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Two more on Memorial Day?
Two more cartoons that came in this morning, entertained me, but presented some question as to whether I should in fact post them. They were both of a sort that I have posted about before: a Zippy with...
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Threesies
From Bob Mankoff’s How About Never … (see here), p. 255, on Mankoff’s effort to give “aspiring cartoonists feedback” by “developing a mini course in cartoon fundamentals and the psychology of humor.”...
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Assorted cartoons
A recent accumulation: a Scott Hilburn strip with a pun; a Zits on X-free foods; a very meta Zippy; and a Pearls Before Swine with heavy use of implicature. 1. A groaner from Hilburn. (Hat tip to John...
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Book notice: Visual Language of Comics
Arrived yesterday, Neil Cohn’s The Visual Language of Comics: Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images (Bloomsbury, 2013). Central thesis: drawings and sequential images are...
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Cartooning at the diner
Today’s Zippy, with Zippy and Griffy on cartoon styles and men’s fashions: (#1) And, in the third panel, a diner — which turns out to be identifiable, and leads us to some surprising places (Mercury...
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Saturday trio
In today’s comics crop, a Zits on language and the sexes (once again), a Rhymes With Orange with language play, and a Bizarro metacartoon on the visual conventions of the comics: (#1) (#2) (#3) Love...
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Another cross-comic allusion
Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm: (#1) That’s obviously no groundhog, but some kind of crocodile, so the strip works at one level. But that’s not just any crocodile; it’s one of the crocodiles from...
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Return of the word avalanche
Yesterday’s Pearls Before Swine, with a word avalanche: As before in Pearls, the strip goes meta when the cartoonist is taken to task for his word play. Earlier word avalanches in this strip: on...
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The snail days of summer
On the Comics Kingdom blog on Tuesday, for National Escargot Day (May 24th), ten cartoons on snails, all of them new to this blog. Some turn on the snail cartoon meme (having to do with slowness), many...
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Circularity at the dawn of language
Today’s Bizarro takes us back to the early days of language: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.) But then there’s the...
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Cartoony days
(This takes a turn to sexual politics that some — though not, I think, Bill Griffith — might find surprising.) Today’s Zippy offers us some office soap opera between boss (Don) and employee (Ms....
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Geek compounds
Today’s Zippy, returning to Pancake Circus, to trade geek compounds: (#1) Three things: the expressions being traded, which start out in panel 1 as N + N compounds from the tech world, both Ns...
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Paleolithic reporting
… and cartooning — telling a story through pictures in sequence — and story inflation. Today’s Bizarro, with another variant of the caveman cartoon meme: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the...
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Tom Toro
Caught in the May 9th New Yorker, this Tom Toro cartoon: (#1) A little slideshow on time adverbials and the times they refer to, understood figuratively. Toro hasn’t appeared on this blog before, but...
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Two tests in cartoon understanding
From the July 2016 issue of Funny Times, two cartoons that are real tests of understanding, the second more so than the first. From Bob Eckstein, a cartoon that is funny on the grounds of sheer...
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Bob Eckstein
On the occasion of my posting a Bob Eckstein (“bob”) cartoon (#1 in 6/22/16, “Two tests in cartoon understanding”), the cartoonist has friended me on Facebook (earlier Eckstein from 5/30/15, “Earworms,...
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Someone old, someone new
Two cartoons from the latest (July 11/18) New Yorker, by veteran artist Danny Shanahan (in the magazine since 1988) and newcomer Edward Steed (first appeared there in 2013): (#1) (#2) The Shanahan...
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Zippy on a cross-comic run
In the “Ask the Archivist” column on the Comics Kingdom Blog (from King Features) on the 14th: It’s been thirty years since Bill Griffith’s underground comix star Zippy The Pinhead went above ground...
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Gross and flying penguins, Barsotti and flying squirrels
Unearthed in today’s clearing out of material piled up in a cabinet, two New Yorker cartoons: a Sam Gross (published in the 9/4/95 issue) in which a penguin achieves flight, a Charles Barsotti...
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Bozo’s ark
Today’s Bizarro: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 2 in this strip — see this Page.) The cartoon combines two cartoon memes: Noah’s Ark (note the...
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