it to be honest

  • @taptastico7402
    @taptastico7402 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love how he hints a year before about the video comes out, he was going to do satisfactory!

  • @Balur
    @Balur 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Here because Peter Gallagher tweeted your video!

  • @elodiekat
    @elodiekat 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was when you decided to make the spreadsheet that did ne in. I've also had moments of weird compulsion to catalog to understand something and in hindsight it's the tipping point in a new fixation. I'm really glad I found this series, and Heathcliff is a fair bit more dear to me now because of it.

  • @wemz2782
    @wemz2782 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    criminally underrated

  • @lrgogo1517
    @lrgogo1517 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Here's hoping part 3 has its own thumbnail

  • @melancholyentertainment
    @melancholyentertainment 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very surprised the animated series was barely brought up, loved that as a kid even though I was born two decades after it came out, I had so many DIC cartoon VHS tapes. That’s how I was introduced to Heathcliff.

    • @camwing
      @camwing  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's best to think of them as completely separate entities. The DIC series had very little involvement from the Gallagher brothers, and its current author is trying to treat the comic as its own thing. I've been thinking about doing another video on the TV series specifically, maybe someday

  • @Rhandhali
    @Rhandhali ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow. Strong work.

  • @haruruben
    @haruruben 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Heath cliff, Heath Cliff no one could terrify the neighborhood and heath cliff. Just won’t be undone playing pranks on everyone. I think that’s how this song went,

  • @millo7295
    @millo7295 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Imagine if you actually printed all the editing elements onto real paper and figured out how distracting the changing background is when you actually watch the video in an idle state
    That would be crazy

    • @millo7295
      @millo7295 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Also hello, me

  • @EnjoySackLunch
    @EnjoySackLunch ปีที่แล้ว +3

    NTGAfH&TCCIL brought me here

    • @camwing
      @camwing  ปีที่แล้ว

      Alright, you've piqued my curiosity. My Google search wasn't helpful for those acronyms, what are they?

    • @EnjoySackLunch
      @EnjoySackLunch ปีที่แล้ว

      @@camwing a fb group that bonds over ‘cliff, among other things. Someone was kind enough to share a link to this excellent vid

    • @camwing
      @camwing  ปีที่แล้ว

      Ahh, I'll check it out!

  • @DonRichard9353
    @DonRichard9353 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fun fact: in Spain, the cat had an animated series in which it was called Isidoro.

  • @kayeplaguedoc9054
    @kayeplaguedoc9054 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Maybe it's because I'm high but rhe first strip you showed killed me
    Heathcliff out making new breeds 😂

  • @TheNeraum
    @TheNeraum 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "i wanted to understand (subjective thing) so i made a database" oh hey, alternate me who got into youtubing instead of theatre, whats up

  • @patrickb1439
    @patrickb1439 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I need part 3

    • @camwing
      @camwing  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      We're working on it! But it almost certainly won't be the next video. I've actually been working directly with Peter Gallagher on a video project of his, so I'm hoping I can snag him for an interview in part 3.
      It was originally going to be finished by like, February, but a lot has changed since then. For whatever it's worth, I promise it hasn't been abandoned.

  • @renamon5658
    @renamon5658 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I heard that heathcliff is getting a movie and reboot tv series

  • @ElsCRD
    @ElsCRD 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ham-wing

  • @hopperdown811
    @hopperdown811 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i love me some beef cider

    • @camwing
      @camwing  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's an underrated drink

  • @zoesusername
    @zoesusername 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i think at this point ive been converted

  • @wemz2782
    @wemz2782 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    UR VIDS R SO GOOD ?????????????????????? HELLO?????????????????

  • @obelusyt
    @obelusyt 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Siempre lo he dicho, y lo sostengo: Heatcliff es el rey

  • @CptManboobs
    @CptManboobs 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If a joke doesn't have 15 minutes worth of expository background lore on why its funny, then it isn't actually funny.

  • @DarkOmegaMK2
    @DarkOmegaMK2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out Heathcliff eat the food?

  • @teazen_tea
    @teazen_tea 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why are there so meny pencles at 6:15

  • @luci4053
    @luci4053 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She Heathe on my cliff 'till I Gallagher

  • @chrisdivitto
    @chrisdivitto 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    W Heathcliff

  • @millo7295
    @millo7295 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I don't understand anything of Heathcliff
    And I'm just laughing at the level of closed jokes because I know WHAT Healthcliff is
    But I can't find the actual joke so it's just a "What? Hahh?" type of reaction

  • @Emperor-Quill
    @Emperor-Quill 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Garfield is more famous 'cause it's easily.... digestible...

  • @sirsnowy7986
    @sirsnowy7986 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    song at 16 30?

  • @robertortiz-wilson1588
    @robertortiz-wilson1588 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cat.

  • @chrisdavidmiles
    @chrisdavidmiles ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My favorite part is 23:42

  • @AugustCrossroads
    @AugustCrossroads 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    where the fuck is part one?

  • @yogurtperson
    @yogurtperson ปีที่แล้ว

    Lol
    Also first comment :D

  • @LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat
    @LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat ปีที่แล้ว

    So is Stage 4 Furry or is it Fear? Either way Stage 4 Begins with an F. Anthropomorphic cats and Mel Blanc. Ick🤢 Don't get me Started on Shag Carpets, Cleo is Hotter than Sonya. Garfield is Cooler than Heathcliff. Oh Stage 4 is Depression.

  • @Yohoat
    @Yohoat 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Underrated video and channel. Needed this lesson on Heathcliff, I completely wrote the comic off when I saw the meat hats.