The Angriest Dog in the World

The Angriest Dog in the World
"It doesn't get any better than this"
Author(s)	David Lynch
Current status / schedule	Ended
Launch date	1983
End date	1992
Syndicate(s)	LA Reader
Genre(s)	Humor, Absurd humor

The Angriest Dog in the World is a comic strip created by film director David Lynch.

The strip was conceived by Lynch in 1973 during a period when he was experiencing feelings of great anger. First published in the LA Reader, the strip ran from 1983 until 1992.

The strip is introduced with a small caption:

The dog who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl. Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis.

Visually each strip is the same. The first three identical panels feature the black dog growling, tied to a post in a yard by a chain. He is between a tree on the left and one wall of a house with a window on the right. The fourth panel is the same, but at night with a circle of light coming from the house's window.

In a short essay on Lynch's Rabbits, Objectif Cinema notes:

A word balloon appears in one or more of the panels, indicating speech from a member of one of the house's unseen family, either Bill, Sylvia, Pete or Billy, Jr. Usually the speech is in the form of an aphorism or a non-sequitur. Such sayings include: "If everything is real... then nothing is real as well." and "It doesn't get any better than this."